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This is a simple 5-second poll for anyone who has ever tried a B12 supplement in any form. Many thanks to everyone who responds! Please feel free to share your experience in more detail in a post.

May 12, 2020: It's Our International ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day by Jody Smith On May 12, our International ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day, I tend to look back over the years since I was first flattened by ME/CFS. Things changed for the better for me when I found my community. I'd already lived...

A Look at COVID-19 Through the Eyes of ME/CFS by Jody Smith I have been self-isolating for over two weeks now. Not because of COVID-19. At least, not at first. Like many of you, I spend a great deal of time in my house because of ME/CFS. I was housebound due to a resurgence of ME/CFS symptoms...

I thought I would start a thread to collect quotes from the life of Dr. Byron Hyde, who has had a front-row seat to some of the most important events that have occurred in the field of ME/CFS: On the Akureyri outbreak: On the Royal Free outbreak: On McEvedy and Beard's paper calling the...

Looking Ahead to a New Year With ME/CFS by Jody Smith Hey, it's the beginning of a new year. And 2020 has a nice fresh ring to it. This time of year are you thinking about the future? I'm not talking about New Year Resolutions. I ditched those years ago. Me, I have a hard time looking to...

Living With ME/CFS in the Holiday Season: Year After Year by Jody Smith This year marks my twenty-eighth holiday season fractured by ME/CFS. Some years have been better, some worse. All of them have been thrown off kilter in one form or another for me and my family. My first Christmas...

On the Absence of Light and ME/CFS by Jody Smith On my side of the world, change is brewing. Here in North America, the cold and dark brooding of winter looms and glowers. In some areas it has already hit, hard. Temperatures dropping, days shortening ... for someone like me who lives with...

Invisible Disabilities Week Is Oct. 13 - 19, 2019 by Jody Smith The ME/CFS community is all too familiar with the realities of invisible disabilities. As a matter of fact we are rife with them. For this reason, we're happy to make some noise for Invisible Disabilities Week. If you have an...

Never Enough Hours in a Day With ME/CFS by Jody Smith There just aren't enough hours in the day for the person with ME/CFS. At least, it's been like this for me. It's not that I'm so terribly busy. Indeed, I am not. Not like I used to be busy, before illness. The complicating factor and...

Do You Have to Travel Far for ME/CFS Medical Visits? by Jody Smith One of the things that can strike fear into the heart of a person with ME/CFS is the prospect of going to the doctor. Worse yet is the ordeal of having to travel a long distance for such an appointment. An hour or two traveling...

The Crash that Follows the Push of ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day by Jody Smith It's been about a month since the ME/CFS community pulled out all the stops for our May 12 International ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day. I think we have a great deal to be proud of, and encouraged by. With each passing...

May 12, 2019 Is International ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day by Jody Smith International ME/CFS and FM Awareness Day 2019 has grown from an idea conceived by Thomas Hennessy, Jr. back in 1992. He chose the date of May 12 because it was the birthday of army nurse and Red Cross founder Florence...

For anyone interested in the new Empress Masako of Japan, who reportedly suffers from ME, there was a New York Times article that entirely neglected her health problems: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/asia/japan-emperor-women.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage All it says...

Given the recent interest in exosomes, I thought I might share some research on extracellular vesicles that the media have, somewhat sensationally, dubbed “Stealth Spheres”: References: (Chen et al., 2015)...

Why Is it so Hard to Learn New Things With ME/CFS? by Jody Smith On good days, I mostly operate on cruise control, with the occasional moment of brilliance and quite a bit of vegetative regeneration. I can handle most things especially if they are routine and familiar. Bring in something new...

Why Is Music So Hard for People With ME/CFS? by Jody Smith Oh, how I love music! This magic can lift our spirits and calm our weary minds. Maybe it can even help us heal. Goodness knows, we who live with ME/CFS need these things. We're probably not getting much of this elsewhere. So if music...