I want to tell you something wonderful that happened during Lockdowns. In March 2021 I was going through a hard time. I sat on my yoga mat and cried my eyes out. Only after I noted I was sat by the window as the afternoon fell with the light on. I thought 1/n
I sometimes wonder if it was a pure coincidence that he wrote HI the day after I cried my eyes out, or if he had seen it and had found a way of reaching out, and was gracious about it. It doesn’t matter. There is a little star looking out for me ⭐️
We are never alone. ❤️ end/
At some point I asked why he put the Hi on the window, and apparently someone down the street had done the same (I had seen it) so he was curious to try. Every time I feel alone I remember this, we all have a little star out there looking out for us. 💫
Mark. That was his name. A total stranger that lived across the street and who brought me hope and smiles with just one word “hi” when I most needed it
We lived across each other so we just walked down at the agreed time. He was a lovely 20-something who had just moved into the area, we walked along the park and the conversation flowed. We had a delightful Sunday morning hanging out.
They asked what I did and we started a post-it window conversation. I must say I was impressed by their post-it sticking skills, mine kept falling and it was a whole project to make the words fit the space, as well as writing backwards!
I said that I do research and managed a typo asking back what they do - turns out standing on a chair sticking post-its on the window is not as easy as it sounds, albeit fun!
They work in a special education needs school, and it was time we found out each other’s names! You gotta save words by this method of communication, so apologies if the directness doesn’t sound very British
So far on MCAS treatment:
- less fatigue
- less migraines!
- wake up feeling less like death
- GOOD sleep every night
- drove for the 1st time in 6 months!! Read fiction and an easy paper!!!
I am in shock.
#TreatLongCovid
#mecfs
@remissionbiome
#LongCovid
So… I decided to try Online Dating With Long Covid While You’re Housebound because who cares and whateva, and the first person I match with and have an interesting conversation with also has…
#LongCovid
🤦♀️😂😂😂 how is this even possible, this is hilarious
I highly recommend to watch
@chydorina
excellent and easy to follow videos on MCAS. I was advised to start with the basics, so this is the protocol I am currently following, points A to E. I have already been on a low histamine diet for 8 months now with the occasional H1.
Today I am just sick of it all. It’s relentless, there’s no day off. I do understand why others have committed suicide. My respect to them.
Tomorrow is a fresh new day.
#LongCovid
#mecfs
@chydorina
I started with an H1, then H2 (famotidine) 10mg twice a day, then up to 20mg twice a day. I then introduced querticin, vit C and Vit D at a couple days intervals. Note this seems to be working for me, but you might need a different approach! Read widely and speak with your GP!
I am utterly impressed with the support, care and commitment I have been receiving from the fantastic
@remissionbiome
team, as one of the
#Renegade50
. I feel so lucky to be part of this community. Thank you all and to my fellow
#Renegades
!
#LC
#mecfs
@agy_lena
I have a family member who is a GP, and when I explained the spoons thingy and why I couldn’t meet her for coffee she said my disease was very philosophical 🙄
This week in
@remissionbiome
:
- sent Biomesight
- fought with customs
- lost said fight & sold a kidney to pay my dues
- got Prodrome Glia
- saw doctor and did blood tests!
- started treating MCAS
- got a rec for a doctor for reactivated CMV
…. nap time.
#LongCovid
#mecfs
So… I decided to try Online Dating With Long Covid While You’re Housebound because who cares and whateva, and the first person I match with and have an interesting conversation with also has…
#LongCovid
🤦♀️😂😂😂 how is this even possible, this is hilarious
@remissionbiome
is learning, ordering, asking questions, chasing packages, fighting with customs, meeting others in the same boat, doc visits, bloods and poo tests, and I gotta say I am loving every minute of it and I haven’t even officially started
#LongCovid
#PwME
#mecfs
#PwLC
This week in
@remissionbiome
:
- translation, matchmaking, and lab shopping… all labs done!
- email fights with Mr D. from UPS (he wanted me to declare a non-existent invoice to customs 🤨)
- all antibiotics prescribed by my very patient Doc 😁
#Renegade50
#LongCovid
#MECFS
#liefdevoorc
éline
Today I am thinking of Celine, a life cut short not only by ME, but specially by the medical establishment that gaslighted patients for decades and did nothing to further treatments and improve quality of life.
#MECFS
#CureMECFS
#WeNeedACureNow
Work makes us healthier, wealthier and happier.
We don’t think anyone’s potential should be written off because of ill health.
Our new WorkWell service is designed to provide the support that people need to stay in work, or return as soon as possible.
@DrMark_Faghy
This is one of the most poorly written abstracts I have ever seen, not to mention the utter crap and nonsense it says. Who is the editor that let this through? Wow.
@chydorina
@remissionbiome
And thanks to you! ❤️ Thank you for your session on MCAS for the
#Renegade50
, I was taken aback when you talked about how similar
#mecfs
and
#mcas
symptoms were. I saw my Doc 2 days later and got on the case!
@ClareGerada
The only reason a patient would do that is if their GP hadn’t listened to them and taken appropriate steps, then they go look elsewhere. Have you considered that GP failings are precisely why people look for answers elsewhere?
Today in
#LongCovid
land, I got confirmation my job is safe for another year. So hurry up world, WE NEED TREATMENTS NOW!
Scientists, I beg you, please get us out of this sh*te hole in 12 months! 😁😁😁 sharpen your pencils, go get them
This week in
@remissionbiome
:
- rest and digest
- increased
@nurosym
use
- continued with vagal prep, mcas treatment & tracking
- retested CMV, great news, numbers looking good! No idea how that happened, was it the Chinese medicine herbs?!
#mecfs
#LongCovid
@ConfedMatthew
Me and sister found a wallet with €200 cash and a school card. We phoned the school, who contacted the guardian, who called to arrange delivery. It was her grandmother, relieved: the kid had just been paid for a summer gig and that money was for her school books 🥹
365 days of
#LongCovid
, made bearable by Insight Timer. In gratitude to all the teachers that kept me afloat, here are my favourite tracks for
#rest
,
#breathing
and the vagus nerve:
@chydorina
I think the additional updates are due to starting
@remissionbiome
prep! I have noticed less fatigue, less up and downs in symptoms and better sleep the last week, fingers crossed it keeps up and only gets better! Thank you for asking ✨❤️
#Renegade50
I followed
#LongCovid
Twitter advice, and got a robe and a head turban drier thingy, I love it! Off the shower into the robe, no energy spent drying, and cosy!
Thank you Danny, the only thing I disagree with is your vision of Long Covid Clinics in the UK: in my personal experience they are useless (I got a physiotherapist who taught me a breathing exercise, and that was it). I am housebound. Not good enough.
@chrischirp
@guardian
There’s something fundamentally wrong with the NHS and it’s much larger than that - it’s the APPROACH. Other European countries (such as Portugal and Spain) have a PREVENTIVE approach to health (more screening, more immediate tests quicker) which saves money in the long term 1/2
These news made my day!
@remissionbiome
are making history! Thank you profoundly to the generous donors, I look forward to a healthier future for so many people. Gratitude
I have almost all products for the
@remissionbiome
prep phase and can’t wait to get started, but currently tweaking meds to find the right MCAS combo. Feel like a kid with a box of candy I can’t touch 😅
#LongCovid
#mecfs
#TreatLongCovid
I have just reviewed the 32 clinical trials for
#LongCovid
in the UK (in the NIHR website) and there isn't one I am excited about. What a waste of money and resources
#PwLC
#PwME
#TreatLongCovid
@CaroleBruce17
What pisses me off about all these studies is that none of them are actually working on a treatment/cure. Like dude, we are desperate, I don’t care who gets more affected, find us a bloody cure!
@emmiskyten
@remissionbiome
OMG WELCOME TO THE BEST CLUB EVER!!! So happy you joined us! Have you been put into a group yet? I hope you join our International group 😄😄😄😃😃😃 SO EXCITED to have you with us!
This. My GP says “oh you need to speak with your LC Clinic” and the physiotherapist (no joke) at the LC Clinic says “Oh you need to speak with your GP” - noone takes responsibility, it’s a joke.
I agree. LC Clinics have become a way for doctors/specialists to ignore
#LongCovid
and act that it isn’t their problem to understand.
Until doctors start realizing that they are not silos (which is a culturally shift desperately needed), the LC model won’t be effective.
Went to hospital for an appointment and got a wheelchair for the first time to get around the hospital. I can’t tell if my
#LongCovid
is worse, or if I KNOW BETTER to not walk those endless corridors to appease the PEM gods.
#PwLC
#PwME
#mecfs
Update. I DID NOT GET A MIGRAINE. I REPEAT, NO MIGRAINE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Now, does this mean my
#mcas
is better controlled? Is there more chocolate cake on the horizon? 🧐
Eating chocolate cake and watching Desperate Housewives. Living the
#LongCovid
dream
(I will probably pay for the chocolate cake with a migraine later thanks to
#MCAS
but after months of no chocolate I caved)
Okay peeps, it’s official, I have a boyfriend 😍 we only met in person twice and have been apart for 5 weeks now as I am in another country but hey ho 💙