@ThePOTSPostman
I am currently on my 2nd week in hospital severe M.E only able to swallow tiny sips of water NG tube fed. Low platelets, high prothrombin I think I have Gastroparesis today doctor said I'm a mystery! And should try & eat ! It's so hard to get them to understand !
@Naomi_D_Harvey
@ThePOTSPostman
I don't know but they also are doing a psych assessment! unfortunately I can see where this is heading ! Being left to starve to death like many others we have lost from our M.E community. I'm mentally strong but have my limits !Doctors tend to come and see me when I'm asleep!
@JanetDafoe
@ThePOTSPostman
Thank you so much Janet .
The doctors here have decided to remove my NG next week & get a psych assessment also a speech therapist to try and help me to eat ! I'm mentally strong but it's hard to deal with medical professionals that know nothing about severe M.E .๐
@NeurologistMom
Yes we need a new name .I have severe M.E mainly bedbound I find CFS insulting as its used as a label to prevent us from accessing treatments that could help & used to stigmatise us .It has to change !
I've been left in a dangerous state many times due to the CFS label .
@swastrosarah
@ThePOTSPostman
@The_MRC
Thank you ๐ I've not been tested for Gastroparesis recently but 12 years ago capsule camera test showed I had slow gastric emptying. Tried to tell doctor this yesterday he said If anyone is tested due to stress they will get a diagnosis of Gastroparesis even himself!
@Silas33
Thank you Stephen I crashed out during the lunch break woke up 6hrs later gutted I missed
@BhupeshPrusty
talk.I guess it's pretty ironic crashing out during an M.E conference๐
@tweetingmole
@TomKindlon
@Dan_Wyke
Predictable! I'm guessing the "Top doctors" are psychologicyst! Why can't they concentrate on the many patients that actually need psychological help and leave us alone Ffs !
#ME
#spoonies
@JulesAHouston
Thank you Julie l have severe M.E No medical help I crashed out missed over half the conference ๐but from what I did see it blows my mind how we can still be ignored & stigmatized there's so much proof!
@Silas33
@TwigGlobe
@AlanCarson15
Seems like the pshyc's who treat us in this way need to work on their behaviour & their own false beliefs, specifically their inability to accept scientific evidence .
@TheSunshineVit1
@louise_today
@Silas33
I have crohn's disease ( in remission) That fatigue is nothing like PEM it's more like feeling very worn out .I have severe M.E & would swap back to active crohn's in a heartbeat .
@DafoeWhitney
Sometimes it's so difficult not to do that, especially when we are made to feel like we choose to be ill by the miseducated.Take care ๐
To all the Doctors that like to gaslight patients with M.E (NOT Cfs) maybe you should educate yourselves rather than do more harm !!
I and many many others are waiting for the cure you have blocked & buried the science so you can continue your narrative .Shame on you!
We need to share this as widely as possible
#SaveCarlasLife
Carla has now been having seizure-like events for over FIVE DAYS yet
@WestMidHospital
has STILL not sent a neurologist to see her, as of 10am today. She had NEVER had them before being admitted there
#ExposeMENow
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@cfs_jo
I wake up with adrenaline rush like symptoms but rarely dream .I have the visible app & arm band I get heart rate as high as 160 & as low as 30 whilst sleeping I have severe M.E almost very severe not been able to swallow hardly anything just tiny sips since boxing day.
@MarieThereseBka
I have severe M.E Nurse came to do blood tests asked why are you in bed ? Is it Just M.E! So infuriating !
Also chest consultant there's nothing wrong with your breathing just deconditioned ! Do some exercise ! Discharged me ! I'm bedbound it's crazy the way we are treated !.
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@sinusdoc_nj
@ThePOTSPostman
No I'm still vomiting. Not had brainstem mri only small bowel mri & gastroscopy .I asked doctors if I could have an NJ they said No they need to do more assessments including a psych assessment! Apparently swallowing difficulties aren't M.E related so the doctors say ๐
Imagine being so sick itโs agony to eat, going to hospital for help, instead doctors cancel referrals, ignore expertsโ instructions & cause MORE pain, whilst you rapidly deteriorate to seizures & unconsciousness because they think
#ExposeMENow
is psychological
#SaveCarlasLife
@agy_lena
I totally feel the same ! I really wish I was the type of person who is happy to do nothing but even doing nothing we are fighting just to exist .
@saffronandsky
@Rivkatweets
I asked my gastro consultant recently if I could go back on it but he can only authorise it for active crohn's disease unfortunately.Tbh rather have active crohn's than severe M.E in a heart beat but its in remission.
@exceedhergrasp1
Thank you Jaime I completed up to chapter 5 not had email for 6 ,I'm severe/very severe is there a link I seem to have lost my login can you or anyone help please .
@MissFlowerPixie
That's very interesting as I got my first M.E.symptoms shortly after having the oral polio vaccine I was also on steroids for Crohn's at the time I've never considered a connect before.
@paulie_paulie
If I don't eat my body keeps my blood sugars in normal range .Blood pressure & heart rate all over the place crazy lows & highs low ox sats I'm trying to monitor everything to send evidence to my GP any advice what to do ? I'm bedbound with limited cognitive function .
Carlaโs parents brought her to West Middlesex hospital because of malnutrition secondary to severe ME. Instead of nutritional support, sheโs been detained by psychiatrists whoโve prevented her from being seen by gastro. Her health is declining and she could die
#SaveCarlasLife
@DafoeWhitney
It must take you so long and so much energy to write ! ...it takes me hours to just reply to a message.Thank you so much for everything you do ๐
Any one know of any
#dentist
's in East Sussex who do home visits or have
#NHS
places available with wheelchair acsess ?
I haven't been to the dentist for 3 yrs due to severe M.E.
#ME
#spoonie
The neglect of
#MECFS
patients is the biggest medical scandal of the 21st century. We are screaming from our beds for help. Who is going to expose this once and for all?
#SaveCarlasLife
#ExposeMENow
I just unlocked Amaterasu's Necklace in the Chronic Illness Survey Adventure! Can you help us achieve balance by sharing this message? We need to be sure we get enough people with
#MECFS
,
#POTS
,
#MCAS
,
#hEDS
,
#LongCOVID
, & healthy controls.
@agy_lena
I'm similar 5ft 9 & 64kg my readings on body analysis scales look like I'm very fit borderline athletic .I'm almost totally bedbound for over 10yrs lost count tbh .Even still have defined abs despite hardly moving .