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Fresh hope for ME sufferers
by BECKY MORRIS, Daily Mail
Last year, Good Health told the moving story of devoted couple Harry and Nuala Bingham.
He was the Lord Chief Justice's 34-year-old son who gave up a brilliant career in the City to nurse his wife, who was struck down with a post-viral condition so mysterious that it did not even have a name.
Doctors had told Nuala, also 34, that her condition was chronic and there was nothing more they could do. She faced a life of almost complete immobility and permanent exhaustion.
Now, a year on, we revisit the couple to find that, remarkably, cutting-edge treatments tracked down on the internet are slowly restoring Nuala to health.
A year ago, Nuala Bingham was so weak and ill she had to be carried down the stairs by her husband.
She had only two hours of energy each day, and spent the rest of the time lying, exhausted and fragile, in a dark room. She was nursed constantly by her devoted husband Harry.
Nuala had been diagnosed with a rare and complex post-viral condition similar to ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis).
She had just 3 per cent of her former energy, could produce no viable hormones and was prey to all manner of secondary infections.
Five years ago, just a year after she married Harry, she had suffered encephalitis, a brain infection which left her with so little mental energy that, at times, she could not even talk.
Today, though pale and slender, she walks unaided into the drawing room of her quiet Oxford home.
'I have really started to perk up - it's been wonderful,' she says. 'After five years of illness, it is amazing to be able to get things done. I can even help Harry. It has transformed our lives.'
Her improvements are a result of three radical and, in this country at least, unheard-of treatments.
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