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  1. sewnsew

    Tina Tidmore on the RADIO! Spreading Critical Information on ME/CFS!

    Thank you, Tina for an excellent job. I echo everyone else's sentiments. Had I your cognitive ability and your grasp of our plight I still could not have expressed myself half as well. So glad you are there for us!
  2. sewnsew

    Can you trace your illness back to about 1980?

    A virus from hell in 1982, when I returned to the workforce during the very early hormones-waning phase of my life, began a struggle that finally felled me in 1990. BUT in my mid 20s an unsuspected sensitivity to a decongestant prescribed for "chronic sinusitis" in 1971 threw me into what I now...
  3. sewnsew

    Can you trace your illness back to about 1980?

    Yes, after a severe month-long flulike illness w/sore throat during a happily busy time in my life in 1982. Symptoms, including pain, slowly piled up after that until they permanently disabled me in the early 1990s.