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  1. J

    What Happened in the early eighties?

    I'd like to share my story because it reflects almost exactly what so many people w/CFSME have also shared. In appx. 1986, at age 20 I noticed i was starting to feel fatigued and sickly more often than before, and certainly more than my peers. I was working full time and going to school, and...
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    What Happened in the early eighties?

    YES! My pet theory is that HIV/AIDS took ALL the money, attention, etc that the govt/scientific/ medical worlds were willing to give at that time, which happened to be the 1980s. AIDS scared the general population spitless--can you imagine what kind of panic would have taken hold if there had...
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    Article: In the Dragon's Jaws: How To Be Sick - A Buddhist Guide to CFS by Toni Bernhardt #1

    Thanks Cort! I've been lurking around awhile, I have CFS, and I just wanted to say thanks to you for all your posts! They are almost always helpful to me and I realized that I don't think I've ever said that to you. Today I got to thinking about how much encouragement I would need to write...
  4. J

    How can I post a Forum?

    Or is this reserved for the Big Daddies?:winking: I do really love this site & I feel like I've learned as much here as anywhere else, and 2x as fast (which is still very slow for me) and it's great to read the opposing views so I don't feel like I'm being fed a bunch of #@%&!!!
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    Hi From TX-Q.about CFS & Hep C

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    Retrovirology Publishes Five Papers on XMRV and Contamination

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    jaariel

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    Azithromycin & Mycoplasma

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    Peter White/Barts - comments on draft NICE guidelines - insight into their views

    what century are we living in? The middle ages? This a a travesty of unparallelled proportions!!!
  10. J

    Peter White/Barts - comments on draft NICE guidelines - insight into their views

    Shakespeare
  11. J

    Peter White/Barts - comments on draft NICE guidelines - insight into their views

    It's Just like I've been telling my husband for years: we're branded "The Lazy Crazies" by the medical profession!
  12. J

    Comment by 'jaariel' in 'Sometimes the Only Thing Left to Do is Laugh!'

    pretty funny!
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  13. J

    Mold, Dr. Cheney and ME/CFS

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    Article: A XMAS VIDEO

    I'm brand new to this site, and profoundly grateful to have found it! And this video is Fantastic!!!