If you can only see the scotoma in one eye, it may be retinal migraine. I get these, but have never suffered from the headache forms of migraine....
It's a difficult one to pin down, as it can just mean that our brains are giving us duff information. We get bulletins telling us that we're too...
They're designed for situations where a pathogen is or may be present, so the assumption is that everyone will be wearing protective masks....
If you're looking for a decent supplier, medisave.co.uk is one of them. I've bought all my masks from them during the pandemic, as it's not...
That could be the intention behind the entire experiment.
Not quite that bad! I was hoisted out of a swimming pool a few hours ago, and I'd say it's much less than the weight you feel when your weak legs...
Fatigue is abnormal, so I'm not really sure how to answer – fatigue is usually only associated with illness, and unlike tiredness, doesn't resolve...
Definitely! I'm once again wrangling with the problem of explaining to a GP that I can clearly differentiate between ME and non-ME fatigue, as one...
I had the same difficulty, although for a slightly different reason. For me, overexerting by a lot or a little causes the same duration of PEM,...
When I had my stair lift, I found the issue of getting dirty washing down fairly straightforward – I just hurled it from the top of the stairs....
I don't have POTS, I just get blood pooling in my legs if I have to stand for more than a few seconds, which causes horrible nausea and...
If anyone needs warm clothes to go out in a wheelchair, or gets really, really cold indoors, I can't recommend Buffalo clothing enough. It's...
Definitely all right! I really struggle with lots of images and competing colours, especially when I'm trying to get important information from...
Thank you for that, I'll try and remember it next time I get my bizarrely-cold-lower legs thing. I had heard of hypoglycaemia causing the...
I think I've aways had "not very well" chills going right back into childhood. They usually meant accumulated tiredness (e.g., at the end of a...
I wasn't allowed to take HRT because of a family history of breast cancer after using hormonal contraceptives, but going through a pretty hideous...
I also wonder about the simple approach of routinely asking patients to come to an annual review prepared with a list of the five things that are...
Inexperienced ME patients also often mistake PEM for infections, and may believe they're unusually susceptible when they're not. My friends and I...
Sadness is associated with any downturn in health, surely? (Though perhaps you're asking why something so blindingly obvious would be noted in a...
:rofl: :rofl: That made me spit out my orange juice! [ATTACH]
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