Exactly. How do you have that conversation with your boss, your partner, your mortgage company, relevant insurance company, benefits agency?...
I used to think so too. However, ME is itself a fluctuating illness so a baseline doesn't work. I knew that but it took a long time to get my...
Call me a cynic but I suspect this is deliberate. When it's so vague I suspect it's because they don't necessarily want folk to know that no...
I can't answer the poll. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The better I am generally, the more resources I can input into meal planning. Ready meals...
Take your metaphor out of your junk drawer, shove it into the waste basket & put it out where it belongs. In the trash. Edit - spelling
This is very much how I see it. It is closely related but we still don't really know or understand what's going on. Also, for all we know PEM is...
Ah! That might be it. I've been taking fish oils as per my consultant's recommendations for over 20 years.
I wonder if it's possible that simply having some entry about childhood mistreatment in a person's medical records makes it more likely to slap a...
Yeah, because the objective is to treat not to improve the life of the patient. Would that attitude be okay for a dentist or an optician? Yet...
Yep. True. I am as sure as it is possible to be without going and having a test that my T4 levels are about right at the moment.
Does anyone remember the life of Bryon? "We're the people's front of Judea! No we're not we're the Judean People's Front!". Or something quite...
I wonder if that's a reflection of severity - that for the more severe end of the scale symptoms are so bad and function is so reduced there isn't...
Not so much wound healing but connected. I wondered if anyone else finds they're slow to stop bleeding? I don't have any family history of blood...
That's the way of BPS. Mix in a couple of grains of truth, several dollops of correlation=causation, plus a heaped barrel of misinterpretation....
Yep. Nothing against mental health support where it's needed or wanted but where it isn't needed or wanted it can often just place an extra...
This right here is what really bothers me. I've noticed a knee jerk reaction before when being asked questions about job or life events or...
I think there's a difference between PEM at a level that is triggered by day to day activities and PEM that is triggered by a single or discrete...
Is there an Irish equivalent to NICE @Tom Kindlon? The HSE or above? Are there any written guidelines for treatment for ME? I'm wondering if...
Ha! Apparently not. I know of an individual who used this as an example when talking to a psychiatrist. She had been taking notes throughout the...
These guys really are clueless, aren't they? If you're struggling to manage the basics of keeping yourself fed and watered, you're struggling to...
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