what symptoms "count"in ME/cfs?

[Allyson]

Interesting post in form a fb friend

Every time I've heard Mary Dimmock speak she's been impressive:


"CDC states that Oxford, Fukuda, Canadian and the ME-ICC “identify similar pools of patients”.

But Fukuda does not require PEM and Oxford only requires 6 months of fatigue and allows psychiatric illness.

Numerous studies have shown that these definitions are not all the same patients.

Yes, ME is heterogeneous but this heterogeneity is a manufactured artifact of inappropriately combining all these diverse definitions and conditions into one clinical entity called CFS."

Link to short article

http://thoughtsaboutme.com/2013/05/23/mary-dimmocks-may-2013-cfsac-testimony/



cheers

Ally

 

[Shell]

I hope the CFSAC meeting will be up on Youtube. I can't read much at the moment. I need to hear it.

 

[Bob]

I hope the CFSAC meeting will be up on Youtube. I can't read much at the moment. I need to hear it.

Videos of the whole event will be placed online.

 

[Allyson]

I hope the CFSAC meeting will be up on Youtube. I can't read much at the moment. I need to hear it.

thanks Shell and Bob; please do post if so

thanks

Ally