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    Help!! Climbing Snowdon in 2 weeks and need some advice! :-)

    Hi svetoslav80, I was diagnosed with post-viral CFS in 2009 following having swine flu which didn't seem to get better even after several weeks. I was very ill for about a year and have been lucky enough to have only had one really bad relapse when I was working too many hours in 2012. I...
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    Help!! Climbing Snowdon in 2 weeks and need some advice! :-)

    Thank you all for your replies so far. I really didn't expect such an overwhelming response and I am very grateful for all your words of caution. I have been lucky so far in that I am able to live a reasonably normal life, but the more I read, the more I am realising that I may be putting that...
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    Help!! Climbing Snowdon in 2 weeks and need some advice! :-)

    Thank you Valentijn - I really do understand how hard it is going to be, especially after how I feel from this weekend, just walking up about 200 metres! I am going to think very hard about it before I do go through with it. I would love the challenge but I fear you are right and I will be in...
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    Help!! Climbing Snowdon in 2 weeks and need some advice! :-)

    Hi there everyone, this is my first post on this forum. :-) I have (rather insanely!) agreed to accompany my best friend up Mount Snowdon in Wales in just 2 weeks' time and I am nothing short of petrified. I have mild CFS and it only really flares up when I over-exert myself. I have been...