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ATOS nurse continues PIP assessment as epileptic claimant bleeds from mouth after multiple seizures From the article: It's reassuring to know that ATOS does not discriminate among conditions, and that PWME are not being singled out for abuse. :rolleyes:

I have no direct experience with the UK system, although I have read about it plenty here. Some elements sound very much like the US Social Security disability system, with which I have had a lot of experience. Since they offered you a paper hearing, and gave you no reasons for changing to an...

That paper was published in 1995, so these effects have apparently been known for quite a while. There was also a similar paper describing these effects published in 1994. It's actually more than n=1. Dr. Jay Goldstein discovered in the late 1970s and early 1980s that cimetidine (Tagamet)...

My father, my sister, and I have had a very similar type of pain for many years. The only difference is that we don't have pain in our jaw. For us, the problem is a pinched nerve between C5 and C6; and for us, there's apparently a genetic component here. Probably not, if it gets proper...

What you describe is actually not practicing CBT to the letter. You are describing something known as "rumination-focused cognitive behavioral therapy" (RFCBT), which is a therapy that is separate and distinct from classical CBT, although it certainly contains elements from CBT. Yes, this...

I just typed "cognitive behavioral therapy" into PubMed and got over 79,000 papers. A quick perusal of a few of them showed that all the ones I looked at were positive, and based on my past knowledge of the literature, I think it's safe to assume that the vast majority of these papers are...

Yes, these are the facts as I understand them. It seems almost certain, based on recent history, that this directive has the approval of the president (either implicit or explicit), both because it accords completely with views that he has stated many times, and importantly, because he publicly...

As an American who has lived in the US for my entire 65 years (except for a number of trips abroad, including several to the UK), I can assure you that diversity as used in the US is not a code word for "poor" or "black". Diversity in this context simply means a diverse group of people, and...

Note that she does not use just NLP. Oh, no! Such a "soul destroying" illness requires her special blend of NLP, CBT Stress Management, Hypnotherapy, Visualisation, Psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI), Life Coaching and more! To think where I could be now if I had only had the right Life...

Medscape has a good introductory article on SIRS. From the article: Based on these criteria, I qualify as having SIRS typically several hours a day. In the past, I've had all four symptoms for extended periods. I expect that I have plenty of company here in this regard. I also found the...

Well, of course - it's magic! Everybody knows that magic doesn't work if you tell other people about it. :p:rolleyes:

Admin edit: Off topic text discussing adverse effects of Rituximab has been moved to this post in a new thread - https://www.s4me.info/index.php?threads/discussion-of-patient-self-reported-adverse-effects-of-rituximab.1242/#post-20907 I'm sure it is. The ICC definition for ME replaces "PEM"...

[ETA: The following post is not directed to @Gingergrrl specifically, but simply to the issues that she has raised, especially since they have been raised by others as well.] I think that the key is in the following quotes by Whitney, all dated June 12, 2013, and contained in @dannybex's first...

For others who wish to follow this discussion, versions of the full paper can be found here and here. A version of the crucial Table 1 that may be more readable can be found here. This is standard practice for the great majority of ME/CFS studies; most of the rest use the Oxford criteria. Do...

The author is a layperson who is not a specialist in ME/CFS. Her choice of words here is regrettable. However, in every definition of ME or ME/CFS, fatigue is a requirement. So it stands to reason that medications that can reduce fatigue may be useful in treating ME/CFS. But of course it...

While higher ammonia levels could produce the reported symptoms, I would expect that such high levels would produce other symptoms as well. Instead, when I hear the symptoms of muscle cramps and panic attacks, what comes to mind for me is a magnesium deficiency. A high protein diet may enhance...