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  1. Wonko

    UK - NICE guideline on Long Covid

    Let's just hope that their 'advice' isn't dangerous dogmatic hogwash.
  2. Wonko

    UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine and other supermarket related problems

    This is at variance from a letter I received from my towns mayor this morning. "The council understands that government will be writing to people classed as clinically extremely vulnerable detailing the support that will be available with shopping and other basic needs. This will be via the...
  3. Wonko

    Blog: Placebos Can Fool Your Mind, but Not Your Body by James Coyne

    I can see a massive flaw in the above argument. No, one, takes, one, aspirin. Aspirin also isn't great for headaches, not mine anyway, ibuprofen or paracetamol work better, in at least pairs. BTW is he saying that aspirin is a placebo?
  4. Wonko

    UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine and other supermarket related problems

    Slight change in ASDAs charges for priority customers. I was informed of this when I went to amend an order today, that had been been booked over a week ago. Prior to today, on this existing, booked, order, for the 5th of November, there was no delivery charge, but today, there is now a £2...
  5. Wonko

    Exercise-induced hypoalgesia after acute and regular exercise: 2020 Vaegter, Jones

    Am I misunderstanding something? Have they found that, contrary to the alleged normal experience of healthy people, if they take someone who has damaged joints (due to say arthritis) and make them pointlessly and repeatedly mobilise that joint, then these people report an increase in pain...
  6. Wonko

    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    But we already have a term for those who are vulnerable to coronavirus, who are 'anxious' about the effects, and who are uncertain as to what will happen. We call them 'the living'. We also have a terms for those who are not concerned, who have no anxiety about how coronavirus will affect...
  7. Wonko

    Does existing science sufficiently demonstrate that exertion is the correct focus concept?

    Lightning is always quiet, silent in fact. If you study lightning in isolation, (not in a vacuum lol) then you would have no idea why seconds to minutes later there would be sound. The problem is made more difficult because lightning is hard to study, it's difficult to run experiments on...
  8. Wonko

    UK - NICE guideline on Long Covid

    So they are specifically excluding any similarities with ME? So according to my reading of this they will deliberately ignore anything that suggests that people with long covid may end up with ME, no matter if they meet the diagnostic criteria (fully, including the exclusion criteria). Not...
  9. Wonko

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    This paints an even worse picture. Currently says 153,000 covid related deaths by February 1st. A couple of weeks ago it said 134,000 - so the trend, of the predictions, is...not good. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-kingdom?view=total-deaths&tab=trend This is linked to off the...
  10. Wonko

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    It seems that currently long covid is applied to anyone who doesn't recover in the officially approved time - so say a month, any longer and they have 'long covid'. As far as I am aware many people are recovering (at least apparently) within 3 months - so covid, then a post viral period, then...
  11. Wonko

    Glycolytic impairment - what are the practical implications?

    Seems so. (Not a medical opinion merely a personal one)
  12. Wonko

    Restless legs syndrome

    One of my first memories, if not the first reasonably solid memory, is from when I was about 3, of RLS. I am also male. It is therefore unlikely I was entering the menopause. Last time they were checked my ferritin levels were really quite high, over 1000, so, as I was still having the...
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    Glycolytic impairment - what are the practical implications?

    As far as I know the body only has two methods of handling excess and unused glucose. It can either be excreted, or ut can be absorbed/converted into fat. A possible hypothesis as to why some people get fat and some don't, or even get thinner, in the situation where glucose isn't being used...
  14. Wonko

    Glycolytic impairment - what are the practical implications?

    A pwME will put on more fat if eating 5kg of cake a week than someone who doesn't have ME, even with exactly the same activity levels?
  15. Wonko

    NICE ME/CFS draft guideline - publication dates and delays 2020

    I'm fairly sure that they have never said deconditioning is the primary cause. What they say is that its a perpetuating factor, that continues disability once yhe primary cause has resolved.
  16. Wonko

    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    I thought that was known virtually from the start. I remember graphics showing outbreaks in Italy and a few other places tracking air pollution levels and I'm fairly sure they were only a month or so in.
  17. Wonko

    PEM - so bloody illogical

    Last night i had hollow depleted heavy burning in the muscles on top of my arms/shoulders, both of them, from thinking on the sofa. So not just legs lol
  18. Wonko

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    Doh!!! UK policy would seem, assuming that those deciding on it aren't very, very stupid, to be engineered to promote the spread of not just this virus, but of all viruses. Schools, eat out to help out, distribution of those likely to be infected through care homes, lack of PPE for both the...
  19. Wonko

    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Is there, in fact, a mental health emergency? If so, why? I hear people who've been primed going on about it, and quite a lot of people will be feeling stressed, about jobs, money, homes etc. - but...and this is important - this is a perfectly natural response to a stressful situation, albeit...
  20. Wonko

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    It sounds like an extremely efficient way of making sure everyone gets infected, even if only one was to start with.
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