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    What Were Your First Symptoms of ME/CFS?

    My first symptoms were in my early forties, a time when I was exercising hard and eating well (or so I thought), and under quite a lot of career & relationship stress - but I was probably the healthiest and most athletic I'd ever been. It started with crazy sleep and terrible backache. I...
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    Poll Have Your ME/CFS and/or FM symptoms gotten better or worse since you first became ill?

    I think my condition is the same - what's changed is how I manage it. If I ate and behaved in the same way as when I started, I would undoubtedly return to the same old severity of symptoms. I know this because whenever I have to step out of my fairly rigid self-care at all, I do relapse to some...
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    Do You Think Having More Money Would Improve Your Health? How?

    Yes, in that it would remove a significant psychological stressor from wondering if I can afford to eat good quality food and pay my bills, and because it would allow me to take better care of myself when I can't (which is quite often). I'd also have all the tests mentioned in the research, to...
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    Poll How Well Informed Was the Last Doctor You Saw?

    I'm in UK, and as Tatt says, they're wholly clueless on this. I don't bother with them any more. The nearest I've got to knowledge in a doctor is a private one, but even he wasn't interested when I said 'CFS/ME, Stanford Uni latest findings, brain inflammation etc' - he just blocked it, didn't...

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