Responding to a comment made on another thread...
I'm not sure if that's the case actually, Nielk. I've just been reading the pain section of the report and it says that pain research is inconsistent, and that one of the difficulties with pain studies is that they fail to distinguish ME patients from fibro patients, or comorbid ME/fibro patients. It also says that pain doesn't distinguish ME from other illnesses (i.e. pain is a common symptom in many illnesses) so it's not helpful to distinguish ME from other illnesses. Furthermore, they say that up to 94% of Fukuda patients report experiencing pain (in which case 'pain' wouldn't distinguish CCC ME patients from Fukuda CFS patients.) I'm paraphrasing somewhat, so I recommend that people read it for themselves, in case I'm not accurately reporting what they say. Their very short summary/conclusion is on page 147. The pain section starts on page 141.