One of my doctors informed me today that this drug has been recently approved by NICE and is going to try me on it for my sleep issues. He said it will help when I feel too wired to get to sleep. Other insomnia sufferers might want to consider speaking to their doctor about it ..read more

Acupuncture Is Theatrical Placebo I've just now found this 2013 article about the acupuncture after a skeptic doctor posted a link to it on her blog. I searched S4ME to see if anyone had posted it previously but nothing came up. So here it is... https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia...000/Acupuncture_Is_Theatrical_Placebo.25.aspx ..read more

A vibrating diet pill may trick the stomach into feeling full Abstract Effective therapies for obesity require invasive surgical and endoscopic interventions or high patient adherence, making it challenging for patients with obesity to effectively manage their disease. Gastric mechanoreceptors sense distension of the stomach and perform volume-dependent vagal signaling to initiate the gastric phase and influence satiety. In this study, we developed a... A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety, 2023, Shriya Srinivasan et al ..read more

What is pressure therapy? Pressure therapy is a type of lymphatic drainage that uses air pressure to massage the body. A special suit is inflated with air, which creates a gentle pressure that helps to move lymph fluid through the lymphatic system. Pressure therapy is often used in conjunction with manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) to improve the effectiveness of the treatment. How does pressure therapy work? The air pressure in the suit... Click to expand... Pressure Therapy ..read more

This thread has been split from here There is a thread elsewhere discussing my Radical Care Pathway for ME/CFS, (now only available via Positive Health e journal). Because in my work as a psychotherapist, I have used NLP, I have come under the suspicion which NLP seems to arouse generally. I would like to clarify... Neurolinguistic programming (NLP ..read more

Study Description Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effectiveness of repeated immunoadsorption intervention in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) including patients with post-acute COVID-19 CFS (PACS-CFS). The main questions it aims to answer are: (1) Does repeated immunoadsorption relieve fatigue and/or other symptoms associated with CSF and PACS-CSF? (2) Is repeated immunoadsorption safe and tolerable in this patient population? What are the... Randomized-controlled Trial of Immunoadsorption (IA) in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS ..read more

Some posts on this thread have been moved from the vaccination experiences thread and the long covid thread. Note also there is a separate thread... Can vaccines cure ME/CFS or Long Covid ..read more

I have lost a lot of flexibility over the years from osteoarthritis and various injuries. I love this 10-minute standing qigong routine on youtube. Qigong is slow and flowing and doesn't aggravate my existing pain. After doing this qigong for a couple of weeks, I'm more flexible and have increased range of motion. I think it has also enabled me to resume swimming. It used to be that swimming, no matter how slow and easy, would give me pain afterwards for days. Now I can tolerate it much... Simple qigong routine for flexibility ..read more

This post has been copied and following posts moved from: The IDO2 tryptophan trap hypothesis Spoiler: parts of this post about the IDO2 metabolic trap hypothesis There are some issues and concerns around the IDO2 tryptophan trap hypothesis about ME. These are my current thought directions, and should not be considered scientific fact. Please comment, add links, agree... Intermittent fasting - restricting daily hours of eating - and ME/CFS ..read more

Moved post Apologies for this tangential post but I didn't want to start a new thread for this and it is relevant here. There is an article on pain management that is suggesting there will be non-opioid targeted pain relievers in the near future due to some research work in the US. Article (longish): https://nautil.us/painkillers-that-dont-kill-14873/ With the diversity of pain in mind, over the past decade Bean and Woolf... Click to expand... Pain management - discussion thread ..read more