This is a phrase I used to hear when I first had ME in the 1980s. Has anyone else here come across it? I can't remember the original source, but...
I see that the BBC have now changed the title of the article to "Miranda on 'joy and fun' of getting married at 51". ??
After my 1983 respiratory flu, which everyone I knew had and we were really floored for a couple of weeks because it was so severe, we all...
That's so interesting to see it from your mother's viewpoint, thank you. I was lucky to get a few understanding doctors, and yes, they did think...
When I got and stayed severely ill for 5 years after a severe respiratory virus in February 1983, things were very different, indeed out of all...
Yes, similarly I simply tell strangers I have a 'chronic disabling post-viral syndrome' that limits my strength. I would like to say ME but...
I've heard of people getting ME after an anti-virus vaccine, which may make sense as vaccines can sometimes give people the symptoms of the virus...
Same here, I was diagnosed with post-viral syndrome in 1983, before the 'fatigue' bit was added a few years later to change it to 'post-viral...
Yes, exactly my experience too. Was seen by an Infectious Diseases consultant who I really thought was going to be able to get to the bottom of...
Same here. I tried acupuncture years ago out of desperation when a couple of friends enthused about it being great for all their ailments. I found...
Wessely has never written anything but drivel, whether with 'meaning' or not! He likes trying to make himself sound clever and authoritative, but...
I found it ironic that the same year Dr Myhill was suspended for a year for prescribing a B12 injection, NHS doctor Dr Jane Barton was let off for...
This article, and others that came out at the same time, disgusts me as a many-years patient of Dr Monro. The BS about her treatment not being...
Oh my gosh I'm so sorry, @lunarainbows , what a horrendous and heartbreaking experience. Many many hugs :hug: :hug: :hug:
Yes. Statements about ME being a mainly female illness are very worrying, as this risks ME being seen as a 'women's problem' and therefore not to...
@Trish , Omigosh, Greenhalgh's responses were utterly bizarre and inappropriate. Hard to understand why she would consider your perfectly reasoned...
It is amazing how one 'easy PhD' had so much power. Can only guess it tied in nicely into a medical establishment/government/health insurance...
McEvedy was a junior doctor who wrote his Royal Free outbreak paper as his PhD thesis, without ever having examined a patient, and Beard was his...
Ohhhh I thought you were quoting from the NHS page, that that was what THEY said!! Sorry. It just does sound like the sort of (patronizing) thing...
Ugh. Again, so patronising. :sick:
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