Rufous McKinney
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crashes and relapses
So for me: relapse suggests something came back that was previously gone or had disappeared. I don't seem to think in terms of relapse because: gone just about never happens.
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crashes and relapses
...@Sundancer's compelling preference of PENE over PEM ( in case you missed that thread, Sundancers wrote, 'PENE is another way to say PEM, means Post Exertional Neuro-immune Exhaustion. I prefer the term over PEM (Post Exertional Malaise) because it grasps better what happens to the body.'), and now such core experiences/symptoms as crashes are spoken of by us all with different meanings.
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Post Exertional Neuro-Immune Exhaustion
I like that much better also. I like the neuro-immune exhaustion part.
There is an ongoing exhaustion independent of any form of exertion. Sigh.
work on smiling
Yeah. Despite all this work here on: fixing symptoms, and I've improved any number of them thru intense diligence and MASSIVE: exertion limitation in all forms.......No lunch with anybody, no walk around the block. No drive out to the countryside. Watch the dust grow. Don't clean the bathroom.there is an underlying, unresolved, serious health dilemma.
Despite ALL THAT: the brain inflammation is still so intense STILL. It used to periodically lift, but gee whiz LIFT, already.