hypersensitivity

Health outcomes of sensory hypersensitivities in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis Kensei I. Maeda; Mohammed F. Islam; Karl E. Conroy; Leonard Jason Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a poorly understood chronic illness...

So now I seem to have some sound sensitivity but I don't know if it is the typical ME/CFS hypersensitivity or not. I never had sound or light sensitivity before, even when I felt much worse at the beginning of my illness. In the past few years I've been getting worse and worse though and this...

Disclaimer: I don't have sound or light sensitivity but I have synesthesia. (Senses are weirdly connected in the brain: when music plays I automatically "see" it in my mind - movement, shapes, colours. I also "see" numbers and letters in colour - in my head it is a fact that 1 is white, a b is...

One question that has been bugging my mind is whether studying the lowered tolerance to alcohol that is commonly reported in ME would yield insights into the pathophysiology of the disease. In the few studies that asked ME patients about their tolerance to alcohol, 60% to 2/3 of them report...

My caree, having spent quite a long time this evening suffering from the noise (vibration?) of downstairs' bathroom extractor fan (we think it must travel along the joists, or something), swore blind she could still hear it, or something similar, way after it had been switched off. Does anyone...