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I think @Barry's right—worth checking out. I do get a very similar thing, but there are several causes that all result in quite similar symptoms: Big peak in blood sugar, i.e. eating a cake without any other food – confirmed by blood glucose meter; Low blood sugar, i.e. reactive hypo – ditto...

I'm not convinced anyone really knows, especially given the new variants that are going to keep popping up. My decision, given that I've never had a really bad vaccine reaction, would always be to hedge my bets by accepting any top-ups that are offered, plus taking as many reasonable...

I know this is an OMF thread, but the emails I get are actually all from UK-based charities. The run-up to Christmas* is when our budgets are most stretched—quite apart from the gift-giving, food-buying, card-sending and Christmas-tree decorating, our heating costs are doubled because it's...

It's not a great time of year to try and raise money from people who mostly don't have enough to manage in the first place, is it.

Patients don't pay directly in the UK—but the taxpayer does, of course. In the case of ME, we're often stumping up for services that are largely useless to patients.

The pool is used for club training, so it's kept cool enough that you shudder when you first get in. It probably wouldn't make much difference, as you don't get too warm even when working hard. Hope your viral 'thing' departs soon! They're so infuriating, specially when they can't even be...

Never tried it myself, but then again I can't even stand up in heat, let alone exercise! :laugh:

Its would be nice to think that the extraordinary way our community responded to the challenge will ripple out and change things for the future. Not every patient group is so organised or so well-informed—most probably aren't—but it's a case study on what can be achieved. That can only be a good...

Probably not in Hansard, which records what was said/written (even if it's not entirely correct).

I think one of the problems is that whether it's a helpful way to do medicine or or not, a group of traditional specialisms does still exist. If nobody really knows what is wrong with a patient, it's hard for them to say which specialism should look after them. There's so little in the way of...

Another great article, Turning the Nostalgia Up to Eleven: https://thesciencebit.net/2021/11/24/psychogenic-me-cfs-turning-the-nostalgia-up-to-eleven/

The pharmacist at our Tesco does very slow 'flu jabs, as he thinks people get less soreness. Doesn't make any difference to me, but could it have been someone with their own theories about it being less painful? My Pfizer was done at a vaccination centre by a med student, and got stabbed in in...

Just to update on my Pfizer booster three days ago: I've had no symptoms, thankfully, it's been very like getting the annual 'flu jab.

I don't know if it helps, but my ECGs have all been done by nurses, so I don't always get subjected to the full-on health check from the GP! My most recent ECG was ordered after an online exchange of messages about something else altogether. The background is that I have asymptomatic, probably...

I had my Pfizer booster two days ago. No sign of the lovely energy boost I got from my first AZ dose, but so far nothing negative either. I’d absent-mindedly booked a swimming lane for the day after the jab, and as I felt fine I decided to go - again, all as normal. It’s too soon to be sure...

My parents said I was never the same again after measles. Although I didn’t have all the symptoms of ME until I was 17, I very clearly remember getting the burning muscle pain in my thighs at a primary school I attended between the ages of 9 and 11. I got measles at my previous school, probably...

I might try and step aside a bit, and wonder why they're taking this line. One of the difficulties with pre-existing conditions is that insurers can ask for evidence that a death from a different illness wasn't caused by the first, and this can be quite challenging in some cases. An insurer...

Interesting, thank you. Will take me a while to read them properly, but in the meantime I do wish somebody would offer me a health passport! I mask so well that nobody has a clue unless they're trained, and there are occasional moments where it might make a genuine difference.

Yep.

I guess it's potentially different for every individual? ME's not that uncommon, so it wouldn't be surprising if people had that diagnosis in addition to others, but I suppose some presentations of some other conditions could be confused with it. Especially if the diagnostic process had been...