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@Jonathan Edwards said on that other thread that Charles Shepherd would be a good person to ask for advice (the medical adviser for the UK's ME Association).

I'm not on Twitter, unfortunately, so don't have the means to pass that message on to her. Does anyone? Pity Charles Shepherd isn't here yet.

Are you aware of this plan to show Unrest at the Canadian parliament? https://www.s4me.info/index.php?threads/plan-to-take-unrest-film-to-canadian-parliament-help-wanted.433/ @brf :)

[Edit: Since I started this thread about Unread being in the Oscar longlist, it's made it to the next stage and the top 15 so I changed the thread title.] 'Unrest' has been submitted for consideration for an Oscar. It's on a longlist of 170 documentary films, but still...

Intriguing five-minute video showing excerpts from the October 14th, Washington DC meeting of leaders from academia, biotech, government, research, and medicine, brought together by Solve to 'disrupt to the status quo' by fostering collaboration and speeding up research. Individual...

Just saw it - both Jen and Charles did a great job. The clip they showed will have been a real eye-opener - just horrific - and Jen stuck the boot into GET. :)

Sorry, I spoke prematurely! I can't have been listening properly. Now, surely! Any minute! They go off the air in ten minutes.

Bump! They just mentioned it coming up, any minute now...

I have wooden shutters on my bedroom window and thought it already kept the room pretty dark but there was a gap where a neighbour's security light shone in. I had a wooden strip nailed to the shutter to close the gap and the difference has been huge. Having near-total blackness has been a real...

Wow - for overseas folks who may not realise, this is a massive thing in the UK.

Also good ideas! The advantage of the small capsule (and they are very small) is that you don't taste anything. Some medicines are extremely bitter.

From another thread, a very useful comment:

I posted this on another thread but perhaps it's also relevant here: Many people have problems swallowing large tablets and capsules. As far as capsules go, it's possible to buy empty gelatin capsules on Ebay, Amazon, etc. so that you can open your own large capsules and decant the contents...

I hope Charles Shepherd will join the new forum. It would be good to have a conversation on how to capitalise on this.

There's a weird, giant, blank space at the top of your post, @Valentijn...

I find that the capsule feels too much of a foreign object and I can't swallow it then. I have to take it with something like chewed-up bread or meat.

You can buy very cheap pill-cutters at pharmacies that allow you to chop them into smaller, measured portions (or I suppose you could crush any tablet and cram it into tiny capules!) But you wouldn't want to do this with those that are specially coated so as to be protected in the stomach...