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Yes. Have tried in several different forms and it completely knocks me out.

Sorry for not summarising!

Merged thread ‘It was like someone had drugged me’ — Kirsty Young on her life-altering illness - The Sunday Times Non paywall link below: https://archive.ph/2022.05.28-171352/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-was-like-someone-had-drugged-me-kirsty-young-on-her-life-altering-illness-hcpmzb2jq

I mean the reviewer can barely spell and sounds like a fool, so.

I’ve thought about this so often in the past. How many of us got a brief follow up to ask why we’d stopped going to the doctors? It seems like the assumption is always that we got better and “got on with our lives”. That exact phrase was actually used by the first consultant I was referred to...

I was personally seen at this clinic. It took 12+ months to get an appointment - once I did I had an assessment, and after the assessment it was a further 12 months for a first appointment. The ‘therapy’ was just talking about increasing activity and addressing sleep (why didn’t I think of...

Want to emphasise here that I’m playing devil’s advocate here and don’t hold these views but....why *would* you want to enter the field? It’s a field that at present is: - mired in controversy - little direction - no real foundation to build upon - doesn’t have the ‘glamour’ of curing...

Sexism is structural and personal. One can take personal responsibility for harmful views while also acknowledging that it’s part of a wider issue. Saying it’s a structural issue doesn’t absolve the individual, it just shows causation.

Oof this is pretty terrible. I was going to pull out some quotes but I’m quite foggy of late. But yeah it’s not great. TC: “it’s defined by its primary symptom of fatigue” Ok then.

I guess this’ll just strengthen the people who are always going on about Hyde being the only doctor who can diagnose “true’ ME by claiming he’s being silenced or something. Joy.

Ah no I meant capable. As in, people are rarely black and white. Someone I know and like may have been horrible to you, etc.

I always find this sort of thing interesting because I think it highlights how we as humans often have very one dimensional views of other people. Bad people are sometimes capable of good. Equally good people can make mistakes and do bad things. We often only ever get to see one side of someone...

Well that’s very disappointing. If true, and generally I’m inclined to believe such accusations as a starting point, particularly if it’s more than one person, it’s not only a horrible set of actions but also deeply irresponsible to the patients who are now without a doctor for ongoing care...

Interesting, long piece in the New Yorker Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-troubled-history-of-psychiatry

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2019/05/25/was-stephen-hawkings-illness-psychosomatic-no/

Just on the joint laxity thing, I’ve definitely felt like my joints are more lax since being ill. Often feels like the muscles aren’t strong enough to support the joint properly so you get a lot of movement that you shouldn’t have. Maybe it could be due to deconditioning, maybe something else...

Well I guess someone had to step up for the free Likes ;)

I think making it about insufficient healthcare provision would work best for television, in my opinion. There are plenty of severe illnesses but it’s the medical mistreatment and lack of funding that’s the real story, for me. I also think that this is more likely to engender public action or...

I have had this for quite some time, initially worried about it but sadly, as with most of our symptoms, stopped because I had more pressing issues elsewhere in the body :banghead:. Is it not maybe just something to do with circulation / blood pooling, feet warm and immobile overnight etc? Not...