*rises to the bait*
Yeah, but seriously, it must be quite depressing having a disease which rots your brainstem like that. We don't know what CAUSES it, but we do know the biomedical RESULTS. There's a difference. Your opinion seems to be stuck in the 80s.

Also, I don't have ME. It's not just people who are affected that know what they're talking about, y'know.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:28, 2 replies)

I don't have ME either
I'm just a lazy cunt.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:33, closed)

Are you sure it rots your brainstem?
Even the ME Association prefers Myalgic Encephalopathy to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:40, closed)

I prefer
ME = just feeling a bit bleugh.
(karnuvap, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:16, closed)

I dunno, I was being dramatic.
I know someone who's had it for going on 15 years now, and her latest tests showed that it was happening... but I don't know if it's symptomatic of ME, or something else.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:49, closed)

OK
it's just Myalgic Encephalomyelitis does mean inflammation of the brain/brain stem, which is what people used to think was a symptom of ME/CFS. But it's not. In fact there are almost no measurable symptoms which are consistent to all sufferers. My niece has been a sufferer for 15 years, I pick up a lot from her parents. Even they are convinced it's more a mental than a physical disorder
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:49, closed)

There are measurable symptoms.
You'll find the table in this interesting- it's a comparison with MS. www.hfme.org/mevsms.htm
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:16, closed)

It's not really an objective
or scientific study.

It's someone with ME complaining about how people don't undersand ME.

Lots of that about.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 17:14, closed)

Well I would have directed you here:
www.investinme.org/InfoCentre%20-%20Journal%20of%20IiME.htm
if I'd known that's what you were after.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 17:24, closed)