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I can hear Inspector Clouseau now, "Swimming causes ME/CFS. Mystery sol-ved."

I'm not sure if your question is metaphorical, or if it is about Borrelia per se, or just a general one that captures the inadequacies of govt infectious disease research. It's not your question - it is my brain which is sucking for air right now, so I apologize. Of course, they weren't looking...

If it were an accident, and they realized they could not get that genie back into the bottle, yes. Deny, deny, deny. Then it became marginalize the victims. Perhaps what they did not anticipate was the impact capitalism would have. The rush to score big $'s with a vaccine was incredible - as...

Newby is a good reporter. The book reads like a long article from Time Magazine. The logic is measured and even-handed. Much of this was occurring during the height of the Cold War, until Nixon purportedly ended it in 1969. We wanted multiple contingencies. We eyed bioagents that could kill...

@chrisb, I've tried to steer clear of this kind of stuff for 15 years, but some of it is hard to just pretend didn't happen. Some you know to take with a grain of salt - but STILL you look a little closer at. For instance, Willy Burgdorfer is on tape saying he believes Lyme Ct was the result of...

As far as I know, it does (if you're talking about Newby's "Bitten"), at least in terms of his work history, e.g. vaccine and bioweapons. I found it a relatively easy read, and these days I have issues reading. I broke it up over many days, so that helped. If you're looking for a psych...

Newby has written elsewhere that there is a back-story to that Pillar article which ran in 2016. She had accrued bioweapon's data surrounding the key researcher responsible for discovering what eventually became known as Lyme disease, i.e., Willy Burgdorfer. She was concerned, though, that her...

Topaki. :) Peter Sellers did the Pink Panther series. Ustinov was in Topaki when that line was used.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/18/18677511/lyme-disease-diagnosis-health Good article, highlights some of the controversies, peels back the onion a bit more.

The short answer is No. The other short answer is Yes. There are purist stances on both. Stuff in between, too. It's so convoluted. It boils down to things like definitions and assumptions and subsets and far, far too many hypotheticals. But it's fodder for good discussions, at the least...

A couple of quick observations: We are in dire need of accurate Lyme diagnostics for the 1st 30 days following a bite. Since it takes roughly that long to galavanize our immune response to Lyme, the more direct the testing is, the better. Accordingly, these efforts are important for that...

There is no set rule that I am aware of. Too little is known. But based on the patients on the channelopathy forum I have read about, it's often the next day or so. The difference may be when food is involved, right? So if you are hyperkalemic, and you ingest something with too much potassium...

And writing with skill and style like most professional writers I know would sell their souls to do.

It's more like episodes, I guess. But it's payback for overdoing things, similar to PEM. With channelopathies, in addition to physically doing too much and triggering an attack, eating the wrong things can elicit a sudden exacerbation of symptoms. Muscle pain, muscle weakness to the point of...

I read the study yesterday or the day before, but I have already pretty much forgotten it. I lump channelopathies together - I guess because my wife belongs to a channelopathy forum of sorts, and I read it. It has potassium channelopathies and calcium channelopathies. Maybe TRP ones too, but I...

They are very similar clinically. I know people who have been diagnosed with ME that turned out to have a channelopathy. My wife pretty much satisfies the criteria for ME, but all her symptoms can be ascribed to her channelopathy. Of course, her particular form of PP has characteristics that...

Would prefer using "disease" over "illness." Thankful for their efforts, regardless.

"...50-75% of patients with CFS had a lifetime history of Major Depressive Disorder..." :rofl:

Two sentences, one from the article, one from the study itself, for me stood out: "..Genetic variations in TRP ion channels have been previously reported by NCNED in immune cells from CFS/ME patients..." and "...Numerous and significant anomalies including genetic, proteomic, and functional...

Does it note "unusual for age", @erin ? That's the kicker for mine (MRI); they tell you it's not kosher.