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  1. Alvin

    CFSAC charter has not been renewed. Solve, #MEAction and Occupy ME all call for action.

    Then this is another one to ask Francis Collins
  2. Alvin

    #MEAction: NIH Update: Collins Will Meet With #MEAction Representatives!

    I didn't know she is not doing well right now, my sympathies.
  3. Alvin

    #MEAction: NIH Update: Collins Will Meet With #MEAction Representatives!

    This is excellent news. @JenB I hope your ready for anything during the meeting, i would expect him to claim they are already doing a great deal, they don't have funding, they are not getting applications and they have big plans and so on. I would suggest brainstorming everything he is likely to...
  4. Alvin

    Scientists found brain’s internal clock that influences how we perceive time

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/scientists-found-brains-internal-clock-that-influences-how-we-perceive-time/
  5. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    This leads to them doing the same thing, playing both sides with the odd nod to reality. If they want our accolades they can reject alternative facts in their entirety and apologize for their blatant errors. Then i will recognize their good deed.
  6. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    This seems to be a boilerplate response meant to postpone having to actually answer to anyone or make meaningful changes. So instead of stonewalling us yet again when exactly is AfME planning on listening to the patients it claims to represent and stop playing both sides?
  7. Alvin

    What do we want ME care to look like?

    It would be interesting to write up our own ME care guide. There are probably many out there already but if none are as good as what we could write then it would be worth pursuing.
  8. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    Learning from the quotes above this one would be a bare start What is it your afraid of that you have to play both sides and only move slightly when your position is completely and utterly untenable? An organization that claims to be a patient centered one has no business harming patients then...
  9. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    Much like "aim to reduce and stabilise symptoms before any appropriate increase in activity levels is attempted" they are having to cede ground on playing both sides and they don't want to.
  10. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    My bad, i didn't realize there was a link in your reply (f lux software orangeing out the screen) I agree but trust is earned, not given away. I look forward to more then the first step in that journey.
  11. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    Yet it took considerable pressure to get to todays statement. Not science. They play both sides with statements like "Some people tell us that they find GET and/or CBT useful" then mentioning criticisms. There are other examples but this one is off the top of my head. Playing both sides doesn't...
  12. Alvin

    Action for ME: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. [position statement]

    Just recently they were defending the indefensible now they have seen the light... Sure. :whistle: This sounds like damage control.
  13. Alvin

    Sleep deprivation for PwME

    No problem
  14. Alvin

    Sleep deprivation for PwME

    Poor sleep quality is a hallmark of this wretched condition. The specific abnormalities often vary from person to person but i can relate to some of what your wife goes through and go through other different ones that also are likely ME related. Same here I know exactly what you mean on this...
  15. Alvin

    Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study (Lancet)

    I am unable to read the whole study but meat is not the only game in town, what if it were replaced by more vegetables instead. Also what meat or what vegetables, if the predominant meat was say pork but turkey is the ticket then this study would end up suggesting that carbohydrates are superior...
  16. Alvin

    Simon Wessely: ‘ECT is in my own advance directive’

    Of course they do, it would be like asking PACE pushers if they agree about prescribing CBT/GET to ME/CFS patients. They will certainly agree. Indeed https://www.nature.com/articles/35002188
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