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L-carnitine can cause stomach upsets, I believe?

And there I was thinking the header referred to the number of benefits tribunals they'd lost ... :(

I thought I'd seen something (here?) about a Japanese woman who'd caught it a second time? Possibly because the virus had mutated?

Although we keep being told that a tribunal will warn you if you stand to lose (some of) your existing award, and ask if you still want to continue.

It is, but if they've got as far as filing a patent application, then surely they've done quite a bit of research beforehand?

There used to be a website, called maybe DoNotLink?, which would allow you to access sites such as the Daily Mail where you might not want to give them the satisfaction of recording your visit. I don't know if it still exists.

Don't think this one has been linked to, but I found it interesting. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/explosion-food-allergies-behind-boom/ (In the Saturday Telegraph Magazine 8th February, in case someone wants to look it up at their local library or whatever) Also, there seem to be some...

Re duvet covers, have you discovered the trick: 1. Have cover inside-out. 2. Stick both arms into cover and grab each of the far corners with one hand. 3. While still holding those corners, grab hold of the corresponding corners of your duvet as well. 4. Then "shake" the cover off your arms and...

I don't know whether they still make them, but somewhere I have a rubbery/plasticky "triangular cylinder" is the best way I can describe it, which fits over normal-thickness pens and pencils to make them easier to grasp. It used to belong to my mum, who had arthritis or something similar in her...

What about testing donated jigsaws for charity shops? Or is there too much time pressure? Some places apparently just count the pieces, but that's stupid, because a "500-piece jigsaw" doesn't necessarily have exactly 500 pieces. If you can hold the needles, crocheting things and knitting a...

My sister has some cloth things with strips of copper interwoven for cleaning scale - she's quite impressed with them, but maybe they might require too much rubbing effort to be useful here? They came from some mail order company or other.

My understanding is that even "full-time" GPs have a day off a week for study (and no, I'm not having a go at the definition of "full-time" - GPs work ****** hard).

This was on the front page of yesterday's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/07/dwp-benefit-related-suicide-numbers-not-true-figure-says-watchdog-nao :(

I can understand the reference to "gains" in the sense of the supposedly typical pwME being someone who's very driven and overworked (not for nothing was it nicknamed "yuppie flu") being forced to slow down and cut down on work/activity at one end of the spectrum, but NOT e.g. in the case of my...

Can't read it because The Times has been playing up for a week or 2 on my computer, but I think one of the other British tennis players has had CFS as well - was it Katie Boulter? (There does seem to be a higher-than-average incidence of glandular fever among tennis players - it's been...

Is this a new one? And if so, can we Brits still sign it?

( Compression stockings are available on prescription in the UK, although weirdly enough, since they come in a pack of two, it's one prescription charge per stocking :( )

Not to mention allergic reactions, as unfortunately happened to someone I know of on her wedding day - despite the invitations specifically asking people to avoid perfume/aftershave/hairspray. She ended up being hospitalised. Those scents have certainly triggered migraines in me before now.

And here's me wondering whether my caree might do better reverting to one of the -triptylines than she currently is on the mirtazapine! Horses for courses, I guess ... (Edit: oops, that's in response to some rather old postings - should have checked before I posted)

Thanks for the confirmation, everyone. Yes, she does have tinnitus, too, which may be related, and she is having a particularly bad crash at the moment. If anyone's found a way of dealing with it, please do post! It's getting her very stressed at the moment.