Allergic To My Tumble Dryer!

Hi, Having M.E sometimes turns me into a super sleuth. Just call me Miss Marple! Trying to work out exactly what has caused a symptoms flare can often be a fruitless task, purely because of the complex nature of our illness but sometimes the cause of discomfort can be nailed down and prevented. Many M.E …

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Fidgeting With Hyper-Mobility Syndrome

Hi, I’m off to Amsterdam with Hattie the Otter and family later today and I have told Sally to get some work done while I am away. She wants to tell you all about how her Hypermobility Syndrome symptom (HMS) of fidgeting (not really a symptom but you’ll see what we mean in a bit) …

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Brain Inflammation

Hi, Foggy is still winging his way to Melbourne to see the Emerge Australia gang (9 days and counting….eek). I’m making the most of the peace and quiet and, in slow time, getting ready for our M.E Awareness Week events next week (full info on mefoggydog.org). The week so far has been very busy and …

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Eye Problems With M.E./C.F.S. – New Symptom!

Hello, I wrote this blog in 2016 (was it really that long ago?!) and I seem to be in exactly the same situation. I am recovering from another broken foot/toe and my eyes are playing up AGAIN. My double vision started again 3 months ago, it’s sporadic and so I haven’t really thought much about it but …

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Clumsiness and Broken Bones!

Hi, Well, it has certainly been an eventful 36 hours! I would like to apologise to my parents for wrecking their Sunday afternoon. We were all cosied up in our living room, all set for an afternoon of Christmas movies. I was having a payback day so was in the mood to be a sloth …

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Sore Throat? Is That What This is Called?

Hi, Since starting Foggy back in 2014, I have complained about having ‘M.E sore throats’.  They kinda go along with the notion that M.E feels like having flu every single day as its baseline. Without waffling on about biology, it’s to do with having glands in that part of our body that flare up when …

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Sleep Issues and M.E.

Hello! Sally is being weird this week. Her sleep pattern is all over the place. Over the past week, her numbers of hours of sleep at night has gone: 8, 3, 6. 10, 3, 8, to 5 hrs tonight. Crackers! I have told her to write a blog about it…here it is….. Ugh (translated that …

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Noise Sensitivity

Morning! Foggy is in Las Vegas and Patch is currently in his favourite place surveying his empire (the garden). I’m going to take this opportunity to write a blog about something that happened over the weekend. My Mum and I had decided to spend a quality afternoon together with a lunch at a nice restaurant …

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Brain Fog

Morning! So, ME Foggy Dog got its name because of the M.E./C.F.S. symptom brain fog. That feeling of having to get thoughts through a cotton wool brain before being able to do anything with them. Just writing this blog is proving to be an effort today. Apologies if it is just waffle! Some days, I …

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