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I'm still hovering about.
Been diagnosed with possible Chronic Fatigue and I'm going to see a specialist team about this on Tuesday. I hope they give me some solution and no further speculations.
Naturally, I'm very tired most of the time and get muscle pains at random intervals. It's all fun and games, really...

I see my Zelda entry has been removed and no one's informed me of it. Again. What a surprise! It seems that my yahoo address on my space is invisible to site officials. Ho hum...

Drop me a line if you have time.
Elly

Regardless of what email address is on your page, if an email was sent it would have gone to whatever email address you registered with. You can email the eds and ask what happened to it, I'm sure I've got an address around here somewhere.

Best of luck with the specialists. I feel chronically fatigued, too, but I know what my solution is (get more than 5 hours of sleep a night).

also

Hello back to you Elly. So sorry to hear about the chronic fatigue.
I have two friends who suffer from it so I know what you are
experiencing. I hope you have a good and sympathetic GP
and I wish you better.

Thanks to you all for replying.
Bro, I don't have any spare energy for the eds right now, they can do whatever they like...

Mistadrong, my GP had to be pushed quite a bit to try and come up with ANY diagnosis, possible or not, so I'm afraid he's not quite sympathetic and understanding. I got into trouble at work over this, as it was alleged I fell asleep during work hours and it's all gone to disciplinary proceedings, so I went and told him about this and demanded some answers. After asking numerous questions and looking at all my test along the years, he's decided that this is what he thinks it is, and said to me - "you've been tired for 3 and a half years now..." "really?" I thought, "you think?"

Oh dear Elly, that sounds so depressingly familiar. Both my friends had the same experience. One doctor was totally opposed to the idea and fell into the category of "it's all in your mind". It's taken years for one friend to get a diagnosis but there doesn't seem to be anything the doctor can do for him. I suspect that the medical profession is rather baffled by it and it's easier to deny it than treat it. That might sound a bit cynical but I've met quite a few sufferers over the years when I've been at festivals. All told the same story. The sad thing is that people turn to alternative therapies and I have my doubts about a lot of them.

So what's the situation with work and the disciplinary? Something you could do without when you're poorly I know.

nothing's happening at the moment. I had an investigation 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything since.
What worries me is that I want to start teacher training in September 2008 and this will definitely be making life harder (the illness, not the disciplinary). I don't really care much what they do with me, to be honest, for the above reason, and seeing it's a FIRST OFFENCE I'll probably get a slap on the wrist.
From what I understand I will have to rebuild my stamina and fitness slowly, otherwise I'll never get out of the cycle of feeling tired-sleeping-losing stamina-feeling more tired-sleeping more-losing more stamina.... and so on. So I reckon they'll concoct a training and diet regime for me and see how it goes.

... They would be a Chronic Fatigue Team in the Liverpool Royal Hospital.

A slap on the wrist is the worst you can expect and if you have an union rep with you then I doubt you will even get that. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear nothing at all about a disciplinary.

Building stamina and fitness slowly sounds familiar. Listening to your body as well and not letting yourself get exhausted, something that's easy to do. My friend used to fight tiredness and ended up worse off for days. He's learnt now to rest when he feels the need. (not so easy with a baby I know)

Not easy with work either-
"11.20- time for my 10 minutes rest."
"Elly, I need you to type this memo for me urgently!"
"No, I can't. I'm resting"
"But... this is what you're paid to do!"
"I can't heeeeear you...."

It's been confirmed by the specialist by the way... Joy.