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I suspect that the Mayo Clinic is so convinced of their protean powers to diagnose anything, that they are even more convinced that there must be a psychological explanation when they can't. Humility is not likely their long suit.

From the climax of the classic, 1951 sci-fi/horror film "The THING From Another World." The soldiers prepare to confront the murderous, alien "THING." Lt. McPherson: "You know, I've got a worry.... What if that THING can read our minds?" Lt: Dykes [hefting an axe]: "Then he's going to be real...

Usually, videos like this wind up being fairly equivocal, but not this time...

Dr. Hanson @ 3:33 [bolding mine] Perhaps it's time to declare that there is a biomarker.

I'm pretty sure that the subtext of searching for "perfectionism" in ME/CFS is really based on the idea that patients are regarding minor limitations in their physical function as "imperfections" that are dwelt on too much - thus preventing the patient from "adapting" to them, rehabilitating...

Well, one thing I've noticed is that when the veins in my wrists can no longer be discerned, my blood pressure is significantly higher than when those veins are prominent.

I'm pretty sure that this report is from 2015. Although it is only dated "Tue, Feb 10", 2/10/18 was a Saturday, but 2/10/2015 was a Tuesday - and was the day the IOM report was released. The report also talks as though the IOM report has just been released. Still, an interesting look back. I...

Fascinating stuff! Here is a thread that shows how people can help support Llewellyn King's work on "ME/CFS Alert." https://www.s4me.info/threads/an-appeal-for-help-with-llewellyn-kings-me-cfs-alert-videos.2487/

In the teleconference, Dr. Lipkin said this: [From the NIH transcript] By "the findings that came out of UC San Diego" I assume he's referring to Dr. Naviaux's metabolomics study that resulted in this paper in 2016. Metabolic features of chronic fatigue syndrome

Well, it's good to see that his views are unbiased by personal experience, unlike like some of those pesky members of the IOM panel. :rolleyes:

I can't decide if it's more like "Altered States" (1980), where other modes of consciousness actually can rearrange your molecules... ...or maybe it's more like a World of Pure Imagination. But I always defer to a Higher Authority....

I tend to get tinnitus about twice a year, in late spring and early fall. It usually only lasts a week or two. Sometimes, it lasts somewhat longer. Because of the pattern, I think it must be related to allergies. It "sounds" like a very high pitched sine wave (~7 kHz). It's usually only in one...

They produce a handy flier entitled: Advice for Researchers Experiencing Harassment http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Advice-for-researchers-experiencing-harrassment-2013.pdf

A couple of quotes from Melvin Ramsay, circa 1986. This is exactly how it started for me. In my case it was not "spinning" vertigo, but rather a failure of the balance system which made me feel "drugged," intoxicated, or had had food poisoning - sort of as if I was seeing the world through a...

I like how at the new link to the Telegraph article SW isn't even mentioned in the caption to the photo, making him look like some random, wacky guy. Ultimately, he's mentioned at the very end of the article, but, if you don't already know what he looks like, you still don't know who that wacky...

Yes, and the older woman is Ruth Gordon. She won an Academy Award for this performance and was nominated for Golden Globes for this and "Harold and Maude" (1971).

You're all so suspicious! Show me one example where things turned out badly when a gregarious older person insinuated themselves into the life of a pregnant young woman by offering health advice! : )

I'm having trouble figuring out their priorities...

Have they done any vision tests? Vision and balance are fairly intertwined. In a neurological workup I'm pretty sure they would have checked for nystagmus, but it's a simple test you could easily have not noticed. There's another simple test done in an eye exam where they cover and quickly...

I came across this from "A Hummingbird's Guide to M.E." (2006) [ About 35 years ago, I had spinal fluid drawn about a month after onset. I'm guessing they didn't do tests for oligoclonal bands back then since there was no "box" for it on the lab report. There was a mildly elevated protein...