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Following a discussion on here sometime last year I started taking Xtend BCAA. I try not to take supplements as I’ve felt ripped off so many times over the years but this one appealed to me somehow. And oddly, I did feel a bit better. Instead of being in an armchair or bed about 90% of the...

Well that went well. I was booked in for a phone appointment at eleven - got home with a good five minutes to spare from visiting my mother in hospital (a whole saga in itself as I can't leave home much under my own steam, so hospital visiting is a bit of a nightmare), having navigated a...

Thank you - though I've had ME for decades now, so have learned not to expect very much. I was just hoping for more than I get from my GP, which is 'I don't know anything about ME' in a tone that suggests this is a good thing.

I have a phone call booked with them tomorrow. I had been referred about six months ago to the old service to see a doctor - now it's a phone call with a nurse.

Times article (not sure whether it has been posted elsewhere). Too depressing for words. Labour MPs insist on ‘moral duty’ to get long-term sick into work.

I thought her 'opportunity to give a different level of clarity' line was great - straight out of W1A. John Morton, eat your heart out.

My father used to be able to predict when I was going to have a post-meal crash. He would see the colour suddenly drain from my face and seconds later I would feel rotten and have to go and sit in an armchair.

One of my great grandfathers lost his mother, two sisters and a daughter (my grandmother) to ovarian cancer. My mother had an ovary removed when she had a hysterectomy as the surgeon didn't like the look of it, so I've been having annual screening for some years now. A vaccine would be very...

Last week I had an online “Initial Appointment Group Session” with my local ME clinic, slightly behind schedule as I ‘celebrate’ 37 years at the end of this month. I’ve no idea what they thought I’d gain from it but I went along with it just to keep on their books. It started fairly...

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HRT has made all the difference to me. I went from 3-4 hours sleep a night for 18 months to a fairly normal sleep pattern within 2 weeks of starting a low dose. The first time I took progesterone I was so zonked I couldn't lift my head up for about twenty minutes. Being in the UK I had a GP...

Jim Shannon is a bit of a star. When we lived in NI he was our local councillor and MLA. If anyone wanted anything done locally, it was Jim they went to, even though we had four other MLAs representing our area as well. Many years ago I had to take my young sons to a Remembrance service at a...