HYPOGLYCAEMIC COMA and ME

A few years ago an article appeared in the BMJ and the conclusion was that 50% or so of doctors DID NOT believe ME existed.

The reasoning behind it was that all routine bloodtesting and so is normal in ME.

Now interestingly enough, no one seems to know about Dr Ramsay and his little but very informative book about ME.

If you can’t remember who he was, he was the Infectious Disease Consultant who worked in the Royal Free Hospital, when they had an outbreak of ME in 1955, and they had so many nurses and doctors (most of them were males in those days, so please take note of this Mr CBT!!!) that they had to close the hospital for months.

There are many very interesting and important things in his book.

Not only did he write a medical account of this outbreak, but he also dedicated his life to this horrible illness.

Now for the NON believers, just have a look at this.

“Some patients report the occurrence of fainting attacks relieved by a small meal or just eating a biscuit; these attacks are the result of hypoglycaemia and we are reminded of three young women in the outbreak in Finchley who were admitted to hospital in an unconscious state, the result of acute hypoglycaemia.”

And how do you treat this??

With an intravenous infusion, see picture. So no CBT, or other psychobabble.

What would happen if a healthy person would not eat?

Just remember the many people who went on hungerstrike for whatever reason.v They get thinner and thinner and can survive without food, if they just drink water only, so no calories or nutrition, for 50 to 60 days.

That is, because a healthy body has two hormones regulating the sugar level in our blood.

And if we don’t eat, we will start to “EAT” our own body up.

But a healthy person can try as hard as they like, they won’t go into a hypoglycaemic coma.

The only other person who can manage that, as well as an ME patient, is an insulin dependant diabetic.

Did Mr NICE read this very informative BOOK???

Well, there is nothing in his NICE report indicating they did.

Did the MAGIC CBT KINGDOM ever read it???

They might, but they have never shown any indication whatsoever that they learned anything from it.

Far from it.

There are lots and lots of other interesting things in this book, it only cost less than ten pounds so you would think that an Institute, that calls themselves something of Excellence, and that is writing a guideline about ME, that they at least have a look at this book.

It is only 61 pages of text, and it is just slightly larger than a pocketbook.

So for someone with a healthy brain, how long will that take to read??

But NOT INTERESTED were Mr NICE and his palls at the CBT KINGDOM and in the Government. Remember, they went into a hypoglycaemic coma.

Yes I know that the CBT KINGDOM calls ME patients hypochondriacs, hysterics, malingerers, people who want to claim benefits, and all sorts of other NICE-ness.

But we are talking dear Mr NICE and dear Colleagues, and even dear MAGIC CBT KINGDOM, about hypoglycaemic coma.

That is just a bit more than the patients you tend to see in your KINGDOM and say they have ME when all they have is fatigue or a mental health problem.

Those are obviously problems that needs dealing with, but they have nothing to do with ME.

And why does this happen over and over again at the CBT KINGDOM???

Because getting the diagnosis of ME right is impossible at the CBT KINGDOM.

Why???

Because it is NOT in their interests.

They want money, lots of it, and that the patients suffer as a consequence is not important at all.

NICE filosofy, but I’m afraid very true indeed.

And what did Dr Ramsay say about this????

“The basic essential in treatment is CORRECT diagnosis.”

And please remember, doctors who think we can test for everything and we know it all, what Dr Saunders, a GP from Australia wrote in the BMJ rapid responses about ME, and which he kindly mailed to ME to use his response in my BLOG:

“Last TIP: remember, even if you don't believe it exists, you might still get it yourself.

There are studies suggesting that teachers and doctors are more at risk.”