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That's the thing -they're all interconnected and it's not just endocine hormones but sex hormones too. For example, giving birth and the menopause can trigger thyroid problems. All the systems are related and connected in some way.

As someone with Hashimotos, diagnosed many years before ME, and having experienced poor information and under medication in the early years of being diagnosed with Hashimotos, I think it is almost impossible to say to what degree one will affect another. I was lucky enough to finally find a...

I think this might be the one @ Squeezy ? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-depression-epidemic-and-why-the-medical-profession-is-failing-patients-cgd08lbv6 You have to register to see the whole thing though. Also by Daily Mail journalist...

Our bodies demands for thyroid hormones can fluctuate a fair bit. Not as much as, say insulin, but a lot more than a lot of docs seem to understand. According to my endocrinologist anyway. I've noticed that I sometimes need to reduce my dose slightly in summer and increase in winter. Of...

Wow. Very powerful and moving @JaimeS. Thank you :hug:

Bolding mine. Is ME or CFS any more stress related than MS or rheumatoid arthritis or lots of other illnesses? Cause I don't think so. Any actual proof from any actual rigorous research?

Only managed to listen to a little bit (sound sensitive) but I tried to catch a bit of each song. Very, very good! Thanks @Liv aka Mrs Sowester and the inTune Choir. :thumbup::party:

I really dislike and distrust folk who go around speaking on my behalf without involving me or making me, as a patient, aware of what they're up to. It's not as though we're hard to find or engage with.

Well.....I've been a big fat chicken.... I was having a spot of bother with another med and as @James pointed out: I stopped and had a think and will wait until everything else has settled again before starting low and going slow. Even, after 20 years I still benefit from someone reminding...

I have tried both pranayama and meditation since developing ME and neither have improved the sharpness of my mind. Meditation techniques can be useful to make sure the mind gets some rest. Perhaps others fared better?

Another (or possibly additional) option would be to put the text (Required) in red coloured font. This will draw attention to the required fields and make it easier to see them and disregard the others.

Yes the options are there for people to ignore it, follow it, or do something different. They are also free to discuss it surely?

There is also the most sinister (for me) part, where vulnerable patients are told not to trust what their own bodies are telling them, that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lived experience. The damage to their health, their relationships is hard to express.

Well done for trying @janice. Of course, the cutting your time short, not bothering with with even the basic courtesy of acknowledging receipt of your email just underlines the complete ignorance and the fact this person didn't listen and couldn't be bothered to try to understand the nature of...

You only need to fill in the fields with the word "Required" by them @Sasha . So you just need to give your first and last name, plus email address and the country you're from. All of the information may be public except for you email address. So, if you give the minimum amount of info...

The thing I have never quite understood is how people seem to assume that a mental health label or treatment can never be harmful. Even when incorrect. If we are to assume that mental health interventions can be effective then this assumes they make a change to the behaviour/thoughts/feelings...

Generally, I feel really ill when I wake up. I never wake feeling well. Sometimes the awful feeling fades in half an hour, sometimes it doesn't fade at all and usually it's somewhere in between. With regard to resting - resting does not make me feel significantly better, but it stops me...

Anyone with enough cog function to write a coherent letter of complaint to the BBC pointing out that if someonenis touting themselves as an expert they should be doing it openly?

Sorry @Dx Revision Watch if I put you on the spot. I was so shocked at the news I completely failed to see your post stating you couldn't discuss it. Thank you so much for all the hard work you out into this. If it wasn't for you, I would be completely unaware of what was coming ....... Yes...

WHAT? After all your hard work and input? I was worried before, but now..... can you, are you prepared to say why? I have a horrible feeling we're being sold down the river here.