It sounds like you found just the right chair, @Evergreen! :party: You'll get better at steering, but it's always a bit awkward. Free-spinning...
Just had my invite (UK) for the spring Covid booster. I'd half expected for there to be no more updates—it feels as if Covid's officially...
I'm not a scientist so I don't understand any of this, but does it fit with there being no shortage of "energy" (whatever that consists of) once...
Maybe it doesn't necessarily have to be? It's true I haven't come across many who experienced rapid remissions, but there are far more who first...
I don't know which clinics still offer it, only that I still come across posts in social media groups from people receiving CBT. Some are...
Of course you should be entitled to treatment—in a fair world, you'd be entitled to compensation—but it's not about ME/CFS. It's about undoing the...
Not in ME/CFS or SLE, though, surely? That'd be like trying to work out what sort of paint works best on trees. It might be interesting to see...
I'm not convinced it always is the same. I don't mean the underlying aims, more that CBT tends to be offered as a fixed course. It runs on rails,...
I don't think so. The belief that CBT can help with ME/CFS was always that, a belief. There was never any evidence. Belief is hard to change...
No idea what any of this work means, but at least I've gained a glorious new word!
Interesting article from Benefits & Work: https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-launches-entirely-bogus-green-paper-consultation
If the changes do go through, PIP's going to be a nightmare. It's bad enough now, with people waiting a year for the outcome of reassessments, but...
:rofl: And the £775 isn't till 2029/30. So a really smelly bin.
Great—not even as much as the Covid uplift.
I think that's how I read it too, although they are talking about an increase in the basic rate of UC to give some compensation (a fair bet that...
PS: I was advised to head off questions about pets in advance. When I first claimed mobility allowance in 2002 I told them I had a cat; luckily...
It's the luck of the draw to some extent, and our approaches all differ anyway. I just know mine was stronger for being written in a different...
This is a post from the PEM Discussion thread—hope @MrMagoo doesn't mind me answering it here! I wonder if we sometimes understate how...
Just to let you know I'm writing a couple of thoughts about this in the benefits thread, as it risks taking this one off topic.
Me too, in bad PEM. Seems to be the same as whatever's going on with the big swollen neck glands. Sometimes I only have one sore underarm gland,...
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