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One I saw many years back was to drink hydrogen peroxide. :facepalm:

How can any sane decent human look at this and not see an obviously appallingly cruel and easily preventable disaster? :mad:

I get it in one sense, that they need to be sure the mask the patient is wearing is new and not contaminated. I worked in a hospital for a few years before getting ME*, including with a fair bit of contact with patients, and they don't always make the job easy. *Which is why I am not afraid to...

Given current state of knowledge, I don't know (and neither does anybody else) if PEM is unique and definitive to ME. But even if it isn't, then it is damn close. At the very least it is likely to pick up most ME patients, even if it drags in a few others. The real problem with PEM is the lack...

'We don't know. We got nothing.' The only advance in FND ever is their ability to market it to the gullible, the desperate, and plain old cynical.

Many jobs have strict limits on hours worked and scheduling, like commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, etc. Remove the arbitrary presumption about the causal role of "prolonged stress', and what they are describing could easily be the features and consequences of trying to live with the...

Elmo :D

I propose a new psychiatric disorder: Repetitive Re-Labeling Syndrome (ReReLaS). Defined by the patient's obsession with generating an endless flow of new names and acronyms for currently unexplained diseases, in order to avoid facing up to their complete lack of understanding of those...

Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) and Clinical Global Impression (CGI) both use subjective ratings by the clinician of the patient's status. So the clinicians are self-rating the legitimacy and efficacy of their own subjective interpretation?

re vaccine Still not back to normal. Some headaches, sore across the shoulders/neck/upper back, and sleep is worse than usual. But continuing to improve, and most of the way there, I think.

This.

Well put.

Anything less than a well fitting N95/P2 standard is basically a waste of time, IMHO.

Thanks for that, @Dx Revision Watch.

Very. ––––––––– No possibility that the diagnosis and/or therapy are inappropriate, even flat out wrong? That would be a very good explanation for lack of therapeutic response. But no, the expert couldn't possibly be wrong. It must be the patient.

Exactly. What are the causal relationships?

All adults are eligible at this stage, I think. How many of them take it up remains to be seen. Also, early evening here now and I am feeling considerably better. Not back to normal, but at this rate should be there in a day or so.

Easiest way to pretend there is no problem is to just not collect any evidence of it in the first place. Unfortunately reality doesn't work that way.

The latest booster is being rolled out here in Australia, and I had mine yesterday (Pfizer version), which is my fifth Covid vax overall and my third booster shot (and second Pfizer). My worst reaction so far. Had a rough night and feeling very sore and tired today. Already had two extra sleeps...

Turing got it wrong. It wasn't how smart and human-like machines could become. It was how dumb and machine-like humans could.