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In my experience, women and men can be equally adept at spotting bullshit when they see it. Same with conspiracy theories. A lot depends on age and experience. Much of this crap is targeted at women, for sure, because the institutional sexism in medicine means their health needs have never been...

I know what you mean, but it's fairly straightforward to project a different impression for a short time if you need to. I can't fool anyone who knows me well in any case; if I'm more unwell than usual, they spot it straight away. Don't ask me how! As long as they didn't change the key features...

I've never grown out of my tendency to find anger incredibly funny. People just pull the most hilarious faces! It's one thing as an autistic kid, but a bit more embarrassing as a middle-aged, so-called professional... :rofl:

Me too. Someone even once described me as the happiest person they know. Even though I have multiple chronic conditions, I still feel incredibly lucky. They could have been so much worse, or I could have been one of those people who can't find joy in the most ordinary of things. Other people...

No – or the radiology burns. Or having most of your chest muscle removed or rendered non-functional. Or having to lug around ridiculously heavy implants. Or the crumbling joints after all the steroids. Or the lymphoedema. Makes you wonder why some halfwit thinks they need to come up with a...

Yes, I'm snappy too when I'm at my limit, but then again I always was. The only thing different is the inability to recall the particular swear word I wanted to use, because my brain's seized. :laugh:

I agree, but I've been trying to reassure myself that NICE and the NHS don't themselves have an interest in the BPS approaches. There's no point spending money on clinics and services that don't help, when patients could be managed via existing GP resources. It's therefore in NICE's interest...

I suspect a lot depends on how long you've been ill. If you've recently lost your income, home, or relationship, or you're struggling to care for your children, of course you're going to be emotional. After 45 years, it's impossible to get emotional about something you can't even remember not...

Or Brian Hughes

I'm relieved to hear this happened to others, I felt like a bit of a freak when most seemed to have very little reaction at all, or an exacerbation of ME symptoms. I'm hoping – although not expecting – that it'll happen again next month when I have O-AZ #2. It was lovely while it lasted!

Desperation?

Yeah, it's nothing to do with patients or illness, is it. The danger of support groups is that bright, articulate people get to talk to one another about who's gaslighting them, and discuss how to resist using better arguments and a firmer grasp of scientific principles. That's really not on, is it.

I think one of the differences may be that we have a series of directly-controlled government departments led by ministers of state, plus hundreds and hundreds of executive agencies, arms-length bodies, and quangos that are publicly funded but may or may not be directly controlled by a...

It does looks interesting. If there's no explanation for it that's already understood, it needs replicating and then studying further with a carefully defined group of patients. If it's real, and unusual, it could be important.

How interesting – my experience is similar, but not quite the same. I have red hair and skin that can't tan at all, so severe sunburn was frequent in the days before the effective sunscreens that came onstream in the 1980s. They do still happen, of course. I burnt my wheelchair controller hand...

Yes, indeed. For me, a good part of PEM is immune-type symptoms (after the sleeplessness, the second symptom is always my throat swelling up so much that my neck disappears), and it's not possible to provoke that within minutes. So soon after exertion, it's just fatiguability, the effects of...

If anyone wants to watch it on a laptop or desktop, I think it might be possible to block the hands by making a couple of blank browser windows, and sizing and positioning them so they cover them. Fortunately, the subtitles seem to occupy a narrow space in the centre of the screen – I've only...

This is an aside, but I spotted this same account a week or so ago. Initially it came across as a potentially like-minded group of allies, but it quickly got a bit weird. I'm only posting it in case anyone decides to retweet their stuff without reading all of it; let's say that it's unclear...

I'm glad to see that at least one MP, Alex Norris, has a presence. He's my MP, and I'm hoping to recruit his help with disseminating information locally (and if possible, get mentions in Parliament or committees) about DecodeME once formal recruitment is launched. I haven't yet met him; I knew...

It is good. Designing the zero gravity effect, so that you can shift the chair by making tiny postural or weight adjustments and then it stays balanced there even if you don't lock it, is an engineering feat on its own! My mum had a good quality modern one, but it took a lot of muscle effort to...