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I bet Susie Dent could come up with some corkers. If I had an account, I might even ask her! She's on Twix as @susie_dent, for anyone who doesn't know her.

I'd have preferred "criticisms of the guideline discussed in this paper are balderdash", but it's still good to read!

I think it is. And far from being a retreat from their previous position, which people have speculated, I see it as a way to legitimise GET by (a) calling it something else and (b) removing some of the pressure to keep increasing the activity level. I think this way because it's still an...

That's a key question, and with relatively new techniques it's often the case that no one can answer it with much authority (although some might pretend they can).

Whereas it's more like my neighbour's toddler grandson. When shown his favouritest soft toy, she said "Oh, you've got a green dragon!". He then had a half hour tantrum because he didn't want it to be a green dragon, he wanted it to be a blue one. There's no reasoning with it.

That was Paul Garner, who said he developed ME after Covid and then recovered from it very quickly. He said he did things that led to his recovery, others may think differently. I don't know about its effect on ME, but free diving's* very unlikely to improve peripheral oxygen saturation. If the...

Like powerchairs, I guess. A really solid, capable new chair is north of £7K, but if it's what you need to be able to get out and do the things you enjoy, it's completely worthwhile. I only pay about £2K for secondhand ones, which is probably comparable to some e-bikes. It's still a lot of...

I can't balance on a bike either since my ME got worse, but in my case the ability to focus on the road isn't so much to do with balance—it's more about the exertion of pedalling to stay upright. If I'm sitting in a comfortable car seat, I can drive an automatic car as well as anyone (albeit for...

This is another potential area of confusion. SF36 is a general scale; it's not specific to upper body vs lower body function, but this can matter in ME. It's also likely to include orthostatic intolerance as a factor that causes some of the participants' disability. Yet for people with enough...

Yes, mine go from 92% to 98% regardless of how I'm feeling. They're not even affected in an obvious way by asthma flares. I had six months of it after a neighbour turned over a compost heap, releasing such an enormous cloud of fungal spores that the lawn clippings the council gardening team put...

Yes, I've done it for many years because the polling station near my former house was a school that had slightly rubbish wheelchair back then. Our ballot papers seem to be sent out quite a long way in advance, so there's plenty of time to post them.

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@bobbler, the colour palette has changed completely in Windows since I last used it. It has settings called themes, which are accessed from Page Layout > Colours. The option to create your own set is at the bottom of the pop-out—it's called Customise Colours. You don't seem to get the colour...

I haven't used Windows for 10 years, so I won't have seen the latest upgrade, but I worked it out on a Windows machine. I've never used conditional formatting, I simply click on the Fill Colour button. This brings up the palette: I remember it looking slightly different on my work computer...

My old friend knows him quite well, and says that as well as being a good communicator, he's pretty expert at being a thorn in the side of people who like easy compromises. As his party has a chance of forming the next government, his appointment as a champion for ME might be a smart move.

The whole thing's arse-about-face anyway. They shouldn't be focusing entirely on improvements, at least not in anyone who's been ill for more than two to three years. Real improvement is quite infrequent, so the aim and the measurements should first and foremost be about stability. Any...

You can. I work on a Mac, so my screenshots and some options might look slightly different to the way they do on Windows, but there's rarely a big difference in the actual approach. Click on the fill colour picker and choose More Colours. A palette like this pops up: Choose the middle one...

@bobbler, are you using MS Excel? If you are, you don't have to use the automatic colour sets. You can set the RGB balance and black level to anything you like. It's the More Colours option, then click on the colour wheel. (Sorry if you already know this.)

From @MSEsperanza: Apologies if that has already been posted—only able to skim but had a quick glance at some references in the paper and saw that at least in one participant-rated outcome measure, the item "minimal change" comprised all three: “a little better” and “a little worse" and "no...

Sounds much better, but what about when they get to the point that they're no longer making management decisions? It's possible I've misunderstood some of the gobbledegook in the original text, but this is my concern. I don't see how the test can show whether the outcome is the result of...