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I think there is a subtle reference to the " arc-de-cercle" which was the arched back that Charcot decided was the cardinal sign of hysteria. http://www.richardwebster.net/freudandcharcot.html "Freud, Charcot and hysteria: lost in the labyrinth" by RICHARD WEBSTER

They don't use paired sera in virology any more. They are only used if the first test is negative but the patient is still showing symptoms so a later test is done. For quite a few years now, antibody tests have been done from single blood samples for Hepatitis ABC and HIV as well as others.

Unfortunately, they have done quite a few studies now which show structural changes but they claim these are changes which make a person liable to conversion disorder. They also use them as proof that to all the things they claim as FND from irritable bowel disease to seizures are the same...

I don't know if the survey was ever published, it was in the US but they were looking at weight. I was going to do it, but they asked what your weight was. It was so stupid. My weight when I became ill is the important thing not what it is after decades of illness and age is a factor too since...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15041034 2004 Acetylcholine mediated vasodilatation in the microcirculation of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Spence VA1, Khan F, Kennedy G, Abbot NC, Belch JJ.

I was involved in a study with many years ago. Since I could not influence the results the technician explaned what was happening during the test. He dripped acetylcholine on my arm and then used a doppler machine to see how much the blood vessels opened and how long it took for the...

I don't know, but all these things are packed in sterile conditions. If they weren't, people would get gastric symptoms. Samples are taken from all foods and tested for contamination. Even if the tests are for bacteria, people are covered in them. If conditions were unsanitary things like...

I don't now if this is a good thing. Great if they were now thinking about ME as we know it is but if they are just calling it the same as us while using the same old ideas but now making me synonymous with chronic fatigue. That will work against us and cause even more confusion and distress...

Maes seemed to be a supporter of ME. I checked the list of his papers in MEpedia. I did not look at them closely, but the ones I remember which were about why CBT is useless and immune problems in ME were all dated before 2015 when he developed his theory of Neuro-Inflammatory and Oxidative...

My autistic grandson has perked right up :) His 6 foot distance from people walking the dog is the new normal and no one is "being helpful" and encouraging, read nagging him to do things he isn't comfortable about. (The other side of the family is not understanding about autism!)

Just some thoughts reading all this. Firstly, here in Scotland health care workers are being tested. Before all this started, coronavirus was tested as part of a general screening that included flu and other respiratory viruses. If the test was positive and it was clinically necessary the sample...

Yes, but where can you buy a mask? Plenty on amazon but delivery is by end of April, end of May or June!

Just from being involved with the ME community since the 1980s, I get no sense that ME is associated with the severity of the initial viral infection. Post Viral Fatigue Syndromes are related to severity and some may lead to ME but for many people ME is much more insidious, gradually getting...

Labs are used to getting large numbers of specimens, I don't see why there should be contamination to give false positives. Handling these are not different from any others. Scotland has been testing medical personnel for over a fortnight. My daughter drove up in her car to one of the drive...

The BPS people now refer to PEM a lot but they do not mean what happens with ME, just a generic I feel bad after I do too much and it takes me longer than it used to to get over it. Lucy Chu who did a comparison of what people with ME feel after exertion and how other people see it, refers to...

So people with an imaginary neurological disease have worse neurological function that people with imaginary diseases of other parts of the body. Groundbreaking. Oh and FND is the same as conversion disorder. :banghead::banghead::banghead:

The ignorance is staggering. Many of the people with ME DO NOT EXPERIENCE FATIGUE!!! I had paediatric ME but my first presentation to the medical system was an inability to pass urine (a common symptom in the Royal Free epidemic) I did not volunteer to then that I also had episodes of...

Since many of us worsen over time from moderate to severe, say, it is not a stretch to consider that gradual onset is actually a sudden onset which deteriorates from very mild. I wonder if hypometabolism could be a protective response to the disease rather than the disease itself. I have...

I have no idea where I would buy a mask - no chance of being able to make one. I've seen pictures of stalls selling them in the far east and that is maybe the biggest difference, not attitude. I did look on amazon but they are all delivery by late April.

Yes, it is strange that no one is reporting this much. The BBC is making a big thing this morning about NHS England starting to test NHS staff so that they can get back to work if they are negative but Scotland has been using drive through testing stations since last Monday. My daughter is a...