CFIDS

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• Clutter Buster

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  I had a visit this morning from my brother’s girlfriend.  She moved in with him a few months ago so she’s now local.  She’s been helping me with decluttering and sorting stuff out in preparation for moving house (not found a house to move to yet though).She came to do a bit more today, to [...]
  2 days ago

• Lets Hope Effective Treatment is Just Around the Corner!

  
  BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS — Authority: 469
  By DENISE GRADY Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome are infected with a little known virus that may cause or at least contribute to their illness, researchers are reporting. The syndrome, which causes prolonged and severe fatigue, body aches and other symptoms, has long been a mystery ailment, and ...
  3 days ago

• It is Tuesday,

  
  Never that Easy — Authority: 130
  and all day long Ive been thinking its Thursday. Both are Lil Girl days, which can explain some of the confusion, but one comes later in the week, meaning that I have the possibility of four days off in a row. Today is not that day. Today is Tuesday, which means I have only tomorrow off, if I am lucky, and that ...
  5 days ago

• No from NHS GP for LDN for ME/CFS

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  What a lot of letters. But it is (as expected) a no from my NHS GP for prescribing LDN for ME/CFS.She was apologetic, bless her.  But her hands are tied.One good thing came from it though (which I need to back up with some bits of paper) and that was to let her know that the [...]
  5 days ago

• Huh? I’m a Pain Meds Weirdo

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  I’ve been taking 20mg of amitriptyline nightly for pain relief since June 2007.In fact my post about it is one of the most visited on my blog so if you’ve landed here looking for info on amitriptyline as pain relief that post is the place to read more.Since I’ve been noticing pain creeping back in more [...]
  1 week ago

• Fireworks Fizzle

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  Wouldn’t it be lovely, I thought, to go to a bonfire this week and see a fireworks display? (Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and all that).Then I remembered 4 or 5 days have passed when I haven’t felt up to having an assisted bath.  How am I going to be up to going out, in the [...]
  1 week ago

• Brain Fog Blessing

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  Can that title be true? Can brain fog ever be a blessing?Thanks to a huge effort on Growler’s part my application to renew my Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is finally completed and being posted today.  A few weeks past my award ended but it’s finally finished.  Brain fog, cognitive, memory, sequencing and ...
  1 week ago

• 15 years and counting...

  
  Never that Easy — Authority: 130
  I turned 30 earlier this year, and, in the months leading up to that day, I was getting a whole lot of "Is turning thirty going to bother you?" "Do you think youre going to freak out?" "Does being 30 make you feel OLD?" type questions. I didnt think 30 was anything to freak out over, and told people so, even if I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disability Is …?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  (Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe , three rivers fog .) We had a really good discussion about non disability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability . And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is ...
  3 weeks ago

• CFS/ME and “faulty illness beliefs”: The incredible hubris of the psychiatro-patriarchal complex

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  This post was originally posted on March 19, 2009 at Hoyden About Town . New Scientist this week published an interview with infamous psychiatrist Simon Wessely. Wessely persists in believing, in the face of all the evidence, that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis (CFS/ME)* is a uniquely UK/American ...
  3 weeks ago

• Busy Getting Weary (Drawing)

  
  RachelCreative — Authority: 115
  A drawing I did 2 weeks ago when I seemed to be incredibly busy but not seeming to have much too prove for it except feeling incredibly weary.see this largeDrawn in ink with watercolour on A5 (approx 8″ x 6″).
  4 weeks ago

• Being Believed Continues

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  I saw my Lovely GP this week after my medication got flagged for review, meaning it’s been a year since I last saw her.  Nothing much has changed in the last year, in fact in the last 2 years.Seeing my Lovely GP, who is supportive about ME/CFS, usually leaves me feeling re-assured but a bit [...]
  4 weeks ago

• On Being Believed

  
  ChronicallyMe — Authority: 406
  So this XMRV retrovirus, the possibility of having a tangible test that shows a significant physiological finding, got me thinking about what it means to be believed.My family, my friends. my husband, my GP – they all believe I am very ill with ME/CFS and that is a physical condition.  But with nothing to point ...
  4 weeks ago

• I Fail To Know The Answers To My Most Important Questions ~

  
  Vulture Peak Muse — Authority: 111
  {FYI: photo uploaded using original post editor rather than "new and improved editor thingy" below, set on "large"! Rather a LARGE difference!}tweaked photo to go with my tweaked point of view~The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 weeks ago

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