Hitting the wall is when runners suddenly and without warning can no longer move, though the term may have been loosened in speech over the years....
The risk from diabetes is that blood sugars go wonky when you are ill. The liver releases stuff so you have plenty of sugar to fight infection....
When I was first learning about ME, about 1984 after becoming ill in 1968, one of the symptoms they spoke about was feeling bad when standing...
It is so frustrating. I would like the information in those 2 videos but one is 33 minutes and the other is 24 and there is no way I can manage...
They assume a direction of causality, but it is just as possible that people diagnosed with FSS are unhappy with life because they have an idiot...
:banghead::banghead::banghead: Here maybe all this banging my head against walls is causing my neurological problems and I do need some...
At least it is an acknowledgement that all the ethical protections are ignored when dealing with ME patients.
For many years ME was associated with enteroviruses but no one seems to acknowledge that nowadays. They may not be the only cause but neglecting...
I can't describe how I feel at maximum fatigue for the simple reason that I know it is passing when I start to think again. I don't think I am...
I think it is just as likely, if not more, that children who have a lot of infections are more likely to go on to develop ME. Having lots of...
ADD is caused by the "brake" part of the brain being underactive. Stimulating that part slows things down enough that attention can be better...
It is not conspiracy theory to believe that a lot of things go on behind the scenes and are never publicised. Before my eyes went wonky I read...
There has never been any research that indicates long term antibiotic use reduces fatigue. So one useless treatment has side effects so another...
Beautifully succinct. It describes our predicament in a nice soundbite which is what we need. I will keep a copy of that if it is OK.
Patients go to a neurology clinic because they are experiencing neurological symptoms. The doctor finds that objective signs do not fit disease...
This is Fink proving that he is cleverer and his ideas on medicine are superior to the other BPSers. It has nothing to do with what is best for...
I do not find that my emotions have any bearing on my ME symptoms. In 52 year of illness there have been lots of emotions but troubled times only...
I may be misunderstanding what you mean. I fully agree that our behaviour is a valid response to being sick. If sickness behaviour is valid and a...
I can't remember if I read it or imagined it, but I thought that lax and deconditioned muscles could give hypermobility. Despite being unable to...
It makes sense to me. One of the big questions with ME over the years is how can we be so sick yet no one can find anything wrong when they do...
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