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I am confused!: I can well believe that abdominal compression is a help. (I got a thing called a ‘waist trainer’ a couple of years ago. They seem to be big thing in the beauty self-image community. It is not uncomfortable at all, once on but it is exhausting to put on, so I seldom do it.) I had...

So glad to hear that the automatic, unthinking, ‘sleep hygiene’ mumble is being questioned.

Has anyone tried Apple Watch with the AutoSleep App? According to them I seldom have ‘deep’ sleep (unsurprising); occasionally 20 min to 1 hour, a very few times 2 hours. If I get more ( it’s never a lot of, or enough) sleep, with some deep sleep, I’m definitely less exhausted in the morning...

Ditto, Ditto. To have the help I need, and I don’t consider myself a severe case, I would need: a daily cleaner/tidier, a cook ( I am bedbound except for these things); a chauffeur (I am housebound), a bookkeeper, an IT technician, someone to run ordinary errands, someone to remind me of...

I have wondered about this for years - after having several viruses every year in childhood and adulthood, when I finally came down with ME, when older, 5-6 years ago, I never never got a sniffle. And I was often exposed, via friends. BUT this year I moved to the UK, and moved in with a toddler...

I am female! Though I quite like my unspecific name!

Interesting ideas in many ways. @zzzz, I too have been on a stable dose of clonazepam (.5 to .75 mg. per day) since 2003, before ME; it was prescribed for years of crippling insomnia. People react with horror when I’ve mentioned that I take it regularly - but it was and is a necessity, and I...