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I suffer from this too. It is hugely annoying. I am pre-diabetic and I am fairly sure that also means I am insulin resistant. Although I don't understand the connection I'm sure there must be one.

I had blood tests done by the NHS at the end of last year. They were the first ones I'd had instigated by my GP surgery in 8 years.

Title : Thyroid Dysfunction and COVID-19: The Emerging Role of Selenium in This Intermingled Relationship Link ...

If I was healthy and decided to "choose an identity" for myself (something that I think sounds extremely bizarre and frankly very odd) it would be something far more cheerful and positive than being ill or disabled. I could be the woman who wears purple. (Does that count as "an identity"?) Or...

Sorry, I obviously got the wrong end of the stick somewhere.

I'm not sure if this is important, and I may have got the wrong end of the stick somewhere. :D I was just thinking that people in the UK who have been diagnosed with ME and have had it recorded in their medical records will also (probably) have a history of visits to their doctors before and...

From the quote in post 591... This is welcome for US patients obviously. But just think how much history of the condition in a patient will be missing.

@Amw66 The link you give is to a private account. Nobody will be able to read it. I don't know anything about Instagram. Can your daughter choose to make a single page public?

In my personal experience being ill gets me ignored. If my aim was to get attention then choosing to pretend to be ill would be a very poor strategy.

Why Do Patients With Gout Not Take Allopurinol? I don't know if gout affects men more than women, or if gender is at all relevant. But I bet if they had done a study using female subjects they would have studied anxiety and depression as reasons for non-adherence.

Translation and reality = All sick people are mentally ill and just don't think right. We'll give you CBT and that's all you'll get. If you don't like it, tough. You'll just have to suck it up, Sunshine.

I can imagine that this "research" was supported by government and insurance companies so that they can claim anyone with Long Covid is a drunk, secret or otherwise. If it becomes common knowledge then sufferers saying that they have Long Covid are at risk of being accused of being mad drunks.

I've seen a few references to "platelet hyperactivation" in recent days. What does this actually mean? And would a person with this problem have high levels of platelets?

I've never received a diagnosis of ME, although I believe I fit the criteria. I have actively avoided a diagnosis. If I have it I am not aware of it being triggered by a virus. In my case I had an intermittent long-term GI bleed. It went on for several years. By 2013 I had been referred to...

That is a description of the people most likely to be disbelieved and gaslighted by doctors. Anyone who has suffered from excruciating pain with no treatment, repeatedly over the course of years, is likely to struggle with their mental health, and depression and anxiety are likely to be common...

There are subtitles. They default to Indonesian but they can be auto-translated to English. The introductory text from Youtube : ME/CFS, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a severe neuroimmunological disease. Not much is known about the disease, and there is virtually no treatment. However...

I was thinking about 15g protein, three times a day, plus normal meals. It could add up to quite a lot of protein.

I thought high protein diets were implicated in kidney damage and disease. I don't know what constitutes "high protein" though.

People with Long Covid don't all have the same symptoms. Why should doctors freedom to treat depending on symptoms be taken away? And using questionnaires might save time and resources but they are almost never designed well. Are they suggesting that PEM and ME/CFS are psychiatric problems? I...

You might find something useful on this site : https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/ And this site for the RNID - Royal National Institute for the Deaf has info on tinnitus : https://rnid.org.uk/ Tinnitus gets discussed on this thread ...