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Would this be likely to hold, no matter what type of metabolic diversion were in place? (I suspect life's not that simple, but it sounds so much like what we need that I thought I'd wonder about it aloud anyway...)

I saw a BBC programme maybe 25 years ago, warning that almost 100 years of Georgia's research into bacteriophages was at risk due to power outages and unreliable storage equipment in the aftermath of the civil war. It prompted something of a rescue effort, and the research facility and at least...

I've never been able to use a stick, but I use this rollator (minus the bag on the front) to get me from the changing room to the swimming pool. It's very manoeuvrable, and another advantage is that it turns almost instantly into an emergency chair if I go wobbly—you just put the brakes on, turn...

Whether it's worth our bothering might depend on how they define the word "evidence". :whistle:

I'm sure I remember it from the feminism of the late 70s and into the 80s. The tradition it describes is still alive and kicking but some of the barriers are different, and perhaps that's why it seems so dated now. But yes, in this context a distraction.

It used to be common in the UK too, but seems to have begun as a fairly specific term referring to obstacles to women achieving senior leadership and board roles. It was expanded to include other minorities, and to cover other situations, but fell out of regular use maybe 20 years ago. It's...

Apologies for not making myself clear—I was talking about the overturning of Roe Vs Wade by the US Supreme Court. Against that backdrop, it would be somewhat challenging to attract much attention to the case of regulatory capture as it applies to ME.

Odd timing too, given that there's a high-profile and rather clearer example of regulatory capture in the news, and that is what people are actually interested in this weekend.

Even five years ago I wouldn't have believed how extraordinarily tiresome and difficult it is to sort out people who say they've won an election even when the evidence shows they haven't, or insist that a war isn't a war even as they're launching thousands of missiles. I expect it'll be equally...

And mine—in relation to the systolic pressure, at least. 107/89 would be the sort of range for a bad day. It's not like that all the time, though. I was recently asked to record BP, resting heart rate, and single-lead ECGs twice daily for two weeks, because as well as low pulse pressure, I...

It's probably helpful in the way that sucking sherbet lemons is helpful for ME. They taste nice and take your mind off it for a bit.

Best answer I could give to the question is "none", I guess? We don't know what the trigger is in post-infectious cases, just that there's an association with some viruses. If it's also reasonable to say that asymptomatic infection is possible with those viruses, it makes it difficult to be...

I guess psychiatrists helped me by being the only four doctors who actually thought I was ill in my early years of ME. They couldn't treat me but they believed and supported me, and the last one helped me change from my utterly crap GP to a good one, and I'll always be grateful for that. Is it...

True, but what cheers me is that NICE had already decided to do the right thing, and they're one of the bodies that will actually drive this. Javid's intervention is really important, but it's the clinicians, researchers, and funding bodies who'll need to deliver. He's given the sled a good...

Think I'll wait for the preliminary study on co-morbid batshit rage among young people who have to put up this sort of codswallop AND deal with ME. Will be much more entertaining, and might even come with diagrams.

I thought that was the only explanation. Yup. Same thing with doctors; when I was first assessed for a disability allowance 20-odd years ago, I got a fantastic retired GP. Really clued-up, really warm and funny. He clearly knew my own GP from when he was in practice, so I asked when I next had...

They probably just haven't realised that someone invented the vibrator really quite a long time ago.

But surely lots of people have what could be labelled "proprioceptive dysfunction", yet they don't have ME? I'm relatively still compared to others in the family, but all the same my toes twitch constantly because my brain keeps wanting to know where my feet are, I have to fidget a lot because...

I think it might be too unspecific, tbh. It must be common in the very young, the very old, and folk who're unwell with all sorts of conditions. Oh, and carrot-topped pink people like me.

It's really frightening that over a million people have had it for a year or longer. Typically, self-limiting post viral syndromes resolve before the year mark. That sounds like a familiar story too. People who can't afford to rest; who can't rest adequately because they have young children or...