Search results

@Trish My sleep is like yours - every couple of hours, I'm AWAKE! Wide AWAKE! Why the hell am I AWAKE again?! It's like a newborn waking up and crying every couple of hours at the end of their sleep cycle. They rise too close to consciousness, and startle awake. Babies learn not to wake...

Wow Bill! Please God by me! :jawdrop: A decent night's sleep! To wake up feeling refreshed! Ohhhhh... I wish I snored, so I could reap the benefits of a sexy Darth Vader mask, but alas, I just sleep next to a wretched snorer... Might be half my problem. I can only imagine how incredible it...

@MsUnderstood Great food for thought! A low histamine diet is the only one I haven't tried! I bet it feels empowering to find something that works so well for you both. I'm inspired. I stopped eating gluten a year ago, and my dodgy digestion improved dramatically. But I did so to improve my...

Hi @Maria1, I've read that post menopausal women do far better using bio identical progesterone than traditional estrogen HRT. Particularly with migraines! Most women who have migraines get a respite during pregnancy like you did due to the high levels of progesterone at that time! If you...

@Jonathan Edwards @Invisible Woman @Maria1 @Jan @MsUnderstood @Bill @Daisybell We started discussing this on my Introduce Yourself thread, and it's time I tried to be sensible and get a bit sciencey, in my limited way. So, several of us have similar stories of migraines, thyroid problems, and...

Thank you for saying that, Inara. It means a lot to me. We both were motivated to speak by our very hard personal experiences. Let's try to be accurate and calm. I'm bad at calm. :speechless: 40-50% is the range I found. I blurred it for peace. ;)

Oh my God, @Inara, that is all utterly horrendous. I am so sorry for all that you've been through, there in Germany. It's inhumane. From my experience, and my friends', and online support groups here, it really doesn't seem that there is an agenda here among the psychiatric profession. I...

@Skippa I apologise for any inflammatory remarks that overstepped the line. The views of some other members on this thread are clearly highly charged against CBT because they live in the UK where it has been hijacked disgracefully by the NHS as a weapon of coercion against ME sufferers. I do...

Coming in here as a layperson, when you are all clearly professionals in the field. You are enormously damming of CBT, and antidepressants, and I'm SHOCKED. Have any of you suffered from Major Depression, suicidal feelings, suicide attempts, or anxiety? I did, from age 14 to 32. 18...

Absolutely, @Adrian. If they can't identify a pathogen as the causative agent, then they need to "blame" someone. It's like a witch hunt. Who does it help? Who does it serve? Are they going to screen people and only let good enough people breed? Can they protect children from bereavement...

Fantastic! :heart_eyes:

"... childhood adversity is far more likely to be associated with major depressive disorder than in the causation of ME/CFS.” Give the geniuses the Nobel Prize. :banghead: