This is my first blog for 2016. Yes I know we are already into February!
Where has the last month gone?
I want to start this year with questions.
When I first became ill I had many questions. For a start I did not know what was wrong with me and asked my doctor lots of questions but had no answers. Diagnosis took a long time but when it came I had even more questions!! The answers, however, were very limited. I had to look for the answers myself.
At the time of my diagnosis I did not have the internet or any other help or support. I searched the answers to my questions in all the books I could find in the library and in my local bookshop.
Now I have access to the internet, many web sites and support groups.
I have answers to some of my questions but not all.
Questions still remain.
No doubt everyone who is newly diagnosed will ask the same questions as me
Will I die? What
is M.E.?
Is
this it? What
is to blame?
Please
don`t lie It`s new to
me
Just
fix it! Don`t
feel the same
Why me? Am I dreaming?
Why now? This can`t be real
M.E.? QUESTIONS I`m still breathing?
But how? Yet dead I feel
How long will
it last?
Will
I recover?
I
hope it ends fast
Or
my life`s over
How
can you help me?
What
is the treatment?
GET
and CBT
Is
all you present
What
else can you tell me?
I
need to learn much more
Of
this illness M.E.
And
what I have in store!
?
So where to start when newly diagnosed?
Some of the answers you can find here in advice for people newly diagnosed with M.E. or CFS.
After fourteen years I don't know how or why I became ill.
I still remain ill but I have not died. Although sometimes I feel like I'm dead!
I have found ways to live with this illness but I have not been cured.
I have tried CBT and GET and know that they do not help.
I know a lot more about M.E. and try to help others.
I know many have been ill longer than me and it can be a lifelong chronic illness.
Life is not the same but it goes on all the same. My life is not over yet.
I still have questions and I'm learning all the time.
I hope this blog of mine helps others, especially those who have been recently diagnosed and feel overwhelmed.
I hope that one day mine and your questions are all answered.
Until then I will keep searching.
A bientot
From the French Femme
xxx
Some of the answers you can find here in advice for people newly diagnosed with M.E. or CFS.
After fourteen years I don't know how or why I became ill.
I still remain ill but I have not died. Although sometimes I feel like I'm dead!
I have found ways to live with this illness but I have not been cured.
I have tried CBT and GET and know that they do not help.
I know a lot more about M.E. and try to help others.
I know many have been ill longer than me and it can be a lifelong chronic illness.
Life is not the same but it goes on all the same. My life is not over yet.
I still have questions and I'm learning all the time.
I hope this blog of mine helps others, especially those who have been recently diagnosed and feel overwhelmed.
I hope that one day mine and your questions are all answered.
Until then I will keep searching.
A bientot
From the French Femme
xxx
