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Absolutely. You'd have to repeat it every day for months in order to get a broad historic average, but as that wouldn't describe your status accurately for most of the time – and would be subject to change anyway – it's probably a waste of energy.

Just for info, several local groups that I belong to have trouble with BT internet addresses – it seems to be a particular issue with mailing lists.

I'm not sure it does? It seems to suggest that raised levels of circulating MMA may be an indicator of mitochondrial dysfunction, and that this dysfunction could be prognostic for increased mortality. Furthermore, the increased mortality risk is still present even when participants do not have...

The BBC does frequently mention them in items about various aspects of medicine, especially on R4 and News 24, so it wouldn't be in the least surprising.

:laugh::laugh: Well, as long as the volte-face is complete, and includes ME and other patients with 'unexplained' fatigue, I for one won't complain. We need to find a way to move this whole thing forward now – we can argue about the history later.

From today's Grauniad – apologies if it's already been posted, I couldn't spot it: Long Covid: the evidence of lingering heart damage https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/04/long-covid-the-evidence-of-lingering-heart-damage

Have emailed you, @Andy.

I feel for you, @Snow Leopard – it can be enormously frustrating, if not downright depressing if you think too much about it. I guess I'm lucky in having very little concentration to start with, so doing something requiring a lot of it is out of the question! It does solve a lot of problems. I...

I didn't mean that the symptoms are the same, just that the usage is. You do too much, and there are consequences – whether those involve PEM, pain from over-used muscles, or headache and nausea from drinking alcohol.

I didn't receive anything (I have been checking the spam folder), so just subscribed again. Two identical emails welcoming me, but nothing yet about the survey.

Before I learned the term PEM, I just used to talk about having 'hangovers'. Although it's vague and inaccurate, I think many people would grasp the underlying meaning – you overdo things, then suffer afterwards. I worked with a few people who were keen on sport and fitness, and they sometimes...

I find this worrying, though: "When I'm good I can do anything I want," he said. "I can walk for miles across the Dales no problem. But within days I can completely collapse. It took me nearly all of September to get back to where I am now." Many years ago, long before my diagnosis, I was...

I'm sure I've seen tweets from folk like Paul Garner that have mentioned PEM. Because of this, I'm a bit hesitant about coining a new term for it at the moment, as it could potentially sow confusion for very unwell people who're already on a steep learning curve. I wonder if just continuing to...

Yes, I think that is what's perceived, but I argue that this separation between the chronically ill and 'stable & predictable' groups is to some extent a false dichotomy. The resistance of the latter to the medicalisation of their impairments was born out of decades of exclusion, denial, and...

Absolutely – one of the biggest social barriers for some chronically ill people is work. I wonder what percentage of people with energy impairments could do some work, if it were made accessible enough and the benefits system didn't punish them for trying? And how that would impact their self...

I was exposed to EBV via my boyfriend some months before my ME began, but although I developed a couple of swollen glands a few weeks after he first showed symptoms, I wasn't ill. (He was really unwell, and needed a couple of months off work.) My worst ME symptoms in the first two years were...

I found the same, although I probably order a smaller range of foods than you (can't eat potatoes or pasta, for instance). I had to visit the store from which my deliveries come yesterday, to pick up my prescription meds. The stock levels of all the things that were unavailable to order online...

@Snow Leopard, if at any point you felt like blogging something like this as a sort of 'friendly challenge' to the research community – which could be shared more easily than posts on S4ME – I'm sure it would be welcomed by a lot of patients who lack the understanding of biochemistry/physiology...

This is the core of what the report discusses. I have split the first paragraph into three, in the hope of making it easier to read, and explained a couple of sets of initials – I hope that's helpful. "Chronic illness and the DPM [Disabled People's Movement] Investigating a social model of...

I haven't had any debates about it for a looong time, in truth. I became too unwell to carry on working in the disability arts sector in 2013, and since then all my conversations have been with people inside the chronic illness community. I can't even read books now, so I don't know what's...