I've changed my blog address. My new URL is now http://www.rosalindamor-spaceofameguineapig.blogspot.com/
No doubt you'll be wondering why I've bothered to go through all the hassle of setting up a completely new blog just to change its name. There are two reasons;
1. I hoped that a blog with more commonly used words would get more hits
2. I wanted to change the CFS/PVFS/ME to just ME
After many years I've decided I like, on the whole, ME as the official name the best. The problem for a long time wasn't sure what the term Myalgic Encephalomyelitis means. Basically its a two words with five parts. My = muscle, Algic = pain, Encephalo = brain, Mye = spinal cord, Itis = inflammation. ME is the traditional name for the disease, being first used in 1956, whilst CFS wasn't used till sometime in the 70s/80s.
ME is a debilitating neurological disease initiated by a virus; an enterovirus. The 'ME' part of my condition was almost undoubtably caused by an enterovirus and was certainly pretty debilitating! I did suffer from neurological muscle pain as well. For a while I actually preferred the term PVFS because the condition is so often caused by a virus but now I've learnt that ME is also classed as a condition caused by a virus I've warmed to it.
I found out most of this from http://www.hfme.org/
In style and content though its exactly the same except with new polls, web links, pics and videos :). So, what are you waiting for, click and have a look!
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