Fibromyalgia

Unity

Season's Greetings to all:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, and gender neutral celebration of the Winter Solstice holiday, practised within the traditions of the religious or secular persuasion of your choice. May this celebration be practised with respect for the religious or secular traditions of others, even if they choose not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. Furthermore I wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated celebration of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to our society have helped make Britain great (this does not imply that Britain is necessarily greater than any other country). I do this without regard to your (or my) race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, gender, religious faith, choice of computer platform, sexual preference, or preferred font style.

(By accepting this greeting, you are accepting the following terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable, but without alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for him self or others and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first and any warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher).

I was sent this by my digital imaging tutor and thought it rather droll . Personally I find political correctness far too - well, correct:eek:.

Have a proper Crimbo! :xmastree::xmassign::snow_laug:snow_grin:santa2:

Luv,
Unity

bigzippy

Hi Scarletlady, welcome to the thread. :wave:
We are normally very active on here...but alas I think everyone must be otherwise engaged with Christmassy type stuff

Ta Unity and Raeh, and Merry Chrimbo everyone! :xmassmile

Magenta

scarletsladyintheparc wrote: »

Hello there, well as you can see I'm a complete Newbie to this site, so thought I would use my first post to introduce myself in this forum.

I am a sufferer of Underactive Thyroid, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and other associated illnesses. Hopefully I will meet you all in the new year when things have settled back down.
By the way, if anyone mentions Xmas, I go into hibernation mode.......LOL. It's the only way I can deal with it.

Wishing everyone a painfree, peaceful Xmas,
take care.....scarletsladyintheparc.

Hi there, welcome to the thread.
I have exactly the same illnesses as you plus plus plus!!!!!

Christmas is just another day for me too.
(my son died, some years ago now on December 13th) so it's nothing to me....

bigzippy

Sorry to hear that Magenta. That must be really tough.

My sister and her partner were in Thailand when the tsunami struck. We lost him, but - thank God - we got her back, if in a few pieces. So, Boxing Day is not easy...and the whole festive season is a bit overshadowed when I think about it.

I try to remember that he wouldn't've wanted us moping about feeling sorry for him/us...I know it's a cliche and sounds trite, but...y'know.

Magenta

suep wrote: »

If you go back a page or two I posted his website addy
sue

Sue do you think that you could post his details again please?
Trolling back through the pages of postings on our thread really gives me really awful migrane which always ends in a seven or eight hour stay for me in the bathroom.
Thanks.

bigzippy

Here you go Magenta:

suep wrote: »

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

Just wondering where Prof Davies is based? Just out of curiosity as I think Mum may have been to see him at some time.

Hi CWTA He's based at Guys i think, my friend saw him there. heres a link to his site.
http://www.fmsclinic.co.uk/

sue

Magenta

THANKS BIGZIPPY.:beer:

The Professor and his clinic are the first people I have ever heard of to officially recognise and treat, Fibro M.E/CFS!!!! Brilliant.

raeh

Hi everyone :wave:

bz and magenta im sorry xmas must be hard for you. I hope you both enjoyed some of it though xx

unity your post made me laugh :rotfl: the world really has gone mad with political correctness

hello to scarletslady, we usually are quite a chatty bunch in here and im sure 2009 wont be any different

i wonder if Auntie Axe is having a lovely time away? i hope shes taking the time to relax

well our house is full of new things, it wasnt until the kids had opened everything and piled them all up that i started to worry about where it will all go luckily now they are older its mostly console games and dvds, theres still an awful lot of other things though. We had a lovely family day and the kids were great, its nice now they are of an age not to argue over toys

im typing on my new laptop that lovely hubby bought me after us saying we werent buying for each other tut!! my old one was snapped on the hinges of the lid and i had to be careful opening it and if i moved to much it reset itself so its lovely to have this

I have spent today tidying and ironing and then i fell asleep most of the afternoon, i think all the last few days caught up with me :eek:

enjoy the rest of the xmas week everyone x

suep

bigzippy wrote: »

Here you go Magenta:

Thanks BZ,
Sorry Magenta I havnt been online since Wednesday so I didnt see your other post until now.

This Fibro clinic do take nhs patients but from what Ive heard theres about a years waiting list and then you only get to se him for about 5mins. My friend went private, a lady at her church paid for her to go, and with the meds he gave her she really went downhill and ended up bedridden for 2 months.
He has helped some people but you must remember that he cant cure you.
Good luck with whatever you decide
sue

cjdavey

Hi Guys & Girls,

I have stumbled across this forum tonight, I've been ill off and on for around two years, I was very ill for around 5 months in 2007, my problem started with my stomach, does this sound familiar to you? In fact when I was really ill I really thought I was dying, I was told IBS, ME, CFS and FM was mentioned, I saw private consultants but nobody really helped me, I lost 4 stone in about two months, my arms ached so much I could not hold the phone to my ear, my brain stopped working, brain fog, the doctor looked at me as if I was a time waster, I had so many symptoms it was embarrassing, my doctor would say nothing could possible give all these symptoms. I saw homeopaths, Chinese doctors & nutritionist, I had one test after another including CT scans, bloods, urines, etc...

I read lots of stuff on the internet, not a good idea when your feeling ill, lol. I came up with Candida amongst a whole list of other illnesses. I ask my private consultant she told me that this only effected people with compromised immune system like AIDS patients or people on chemotherapy, she really was not interested, but she did tell me to take a canesten oral tablet (fluconazole) from over the counter, I had taken lots of tablets and nothing had made any difference, at this point I had spent around £2000 on tablets, mainly vitamins and minerals. The thing is the tablet made a difference, it cleared my brain fog in around 5 minutes ad I felt the best I had felt for months, I could not believe it, problem was it only last a couple of hours, this convinced me I was on the right trail, I have continued to work on the Candida principles and I'm now back to work full time and have not been off sick for over 12 months.

Please feel free to email me.

Chris, 38, male, UK, Sussex