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Horton is writing in today's Guardian. Comments are enabled.

Many thanks for your answer. No, I haven't yet seen a gastroenterologist in any meaningful sense. I'm told the person who performed the gastroscopy etc. was a consultant gastroenterologist, but the specific diagnosis (based largely on the biopsies presumably) was only obtained some time after...

Hi everyone, Like most PwME I've been through an array of symptoms since coming down with the illness six years ago. For the past 18 months I've had increasing discomfort in my stomach, and a recent gastroscopy and biopsies show I have erosive lymphocytic gastritis. I don't smoke, don't do...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44851363 After reading that "chronic illness" had contributed to the couple's financial predicament, I was curious to know what chronic illness. Silly of me really; I should have just thought of the most impoverishing chronic illness out there.

What? All patients? I'd say almost none of us do. That's one of the core reasons our torment is as great as it is. In my own case when I was well I competed in cycling time trials almost every week during the summer. After completing every race of 10, 25 miles etc. I was given a time and a...