PS: you can claim by post by sending a request for a form to Freepost DWP PIP 1 (nothing else is needed on the envelope). Allegedly it takes...
It's usually around a 50 minute wait, sometimes longer, and calls are not infrequently dropped halfway. It's frustrating, but unfortunately...
it doesn't sound as if that would start in as little as 20 minutes?
Maybe we need a survey on heat intolerance next... :laugh:
I guess it might depend what you mean by OI? I use it as a shorthand for feeling unwell after a brief period of standing still—in a way that...
So rehab doesn't help. Good to have that cleared up.
Similar for me, I can only be sure PEM isn't a virus when it stops at sore throat, swollen glands, and a slightly runny nose. It never causes...
I agree, ordinary ME/CFS malaise (which I get every day) is very different to 'poisoned'. I get nausea regularly, but it's not the same thing...
I think that's well worth doing. I'e always assumed it's to do with severity, since the only times I've physically needed to lie down during the...
I eat a lot of vegetables for the same reasons as @Hoopoe (plus I can't eat potatoes), and find exactly this. I can be painfully full from my...
I can't work out why is this thought to be news. I mean...why would anybody even bother to read to the end of the first sentence of an article,...
A bit hard to know, really. My threshold was low, the effects began quickly, and I don't drink quickly. With jenever, gin, or malt whiskey I...
I'd be really interested to know too, as I've never known it triggered by anything I've eaten or drunk. But if it is sometimes a consequence of...
Not quite, at least not for me. Have you ever had to take a medication or been somewhere heavily polluted by smoke, so that it felt as if the...
Yep. Also completely unethical to describe CBT as treatment for ME/CFS, for that matter.
It is interesting, but I wonder if long summer breaks in schools and universities have something to do with the reduced number of referrals?...
Yes, I think so. To me, the overarching impression is that it's something that shouldn't be there, and that's why 'poisoned' seems to describe it....
I don't think it's necessarily linked to alcohol at all, so it may need a separate discussion. It's a feature of PEM for some people, and severe...
The self-resolving nature doesn't seem to be covered nearly well enough in discussions like this. It's one of the areas doctors could talk about...
I once had a long discussion about this with someone who got ill a bit later in life than I did, and he said the closest thing from his preME/CFS...
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