Dr Nina Muirhead recounts her experience of ME in Royal College of Physicians Article

[Countrygirl]

https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/do-you-really-believe-me

Do you really believe in ME?

With many in the medical profession misunderstanding ME, Dr Nina Muirhead recounts her own experience with the illness and how it reshaped her understanding of it.
Many doctors can find themselves in the position of the patient, and being informed of one’s own diagnosis can be a frightening and emotional experience. Eighteen months ago, after seeing thirteen different doctors and undergoing multiple tests and investigations, not only was I given a diagnosis of a condition that I didn’t know about or understand, it was an illness I didn’t believe in.

From my experience of ME/CFS there was no psychological component whatsoever, besides which exercise, if anything, was making me worse not better. I was not deconditioned or frightened to exercise. The symptoms were more consistent with a brain tumour or multiple sclerosis. The reality is ME/CFS is a serious, heritable, neurological condition and I was shocked to discover subsequently that my grandmother had died from it aged 42.

 

[Wolfcub]

It would not suit my Soul to be glad that a doctor had come down with ME/CFS.

But for the greater good, I have to be glad that happened, even though I wish Dr. Nina Muirhead a way out of this. and that her health will return.

 

[Hope4]

@Countrygirl Thanks for posting that. Gave me encouragement.