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  1. JemPD

    Let's talk wheelchairs and mobility scooters

    One thing i would love to know, is whether any of these chairs/scooters are drivable by someone standing/walking with you... like a bicycle would be. I ask because ive never investigated getting one despite hating the fact that i have to be pushed everywhere in the manual chair & i'd love the...
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    Closed Uni of Edinburgh: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia in those aged 45 and older – the impact of emotions

    great @Trish perhaps this study has already been thoroughly critiqued & the crit is the subject of this complaint Members only - Reddit post: "Nothing about us without us" advocacy group making research more difficult. How to handle? | Science for ME (s4me.info) It just research such as this...
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    Closed Uni of Edinburgh: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia in those aged 45 and older – the impact of emotions

    I hope you will write to them @Trish you have written very eloquently there. I wish Jonathan were overseeing these projects, if we could clone you thatd be marvellous :D
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    Closed Uni of Edinburgh: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia in those aged 45 and older – the impact of emotions

    I take major issue with participants not having to have a formal diagnosis! So everyone who thinks they feel 'tired all the time' & therefore believes themselves to have CFS but actually maybe have depression, and those who fart a lot & decide they have IBS, or those who decide they have fibro...
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    Please help me find new bedding in the UK

    I am very sensitive to smells too, and have bought and used those sheets without een washing first, on more than one occasion if i remember correctly. So witha good long wash i think they would be fine, for sure they have no ongoing smell like other things have done in my experience. And i can...
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    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    Well its taken 17 days but i finally feel back to my normal. The intense flu like feeling with chills & major body aches & horrid headache, plus drowsy sleepy crushing fatigue appeared at 24hrs ish, lasted till 72 hrs (only difference between it & PEM is that jab side effects give no cognitive...
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    Please help me find new bedding in the UK

    yes actually i bought couple of sheets from there not long ago i will look which ones, they were very smooth & soft ETA: White 300 TC easy care cotton with tencel
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    Please help me find new bedding in the UK

    Just a note that jersey sheets i find much too hot.
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    Please help me find new bedding in the UK

    I need sheets to be uber smooth, i find even high count cotton too rough, especially when not ironed, & silk feels too 'weird'. i use these, very cool & smooth. They only do plain though Comfortably Cool Duvet Cover | M&S (marksandspencer.com)
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    Orthostatic Symptoms and Reductions in Cerebral Blood Flow in Long-Haul COVID-19 Patients: Similarities with ME/CFS, 2021, Rowe et al

    Noticed you posting & wondering how are you feeling @Jonathan Edwards ? ... been thinking about you after reading omicron on another thread hope you ok?
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    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    Thanks @Snow Leopard would it be accurate to say it is scientifically impossible for a PCR test to give a positive result for any other virus than the one it is testing for? And, if so, wondering how i can prove that is not merely my opinion?
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    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    Now 8 days since pfizer booster & i feel bl'dy awful. I started day 2 with 'flu like' - to be expected. But it hasnt gone away yet. Not panicking, just very fed up. At least i hope it's still the jab effects... if its now PEM, after the minute amount of activity i been doing... that would...
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    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    Just had a disagreement with someone who believes that the PCR test gets covid confused with flu & that a lot of the positive reuslts are for flu but reported as covid. Citing this as evidence Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing - ie that the CDC are stopping using it. But i...
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    ME Aware Surgical Teams UK?

    Sound sensitivity. In my experience there are few places louder than a hospital ward. Hi @Jjess welcome to S4 I'm sorry i cant help with your question but i hope you manage to find what you need
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    United Kingdom: Bath paediatric CFS/Fatigue clinic - Esther Crawley; Phil Hammond

    Is that a spoof? he is gonna get some seriously gross photos if he not careful! in addition.... I would love to 'enjoy' my wild & precious life, you patronising ***! but all i can do is endure it, and your BPS cronies are a big part of the reason why.
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    The Chrysalis Effect

    sounds like a youtube ad. dangerous nonsense
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    The Chrysalis Effect

    Gp training... ugh God forbid
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    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    such a hard decision, i feel for you & the others here in similar predicament. the worst of it is having no useful medical involvement, knowledge, support, as usual we get bugger all :emoji_unamused:
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    NEW POLL! Are these good ‘ME’ images for the media? (See explanatory post)

    I'd be so happy if any one of those photos was used instead of the usual awful pics they use. well done sasha & simon & everyone who contibuted i hope charities will runwith this
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    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    well i had pfizer thought i was goin get away with it, but yikes 26hrs on same, the aching all over + nausea are gettin intense, no fever yet hope it desnt come.
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