It’s amazing to me that anyone has ever thought exercise was a valid treatment for ME, and i shall tell you why in one very small thread

i did some gardening yesterday & walked to the polling station today, & felt VERY smug that i was feeling ok.

Alas, hubris struck me down as I was sorting clothes an hour ago

I crashed very suddenly, and language went haywire.

to illustrate: i was trying to ask james where the socks were, but couldn’t form sentences or remember the word for socks, only that they had bows on them

so what happened was i slumped to the ground, legs gone from under me, demanding increasingly frustratedly of my increasingly confused partner:

bows. BOWS. bows? BOWS?!

as one finger pointed at the clothes pile.

in the end we both ended up laughing & i’m now horizontal on a sofa with language mostly returned to me, but seriously. This is not a ‘normal’ illness or a ‘normal’ response to exercise!

I was fine for a day/hours after the exertion, and then I was suddenly screaming BOWS at my poor bewildered boyfriend as he looked on in complete perplexity

Ain’t no mention of that in the PACE trial, eh?!