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I can see that, but you're still increasing your risk of spreading the pathogen around in an attempt to clean a mask that wasn't designed to be cleaned. Worse still, you're potentially spreading the pathogen inside your own home. I know the reusable ones will be more expensive. Then there's...

Why would you want to sterilize or disinfect a single use mask? Apart from all the other snags noted by those better informed than me I reckon, even wearing gloves you are more likely to accidentally spread pathogens onto the inside of the mask or onto the band holding it onto your head...

Sounds more like she wants a nice safe place where she doesn't have to think at all. No difficult people asking awkward questions, regardless of how valid those questions might be. Just blindly following those in charge and not questioning. Then again faith is the lady's business I suppose.....

Just of curiosity, does anyone know if there's a starting age point for diagnosis of somatization in paediatrics? I do wish they would think about/could see the life limiting consequences of such B.S.. Blighting a person's life before they've even begun living it. :cry:

I would imagine he would be relying to a large extent on advice from other people about technical or medical aspects. If in turn those people have fallen for the "expert" opinion currently in favour he may not know or understand anything at all about it. This could go a couple of ways- - He...

Oh dear. the references on that website are very old 2002 is the newest - the report to the govt Chief Medical Officer. 1994 CDC diagnostic criteria. All that energy, yet as a research coordinator can't be arsed to keep up to date. Waffle, waffle, waffle.... Bit at the end I got cured...

Yuck! Coronavirus aside I don't think it would be unreasonable to request they wash their hands or use a hand sanitizer when they come into your home. Maybe have a bottle of the stuff on the hall table?

Absurd and abusive are the first two words that spring to mind. Edit - forgot to ask would it help if foreign nationals, living abroad wrote too?

Well.... CBT does naff all for us so it's effectively GUM for the BPSers. Clearly GUM works for them. It should definitely help us!

Do they ever just listen to themselves? So you can on!y do something to help someone if someone else has written instructions for you? I have zero medical training, yet if someone collapsed in front of me I would try to help. Even if it just to call an ambulance and try to keep em going till...

There are other aspects too to being truthful with the patient - They can be honest and truthful with friends and family and this will make it easier to manage and maintain relationships. Especially if supporting information is provided by health charities, the NHS for example. Setting family...

I think this is such a new concept and so I'm not sure they know precisely what they mean. Definitely. Many of us suffer cognitive dysfunction when in PEM and that makes it harder for us to observe and assess what is actually happening or find the words to describe it. By the time our...

Wow. Amazing. Well done @Dx Revision Watch!

Was it an add for Heineken that claimed it was the beer that could reach parts others can't? Is Michael Sharpe trying to claim psychiatry is the "Heineken" of the medical world? Unlike Heineken, whose fans presumably like it and derive some satisfaction and pleasure from drinking it...

Migraines aside, I always tended to put the heat bit down to inflamed sinuses or allergies. I don't actually know if it is due to that though. That's one of the horrible things with ME. Sometimes you're suffering so much all you can do is lie down and go through it with zero spare capacity to...

Oh no it hasn't.....

Yes, I sometimes get that hot or heated feeling too With regard to a cold compress I sometimes use an icepack (a sports type gel one) wrapped in a teatowel. Also you can get cooling mint roll on gels or creams from chemists here that you can have in your bag or pocket when you're out and...

I'm afraid I'm all too familiar with headaches that last, and last and last. Occasionally, disappearing just in time for a new on to start. I have always been a "headachy" person, even pre ME, caused by hormones, allergies, eyestrain, anaemia, problems with neck muscles, then there's...

Perhaps rather than try to encompass that kind of detailed information re HR monitoring in an information guide the guide could provide links the person could explore when they're interested or ready to take on the new information? It seems to me that links to old style static documents may be...

I think @Ravn makes good points. It took many, many years before I took it seriously enough. Getting the idea in my head that just because I felt able to do something and really wanted to get that thing done, didn't necessarily mean it was okay to do it. There is an element of but surely a...