If I became magically healthy tomorrow I don't think I would go back to my old life now either, even though I really loved it at the time. Not...
Carson - I'm not sure if he's being honest here or having a laugh. I love the way the word "definition" here sounds static and immutable...
I had a phone call with a local carpenter the other day - he needs to come back and finish up a couple of bits and pieces - he's really struggling...
I think this is also called amoxicillin in the UK. I was prescribed a 5 day course of amoxicillin after a dental implant was .....installed (I...
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I hope she recovers quickly. I am long sighted but with quite high astigmatism. I get some eye trouble when in PEM and a lot of bother if I...
Yep, I still sweat when I get too hot or if IM has inadvertently gone overboard with the chillies in a curry etc.
I have heard of junior doctors who were interested in a patient or two on wards with a curious malady (ME)who were warned off when they wanted to...
If memory serves (& if usually doesn't) there were interesting research leads pre and early 80s. Many of patients who diagnosed (UK) before that...
Vested interests of insurance companies and benefits systems? One of Professor Sir Simon Wessely's areas of expertise is epidemiology. So, I...
It's quite possible they have. This is something that happens a lot with Sharpe and Wessely - or so they claim. They only seem to correct...
I would say it's more because it's been mischaracterized as a relatively trivial psychiatric condition. it isn't a psychiatric condition but even...
Is there anything the ME community can do to help get it sorted out? I don't tweet but do follow some threads without logging in & one of the...
Ah, I wonder if that's why I remember shivering much more when I was younger. I didn't live in a centrally heated house until my mid twenties....
Yes. There's being cold and then there's being cold. The being cold because it is cold - verified by others etc. Then another jumper or...
Thinking about it I don't seem to shiver much. My muscles tighten and become painful. Sometimes I wonder why I'm in so much pain before I...
Yep me too. I found I would start to feel a bit grim, lightheaded and headachy. I'd sit with my feet up and have a piece of fruit and a large...
As @Trish said, to some extent. Many others will be left feeling guilty, shamed and inadequate. The damage to their confidence and self esteem...
The hallmark of a true BPS zealot. Take a symptom of an illness and make a confident declaration that it is comparable to something a healthy...
Correlation ≠ causation. Well, yes they would because they are healthy volunteers. Oh no it doesn't. It demonstrates that using healthy...
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