10 hours ago by rachelcreative

I’ve been taking 20mg of amitriptyline nightly for pain relief since June 2007. In fact my post about it is one of the most visited on my blog so if you’ve landed here looking for info on amitriptyline as pain relief that post is the place to read more. Since I’ve been noticing pain creeping back in ...

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2 days ago by rachelcreative

Wouldn’t it be lovely, I thought, to go to a bonfire this week and see a fireworks display? (Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes and all that). Then I remembered 4 or 5 days have passed when I haven’t felt up to having an assisted bath. How am I going to be up to going out, in the [...]

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3 days ago by rachelcreative

Can that title be true? Can brain fog ever be a blessing? Thanks to a huge effort on Growler’s part my application to renew my Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is finally completed and being posted today. A few weeks past my award ended but it’s finally finished. Brain fog, cognitive, memory, seque ...

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7 days ago by tournesol11

Ferruccio Furlanetto as King Philip Isn’t it funny how simple things can make you change your opinion? This time the avalanche of thoughts started out by me reading reviews and blog posts about the recent premiere of Verdi’s Don Carlos at the ROH. The first time I saw this opera as a teenager in 198 ...

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11 days ago by aletheamarinanova

“It would appear that President Obama has not been apprised of the real facts of the situation, and has declared the swine flu a national public health emergency. … The intention of this report is to show you with the government’s own statistics that there appears to be MASSIVE amounts of misinforma ...

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11 days ago by Never That Easy

I turned 30 earlier this year, and, in the months leading up to that day, I was getting a whole lot of "Is turning thirty going to bother you?" "Do you think you're going to freak out?" "Does being 30 make you feel OLD?" type questions. I didn't think 30 was anything to freak out over, and told peop ...

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12 days ago by Fincha

The National Cancer Institute has responded to the recent news of the XMRV and ME/CFS link, thanks to a request by the CFIDS Association. Original post: The National Cancer Institute's Interim Guidelines for XMRV …

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14 days ago by aletheamarinanova

According to FOX News: “President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk. The Centers for Disease Control recommend that children ages 6 months through 18 ...

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15 days ago by amandaw

(Originally posted July 2009 at Feministe, three rivers fog.) We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is ...

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16 days ago by aletheamarinanova

One of my readers, Lacee, has questioned my memories of incest and rape. I have chosen to answer her in an entire post because many people have outdated and misinformation about Dissociative Amnesia (Repressed Memories). In brief, Dissociative Amnesia is a valid mental disorder that is listed in the ...

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