Crossposted with Hutan.
Huge sympathy to those with awful ongoing symptoms.
For those dreading it, a bit of hope is that it's not so bad for everyone.
I am one of the lucky ones with menopause. Last period age 44, hot flushes were just waves of heat that happened up to several times an hour...
I think we need to be careful in our criticisms of use of feedback, because we don't know what changes Sarah Tyson's team are making to their PROMs following feedback from the thousands who have completed the questionnaires, people writing to them, and comments from people here and on other...
And attribute that absolutely zero abuse to the disclaimer/warning?
Seriously, of course no online seminar that invites audience participation should put up with abuse, but I think this is the first time I've ever seen such a warning. People running the zoom can cut anyone off if they want to...
Is this normal in webinars like this, or is it specially inserted because of mythology about abusive pwME? It seems to me to be pretty insulting that they feel they need to include such a statement.
Every pwME's efforts at pacing is a research exercise carried out by the pwME as we navigate every day's activity and rest.
All I'm suggesting here is adding more information to that research exercise to enable us to learn what we find works best given our individual disease and life situation...
I think I would have found it very helpful when I was newly learning to cope with symptoms and crashes and still working part time. It might have been possible to have objective data both to demonstrate to my disbelieving employers and doctors (and even some family and friends) that my activity...
People with other chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes are self monitoring and recording data on apps which help both with the patient managing their symptoms, and their data is accessible to their doctor or specialist nurse in real time. That should be possible for pwME too.
Crossposted with Adrian.
I think Adrian's idea is worth exploring. It wouldn't necessarily produce a long readout, rather, if I understand it correctly it would also include analysis of features such as connections between activity, medications, symptoms and signpost patterns the pwME might not...
The items in the S4ME Science library are getting out of date as we haven't had any volunteers to update it for several years. So maybe not the best source of reference.
Fatigue is what I felt when well after a long hike, dancing all night or being up several times a night feeding a baby or caring for a sick child. Everyone experiences fatigue. Such fatigue doesn't prevent doing it all over again the next day and the next day ....
ME/CFS fatigue is different...
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