[thecoolest]

If you want to see the #1 nut on the internet then go to Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet.

This website makes me sick!

[Rolling Bones]

OK, yes I would.

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[Ratm]

I see three.

[Cubeoid]

Whoa Rolling Bones, you really went all out.

[turtle777]

All hail the hamster crapping out...

-t

[Jawbone54]

I can't believe I just wasted 10 minutes there. That's beyond sad. Too much free time for a barely functioning brain.

[ebuddy]

Chronic Fatique Sydrome? Who posts a blog detailing their ailments including irritable bowel syndrome?!?

Ever notice how people with chronic fatigue syndrome don't do anything? This is right up there with fibro-myalgia. (I have pain all the time, but I can't tell you where it is and no doctor can find out what it could be, but it's useful as hell for getting really good meds) My mother-in-law has chronic fatique syndrome. Apparently, sitting around eating bon-bons and watching Montel has really got her stressed out.

[Doofy]

OK, she's slightly barking and as a result probably wouldn't be in danger of any DoofyLovin'. But I wouldn't call her the #1 nut on the Internet.

Leave the poor girl alone.

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by ebuddy

Ever notice how people with chronic fatigue syndrome don't do anything? This is right up there with fibro-myalgia. (I have pain all the time, but I can't tell you where it is and no doctor can find out what it could be, but it's useful as hell for getting really good meds).

I suspect that CFS and fibromyalgia are a lot like ADHD: real conditions, but horribly overdiagnosed in this day and age. It's easy to see where the stereotypes of these conditions as "fake diseases" came from: I suspect that most cases are fake.

But real cases do exist, and real fibromyalgia doesn't act like your description. For one thing, someone with real fibromyalgia can tell you where the pain is: there's a set of 18 well-defined "trigger points". Few patients have pain in all of these points -my wife doesn't either- but by definition someone with real fibromyalgia has pain in at least 11 of them.

My mother-in-law has chronic fatique syndrome. Apparently, sitting around eating bon-bons and watching Montel has really got her stressed out.

CFS doesn't mean you're just "tired" all the time; it means you're completely exhausted, and I do mean completely. Someone with a real case of CFS isn't going to even be able to "sit around eating bonbons and watching Montel" every day, because that implies staying conscious. Then again, from the way you describe it, I'm not sure you actually know what she does most days. I suggest you find out.

[nredman]

i wonder if they can make a website for me - i love the design :/

[teknopimp]

Originally Posted by nredman

i wonder if they can make a website for me - i love the design :/

i love sites that only use Comic Sans.

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by Millennium

I suspect that CFS and fibromyalgia are a lot like ADHD: real conditions, but horribly overdiagnosed in this day and age. It's easy to see where the stereotypes of these conditions as "fake diseases" came from: I suspect that most cases are fake.

For the most part, I was just trying to be funny. It's not funny when someone replies and tells you their wife has one of the conditions I'm poking fun at. I apologize. It's right up there with crackin' on some dude's bald head only to find out he's on chemotherapy.

But real cases do exist, and real fibromyalgia doesn't act like your description. For one thing, someone with real fibromyalgia can tell you where the pain is: there's a set of 18 well-defined "trigger points". Few patients have pain in all of these points -my wife doesn't either- but by definition someone with real fibromyalgia has pain in at least 11 of them.

I certainly don't know your wife, but I know several others and they are perfectly able to conduct business or get out of bed when it suits them. My mother-in-law spends an awful lot of time spelunking through dime stores and antique shops. She only gets exhausted when her daughter wants to do something or when something is asked of her that she'd rather not entertain. Interestingly, my mother-in-law has fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (which I thought used to be called disorder), mercury poisoning, heart conditions, "tumors" that seem to appear and disappear contingent upon when more attention is needed, etc... I also find (from 3 of the 4 people I've known with fibro-myalgia) that there seems to be no shyness in detailing all of their ailments including irritable bowel syndrome which seems invariably brought up at the dinner table. In short, it seems as a fortunate (and admittedly ignorant, please understand) third party that what we have here is a little too much time on our hands in thinking about ourselves. For some, tired is tired and for others tired is paralysis, but not complete paralysis mind you.

CFS doesn't mean you're just "tired" all the time; it means you're completely exhausted, and I do mean completely. Someone with a real case of CFS isn't going to even be able to "sit around eating bonbons and watching Montel" every day, because that implies staying conscious. Then again, from the way you describe it, I'm not sure you actually know what she does most days. I suggest you find out.

I'm aware of what she does every day and I'm also aware that depression runs rampant throughout her family.

[ledzeppelin]

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