ME - Not a Modern Folly
My thoughts of the day. Many people believe ME/CFS to be a modern illness born from resistance to antibiotics/superbugs and other such like. It is fascinating when you study the history and trace back ideas and evidence of the poor poor people suffering from the disease before it was recognised. I feel antibiotics didn’t invent the disease but helped make it less fatal. ME makes your immune system very weak so you catch a lot of bugs. If I dont have a flu jab I can catch flu 5 times a year and I have had chicken pox 3 times. So. Without modern medicine I am positive one of those would have killed me. ME is not a modern disease. Modern medicine has just made it less fatal. Last year I almost died from a diabetic coma caused by… ME. The people who weren’t put in asylums or branded ‘sickly’ or, if lucky, probably died from the other problems ME causes. There are accounts of people dying from ‘failing’ and other ailments and many feel that Emily Dickinson may have suffered from it. I would love to one day study this in more depth - I’m sure I’ll get there. Please can we challenge this myth of it being a modern folly.
ME can cause death. Many are too paralysed to feed themselves, that’s if they’re not killed by the other more indirect and weirder by products like blood sugar crashes (without being diabetic), blood pressure/volume problems and many, many more.
Girlunderduvet
ME - Not a Modern Folly
My thoughts of the day. Many people believe ME/CFS to be a modern illness born from resistance to antibiotics/superbugs and other such like. It is fascinating when you study the history and trace back ideas and evidence of the poor poor people suffering from the disease before it was recognised. I feel antibiotics didn’t invent the disease but helped make it less fatal. ME makes your immune system very weak so you catch a lot of bugs. If I dont have a flu jab I can catch flu 5 times a year and I have had chicken pox 3 times. So. Without modern medicine I am positive one of those would have killed me. ME is not a modern disease. Modern medicine has just made it less fatal. Last year I almost died from a diabetic coma caused by… ME. The people who weren’t put in asylums or branded ‘sickly’ or, if lucky, probably died from the other problems ME causes. There are accounts of people dying from ‘failing’ and other ailments and many feel that Emily Dickinson may have suffered from it. I would love to one day study this in more depth - I’m sure I’ll get there. Please can we challenge this myth of it being a modern folly.
ME can cause death. Many are too paralysed to feed themselves, that’s if they’re not killed by the other more indirect and weirder by products like blood sugar crashes (without being diabetic), blood pressure/volume problems and many, many more.
Girlunderduvet
Posted 1 year ago
