From day one this was obviously bad science pushed by corporations and insurance companies hoping to get off the hook from paying long term disability liabilities, such as were due in my personal case when proved. The bill was staggering.
CFS was replaced with Fibromyalgia and Fibromyalgia has been replaced with Chronic Lyme disease.
Has anyone noticed the quality of healthcare getting worse and worse.
I sure have.
So get up off your asses
And fill all the glasses
We’re drinking this place dry.
Johnny Tarr
I’m tired of all seeing all the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome stories!
The best thing to happen for the New World Order is for gov health care. They can eliminate millions of people for the good of mother earth!
Getting tired of questionable science huh.
Ah yes, unbiased science! “Evidence-based medicine”.
Illness is physical, mental and spiritual. All three must be ‘treated’ for healing to occur. Most doctors today simply listen to patients describe symptoms and then prescribe drugs to alleviate the symptoms - drugs that then cause other symptoms or aggravate the current ones even more. They do not listen to heal, or have any idea they should have the patient look at his/her lifestyle as a cause.
No, I’m not a doctor...this has all been my experience. I suffered from what an integrative doctor, who listened to me and looked deeper, called ‘adrenal fatigue.’ I am healed and restored - all credit to God- however, if I had relied on prescriptions I believe I’d be sicker than I was when it all started.
Where did the $8 million go?
Let me guess. “The science of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is settled.”
As far as the *real* science goes, one or more of three things seem to be the most likely. A viral infection, an immune system failure, or a hormonal-metabolic failure. (Or a combination of the above).
A viral infection cannot be seen in isolation to its interaction in the biome, the gut flora. This includes 300-1000 different kinds of bacteria, of which 30-40 take up almost all the space, and other microorganisms including yeasts, protozoa, and parasites. But above all, different viruses dominate the biome by a wide margin, though about half are bacteriophage, that is, they eat bacteria. And the biome in turn is very interactive with both the hormonal-metabolic system and the extremely complex immune system.
Try a word-substitution exercise, replacing “ME/CFS” with “Anthropogenic Global Warming” and the article would still ring true.
I have MS and was a participant in the study. I questioned the veracity of the study from my first session when I thought I was being asked subjective, leading questions that left me with the impression that it was a test and there were “right” answers. There was no opportunity in the study for me to offer my critique, but I mentioned it to my neuro and he tentatively agreed but said I should still go through the motions of my part in the study.
I stayed with the program anyway because I enjoyed the cognitive tests which were objective and based on short-term memory and pattern recognition skills. The test were very tiring, but I consistently aced several of them.
Joe, the owner of the first gym I ever joined and quite a character, hated doctors and used to always say we could take him to a doctor when he was unconscious and unable to resist. Tragically, he died very young when the cancer took him. Same thing happened to one of my cousins.
Don’t hate the doctors. It could end very badly if you do. The vast majority of them sincerely try very hard to help you.
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This is shocking. Raw data from studies should be available to anyone. I thought that was the academic standard!