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Call me a cynic but the first thing I look for now in articles like this is "what are they selling?" Nice publicity for Yorktest this time. Apart from that another n=1 story, all kinds of stuff thrown together (rather than decently researched) by the journalist, including this: Fills column...

Ok, regular, moderate and severe. I have regular ME. That feels better already.

Having to call what I have "mild" is rather annoying, but it does need distinguishing from the much worse condition many are in. I suppose we could do what fast-food restaurants do when they want to avoid describing anything they sell as "small" and describe what I have as "regular" ME - but...

I wear earplugs to sleep since my wife started snoring. I have tinnitus too, but it doesn't stop me falling asleep. My current earplugs are so good that I can't hear my alarm clock, but it wakes my wife up and she gives me a push so that's ok and serves her right for snoring. If she's not there...

Your "I told you so" T-shirt is being printed as we speak. Well to be fair they have said we can complete their survey.

Drink tea and wait. Surprisingly effective.

Thankfully I don't live in the UK and don't have to see a professional who has been "educated" by AfME. If I did, this would affect me, as I am a mild sufferer. Here is a question I asked of AfME on 3rd April: Unfortunately it remains one of the many questions put to AfME on this forum which...

I think I can out-odd you there. I do chess puzzles on my smartphone every night until my eyelids droop.

AfME seem to be refusing to take a stance. Assigning percentages to the answers of a survey of members (who aren't very well informed if AfME's webpages and the discussions permitted on their forum are all they have to go on) and calling it "data" is a long way from saying "PACE is a pile of...

Indeed. S4ME and its members are more than capable of responding to NICE without it having to be through an AfME survey. On the subject of asking people to respond to a few questions, there are a few unanswered questions around this forum awaiting your attention @Action for M.E.

Well thank goodness the job landed in the safe hands of Richard Horton then, otherwise who knows how the Lancet might have disgraced itself.

That video has just inspired me to stay on my sofa.

So after banning himself from twitter for a week MS can't resist having a little peek on Sunday afternoon. Continues to struggle with the English language, as "stastician" isn't a word. Something must have annoyed him.

I read it through in one go and thought it was excellently written, obviously with the reader in mind. I didn't read anything I would change. One of them is a woman with a fat arse on the telly and the rest of them are something to do with her.

Disappointing that AFME was allowing such drivel to be published in their magazine as recently as this year.

@alktipping just between you and me at one point I did find myself googling whether "bollocks" was a metaphor.

I don't think there's anything wrong with seeking spiritual support whether you are well or ill if that's what you're into, I'd just like to see a strict separation between spirituality and medicine. This guy seems to think that because he's a doctor, that entitles him to branch out into the...

Is there a difference between "believing the patient" and "believing in the patient"? I expect to be believed. I don't give a toss whether my doctor believes in me, that's my mother's job. Thanks, but I never thought I was, where did you get that idea from? Yes, we know, get on with it. Oh...

There is now - Sly Saint's Law