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Good luck!

Yes - I get so tired of Xmas cards saying "hope you're well." No I am bl**dy not!

In the second post, by @Michiel Tack.

Here is a link to a PR blogpost on the subject: Cancer researcher slams requirement for animal models | Phoenix Rising ME/CFS Forums There are several others. I can't write them now. Animal studies almost always fail in humans.

Animal studies are a waste of time, money and lives. I have spent years studying this.

I used to drink a lot - including after getting ME - then four years ago my alcohol tolerance disappeared almost completely. But I don't think I've tried anything except wine since then, so maybe I could manage something else?

I would be interested in such a study, but wonder whether alcohol is just one of many food and drink (and smell, sound, etc.) intolerances that develops during ME. It's one that didn't develop for about 21 years for myself. Smell intolerance developed much earlier - near the beginning.

I'm surprised to see this in a Michael Palin article in the Radio Times: "Actually at one point my thermometer went wrong and came up as 34.2...I realised that if it was accurate I'd be dead of hypothermia." Hardly, Michael! Human body temperature - Wikipedia 34 °C (93.2 °F) – Severe...

Is that the flu vaccine or the COVID vaccine? I've been offered the flu vaccine, and said no thanks (due to autoimmunity and fear of side-effects).

Note that he said somewhere around the middle that animal experiments were (almost always?) no good.

Could Ron Davis help? I don't know his email address but hopefully Simon M does. At least perhaps he could add some sense to the fools who are trying to put Holger into psychiatric care.

I have signed too.

Just want to add that I don't feel able to contribute to the consultation either, although a few years ago I could have very well. I'm reassured that others are taking it on, and doing extremely well from what I am able to take in.

"CBT in the form of graded exercise"?

Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but there are questions from an ME sufferer at 1.35: Coronavirus: Your vaccine questions answered by an expert - BBC News I thought that the response was rather vague.

Another useful option would be to specify one's gender, as we have rather significant differences down there! (I think that this would be ideal in all studies on ME, and probably most other diseases too.)

I used to get really bad cystitis (before and after getting ME), but haven't had it since I started taking cranberry juice tablets daily, not for years.

Do you get other infectious illnesses? I don't seem to have for many years, except possible COVID in February-March (mainly a gout-like toe infection). That lasted a month. Or else I just get things mildly for a couple of days.

No good if you neither have a car nor a cellphone!

Rehabilitation involving exercise appears inadvisable. Treatment also seems dodgy - no one knows how to treat it yet.