Member Stories

All I can really remember about what I think was the start of this illness, was getting chest pains. Apart from that I was extremely fit and well.

I worked in the day at a clothes retailer, and a couple of evenings a week I was a youth worker, trained to teach trampolining. I also played ...

At 5yrs old I contracted measles which was very serious and almost landed me in hospital. A little later my tonsils and adenoids were removed due to constant sore throats. At around 10yrs old I developed intermittent pain in my pelvis. It ...

My name is Cassey and I would like to share my experience with the battle against M.E.

5yrs ago I was a fit and healthy woman. At 7am every morning I would go to my ...

I've had M.E. half my life. Fairly typically I became ill after contracting glandular fever and ever since then things have never been the same. I was about eleven years old when I became ill and before that I had a pretty idyllic childhood. ...

Before I got sick I was a very active cross-country runner. I loved running and was relatively successful at it. At seventeen though, I got sick. I started ...

Hi, my names is Natascha-Rose.

I was constantly ill with viruses and in and out of my last years in school - meaning that I missed a lot of time and failed my GCSE'S. Slightly disappointed ...