What ME :shock:
Thought i'd bring this to the top as just seen a few new members :D .
Still amazes ME just how many symptoms there are, and that we could tick just about the whole lot at any one time :shock:
Then when you talk (well, when you can get the right words out :x ) to someone about what you are sufforing from, they always reply ' Oh, i get that also', making us look like twits :evil:
Hi there James :D
Yes, good idea to bring this thread forward .... :ok:
I do know exactly what you mean by well folk 'jumping on the bandwagon' when we are describing our ME symptoms ..... it absolutely makes me see red ... particularly as they invairably laugh when they make the comparisons :evil:
I started up a thread on it some time ago, as I was so incensed :evil:
They have absolutely no idea how awful we actually feel most of the time :roll:
It's because they don't know what to say, the same as when someone has died. So they say what they think will communicate understanding and instead show up their ignorance.
Much better in instances like these would be to say nothing. That is what we were taught on my bereavement course that I did as part of my Funeral Directors Certificate.
People are afraid of silence though, so they say inappropriate things. :roll:
I very rarely discuss my illness these days other than on this forum :roll:
Hello - yes exactly, Alicia. Just had to explain fibro to my dentist :shock:
- at least he was sympathetic about it though and did seem to know that it was similar to ME
Hello James, glad you're around :D ; and a good idea to bring the symptoms thingy to the top :thepost: .
Gosh, it makes scary reading doesn't it :shock: scary when you realise that you have almost everything on the list :roll:
Thank goodness we all understand each other :hug:
oh hello Katie, :smiley: I think we posted at the same time - no, nor do I unless I have to :roll:
Wonder what ever happened to Jay :?
I often wonder that too Teedie ...... I miss him