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I think, when it comes to any mention of stress, that researchers constantly confuse cause and effect. If you are doing a job that you enjoy you are probably not stressed at all or not very much. If you are doing a job that you like but are trying to do it while suffering from severe pain you...

Acceptance and commitment therapy sounds to me like "suck it up and get lost" therapy. Alternatively it also sounds "religious" to me i.e. God gave you these burdens to bear and ACT will help you to do it with a big glowing smile on your face like religious paintings of the saints.

I thought some of the vaccines used for Covid-19 were brand new and experimental. So how can past history be used as a guide to how people will react to them?

@Sly Saint Those experiences in the women's voices section are not remotely surprising. But I don't think they picked the worst ones to print by a long chalk - I've seen surveys asking about actual experiences, and what is said and done to the patient was much worse than the examples in the...

Like MUS perhaps? It's yet another meaningless diagnosis that is so useful to doctors when they want to blame the patient.

Post-Infection Syndrome? Yet another name for ME/CFS? How many names are there in circulation now? Edit : Taking the piss indeed :

Can I go and stamp on the legs of the authors please, make sure they don't get supplied with pain relief, and see how pain interferes with their lives.

That began as a result of a British terrorist trying to set off a suicide bomb while he was on a plane. It had been built into his shoes. Other passengers realised he was trying to set something alight and managed to stop him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid...

Can they stop picking on women in all the "research" of this type - pretty please.

CIDG = Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group

I have a question about the use of placebos in medicine. If I want to buy a supplement in the UK - say - vitamin C, by law it will have a list of all the ingredients on the bottle - active ingredients, fillers, excipients, inactive ingredients etc. I can look them up and research what I'm...

I would always suggest that you make sure your vitamins and minerals are at optimal levels before having planned surgery, particularly iron/ferritin, Vitamin B12 and folate. Severe Neurologic Deficit after Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia | Anesthesiology | American Society of Anesthesiologists Folate...

There is a supplement I take called NAC i.e. N-Acetyl-Cysteine. I read somewhere that it has been available without prescription since the 1960s. It helps a lot of people with severe lung problems. As an ex-heavy smoker I've been using it for about 9 years and it helps to keep my lungs...

I have similar feelings on the subject of supplements although, with a few rare exceptions, I tend to stick to vitamins and minerals. I've decided against trying L-Carnitine though, because of this comment : Source : https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1026/l-carnitine

That doesn't surprise me. I usually see it on various forums where the occasional oddball turns up.

There was more to my problem than anything diet-related. I'd lost 21 lbs in about three weeks because I was so very ill.

The man is being a bastard, dangling a carrot in front of sick people, without saying where to get the carrots from.

Link : https://theferret.scot/claim-100000-have-long-covid-mostly-true/ Article continues...

Regarding anxiety and depression in children... A personal anecdote. I had major surgery in the first half of the 1970s. I'd been extremely severely ill for a month before the doctors decided there really was something wrong with me and operated on me. After I recovered sufficiently I was...

I don't think so. I think in the UK (for boosters) it is just a month.