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Quick question the answer to which I may have missed: why did the CDC decide not to use the WHO test for COVID-19 that everybody else is using? If South Korea seems to be doing fine with it, why didn't we use it?

This. I may or may not have had ME as early as 10 years old and one of the problems I developed about then was with sequential tasking, which made algebra and up very frustrating. I would get the concepts--indeed, very much enjoyed geometry and could explain the concepts to those around...

I was in the middle of studying Arabic and Hebrew in graduate school and my problems with short-term memory following the surgery that triggered-full blown ME was the first symptom that something was very wrong. I've used Duolingo to keep up with my French but...uh...not very effectively. To be...

This. The fact that he didn't is a sort of malpractice. And with regard to the topic of this thread, the IAPT is including a lot of poorly trained therapists who are getting a lot of mixed signals about what CBT can and cannot do. Which is a recipe for a great deal of harm both physically and...

Oh and I forgot to add, showing those bastards in the other medical disciplines that psychiatrists are just as "medical" and "scientific" as they are!

What was she wanting him to help her with? Did she go to this therapist because she was hoping he would help her tinnitus? [Note: I have tinnitus and know that it is usually idiopathic so there are no treatments and that it can be a struggle to learn to live with constant high-pitched sound.]

Oh, I don't know...accumulating publications? A steady career? A knighthood? A house in West London? A plum job working for the Duchess of Cambridge? A post as head of the Royal Society of Medicine? :p

Depends on the CBT. Good CBT can simply be about providing you with tools to manage emotional distress. I would think advanced cancer could cause some significant emotional distress. Exactly. I had CBT for depression and found it tremendously helpful. Indeed, while I'm sure I would have...

LOL - I got that one wrong because I got confused about it being a false statement.

I've seen him post in the past as part of the "CFS is not True ME" crowd. Though I'm not sure what specific information he's talking about.

I thought Lenny Jason had a good way to address this with the question, "if you felt better tomorrow, what would you do?" In a person with depression, he or she will likely answer, "er...I dunno." A person with ME is gonna give a laundry list of stuff we'd do if we woke up feeling better...

@Woolie: Do you mind if I ask if you had periodic fevers? I had a sort of relapse-remit flu-like thing going on starting at menarche at 10 yrs old but surgery on my knee and ankle at 26 is what left me completely disabled. Got really sick several years ago from a DTAP jab (have avoided flu...

This. The worst increase in my entire symptom complex was during a week on Augmentin for SIBO that included moderate diarrhea (every 2 hours or so for a couple of days). Sleep, sensory sensitivities, prostration -- all worse, along with something new to boot: seizure-like episodes that have...

Yeah, I quit trying to read this paper when I couldn't see what the sample size was within the first few paragraphs. I couldn't figure out if it was me or just that shitty a paper. Thanks for letting me know it wasn't me. ;):rolleyes:

In my city (Portland OR - so not in the UK) we have a practice that does only home visits. I wonder if it might be worth NHS putting together home-visits only surgeries? For many years I was on Coumadin, and I remember asking my clinic what would happen if I was too ill to make it to clinic to...

Yes, as a kid I got the same thing. "Growing pains" or that it was psychosomatic. Thankfully as an adult, my PCPs (aka GPs) have always taken my pain seriously. They just don't know what's causing it. Diagnoses have ranged from Fibromyalgia to Peripheral Neuropathy to hEDS to Chronic Pain...

While doing some research on the Interwebz on how to limit the ill-effects of being bedbound, I came across this article for nurses on a site called Nurselabs on how to approach patients who have limited mobility, particularly those who are bedridden. There were two things I found interesting...

Random thoughts (beyond "oh FFS" and problems others have already mentioned): Chronic pain is not the same as acute pain. And the VAS is mostly pointless with chronic pain. Helpful for triaging acute pain but by and large measure function is more important with regard to chronic pain. How...

Yeah, the more I thought about @Simon M 's post, the more it made me think of all the weird data my body gives off daily. Neither me nor my doctor would know what to do with that information. Indeed that has been the conclusion of I've come to with regard to the little bit of data I have...

I had frequent cold/flu from 10 years old onward -- enough so that I usually missed about 20+ days of school each year. Looking back now, I can't tell if I was getting the flu or a cold that often or was just experiencing PEM. My flu-like days were just that, flu-like. Chills, prostration...