We at Patient UK Experience are really, really sorry but we have got several people trying to resolve the issue with the slowness, time out etc. It seems to work again after re-booting the server but we can't do that all the time.
Believe me - the Mods are having as much frustration as you all are.
If it is M.E it could have being triggered by a virus ahahaha
its taken me bout 10 mins to try and post this so proberly wont post much as i just havnt the patients anymmore, but i certainly know how the server feels