I don't know how the science comes into it, but for the record I've never thought it's coming to rescue me. Even if I did, it's a struggle not...
The improvements in scores don't look huge, do they? Even a small improvement is a worthwhile result, obviously—what I mean is the drug as it's...
Benefits & Work have set up a form for people who have no 4-point scores for PIP daily living to report what the impact on them would be:...
I'm not sure they all do, though of course plenty will. There's that US expression—moral injury—where employees are put in a position where...
I had to look it up to check the meaning. I'm familiar with it, but only in the verb form "pep up", meaning to liven up. Even that's so dated that...
Yep. Also by the number of the who get burning muscle pain (particularly in the quads) after activity, who report that the pain only sets in when...
It's not about faith. It's about knowing ME/CFS can always be made worse, and it's easy to fool yourself into thinking something's working when...
I'm sure this is right, @JemPD. They never assessed me for ESA at all; at the time, one of the tests for the support group was the same as for the...
The other thing about this is that in mild or mild-moderate ME/CFS there may be a warm-up effect, a momentum effect, or both. I've found this...
They've only mentioned phasing it out for new claimants. I haven't seen any mention of existing claimants. It's unlikely they've given it much...
I don't understand why this is important enough to repeat. It's fine for people not to want to join the forum if they don't like the way we...
Thing is, if someone asks a question here—e.g. "Does it put a lot of people off joining the forum?"— they'll get a discussion. If someone makes...
Yes, it's not something to worry about. My cousin says there was a lot of UC fraud when Covid hit, and there are still some issues it. It wasn't...
:hug: They'll always write to you in late March/early April about the uprating, and in December about the Christmas bonus. Eventually you get...
The word "we" seems to be doing a lot of work. Presumably "we" would need to be warned of the substantial risks and tiny likelihood of success....
My GP did explain it to me—it was something to do with the relationship to aspirin, which is known to aggravate symptoms in some asthmatics—but I...
Ibuprofen just seemed to worsen my asthma (I used to get quite extreme period pain and tried it as part of attempting to relieve that), but I...
It is appalling, and way beyond anything I'd experienced before. I really feel for you, and hope you can find some solutions. Had I not been able...
That's a good point, @Peter Trewhitt. I haven't felt under so little stress since I was about six. After leaving work I had to sort out applying...
You left out sharks, avalanches and passive aggressive managers.
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