The Sun article - INVISIBLE ILLNESS The 5 signs your constant tiredness is actually chronic fatigue syndrome – as 90% of cases are missed (Aug 2019)

Contibutions from Dr Sarah Jarvis, Charles Shepherd (MEA), Sonia Chowdhury(AfME), Leonard Jason.

although they do say it's not just 'tiredness' they do seem to focus on it!

at least they didn't ask Michael Sharpe for his opinion..

full article here
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9...c-fatigue-syndrome-as-90-of-cases-are-missed/

 

Worth looking at the patient info. It’s pretty good. We discussed it on Facebook previously, it’s not perfect eg activity management, reverse therapy promo & severe definition but it’s much better than the usual establishment stuff and the dr Sarah Jarvis is a media dr so useful to have onside.

 

It's actually not a bad article! If this sort of story is filtering down to papers like the Sun, then it's getting to lots of new people. And it's not pitched as a them-and-us ME article, but as you-might-be-suffering-from-ME, which possibly makes people more likely to read.

 

I wish I'd known (when I had the mild version of the illness without knowing it) that the following were symptoms:

- light sensitivity
- waking up too early

 

wow, that was quite a good article! What a pleasant surprise.

this bit

made me laugh... I mean if only! right?
I think she meant brushing your teeth or turning over in bed, rather than walking to the shops, I'd love to walk to the shops, they really have got no concept of how severe it gets do they.

But hey other than that it's excellent, top marks to the Sun

 

I agree the patient.info site seems to be pretty good, that is the 'for professionals' page at least, it aint perfect but crumbs it's the best mainstream thing I've seen in yrs.
The non professional page persists in going on about 'tiredness'.... ugh! but otherwise it's not bad.

 

Very good.