Re: Re: The roots of chronic fatigue

June 6, 2008

Ginny,

While I am pleased they are acknowledging CFS is real. There are many on

this board who do not fit classic CFS, yet carry many of the symptoms. There

was no need for that malingering comment in their paper. Makes me think that

if one does not fit neatly into a peg hole they are designing, then these

people will be deemed liars...yet again. It makes no sense that one would use

that term when advancing the understanding of CFS. It's like saying if you

don't have CFS, yet you are sick with unexplained symptoms, then you must be a

liar. I find this study somewhat dangerous from the tone it is projecting.

In a message dated 6/6/2008 1:20:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

ginloi@... writes:

" Inspire a sudden recovery in malingers " - could mean that if there

are blood typing groups that could offer " hard evidence " of M.E. -

then, those who even " think " they could " pass themselves off " as sick

- would know that their blood work would not show the markers...

Those people certainly exist, and make everyone else vulnerable to the

broad brush of criticism.

" Malingerer " is a legal term of art...but a blood marker test, and

those other factors like irregular heart beat and chronic low blood

pressure do see like real HARD data possibilities, that sound good to

me. In other words, a blood test will chase-off the malingers.

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