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Interesting article on how doctors made the decisions they did on how to treat Covid. Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56508369 I liked the last paragraph in particular : I have never understood why trials took so long. Based on this article it seems there was no particular reason...

:emoji_joy: Thanks for the explanation. :D But my brain is still interpreting what I see as something incorporating a chicken's foot. :emoji_blush:

Very, very interesting article on asthma, thank you. Of particular interest to me, because my husband is asthmatic and struggled for years to get proper treatment. Nobody denied he had asthma (that I'm aware of), they just wouldn't treat him with the standard treatment. He eventually got...

I'm not clear what the above phrase means. "Functional" means that something is, effectively, made up. So how can imaging show up something imaginary?

I'm being stupid here. Were the woman's loss of emotions due to the MS or the anti-depressants? I know almost nothing about MS.

I have to admit, being a Brit of a certain age I cannot intellectually "feel" what body temperatures are in celsius, and what they might mean. I have to convert to fahrenheit for it to be meaningful. The highest temperature I've ever knowingly had in my life was 105.5 F, which is 40.8 C. If...

A similar idea was mentioned (I won't say "discussed" - the article was "reporting" not "journalism") in a BBC article yesterday. Middle-aged women 'worst affected by long Covid', studies find (The article and related paper is discussed here Physical, cognitive and mental health impacts of...

Title : COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas Subtitle : The cost of not addressing the global obesity crisis Dated : March 2021 Link : https://www.worldobesityday.org/assets/downloads/COVID-19-and-Obesity-The-2021-Atlas.pdf This document is very long - 227 pages " Foreward Welcome to our...

I found two possible listings for Turkingtons as directors in the Companies House website - it may be a true family business with siblings, cousins and children involved : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07192064/officers...

Just as a suggestion... I've read that many people with ME have proven low cortisol. I don't know the biochemical connection between cortisol and adrenaline, other than they are both produced by the adrenal glands and are both stress hormones. But perhaps if you have a low level of either of...

I used to get hypnic jerks. I also had Exploding Head Syndrome. Thankfully I appear to have aged out of both these conditions, although I think that improving both these conditions may have been speeded along by improving my nutrient levels, something I did by myself without the aid of doctors...

Low body temperature is extremely common in people with hypothyroidism. In fact I'm sure I read that it used to be a red flag for the condition decades ago, just like high cholesterol was. But nowadays doctors dismiss the idea that low body temperature is of any relevance because it occurs in so...

I'm not sure what this man is suggesting. That all the effects of ME are mental?

Staying straight-faced and still when in pain can be taught, up to a point, if you start early enough.

I've read that Devine article three or four times now. Each time I reread it I am struck afresh at how awful, nasty, and mean it is. It's as if the man is throwing his toys out of his pram in one almighty tantrum. The man seems to be terrified that his new career is going to fizzle out just as...

This paper appears to me to be largely re-inventing the wheel. This effect of estimating pain to be less in women than in men has been demonstrated before. There is also an assumption that women believe themselves to be in great pain more readily than men because they are more likely to be...

From Post #3851 Following quote from PolyBio Research Foundation microbiologist Amy Proal I notice from the above quote that there was no mention of "Women are very anxious" being challenged. When I consider my life of a) being a woman, and b) going to school and work with women and c) being...

Participants expressed fear that certain symptoms would be perceived negatively by their GP, and described selectively disclosing symptoms to avoid symptoms being dismissed or attributed to a potentially stigmatizing condition. I've done this a lot - tried to explain my symptoms in a way that...

If "energy impairment" becomes common as a phrase to describe symptoms it will soon have lots of negative cultural baggage attached to it. It's inevitable. Doctors' euphemisms change every so often because they feel they need words and phrases to fob patients off with, so once a substantial...

From post #1... I've experienced all those for decades, although the cysts did disappear as a result of hysterectomy quite a few years ago. Didn't stop the pain though. One thing they didn't mention is that extremely heavy periods are common with endometriosis too. Women who are iron...