Natasha Jade

Hello  I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write another post but I’ve been so busy for once as my Dad turned 50 last week and my Mum and Dad had a joint birthday party which I have been helping to organise, also I decided it would be a good idea to make my Dad a scrapbook of his whole life (30 years of which I wasn’t even there) and I’m still not finished. Anyway, someone asked me about being bullied and how that means it has affected me with my M.E and Fibromyalgia. As I have said in previous blogs, there is no known cause for M.E or Fibromyalgia but one theory is that besides a virus, which I did have, is that it could be down to stress and anxiety which doctors and specialists believe is due to me being bullied throughout the whole of my school life. So, basically, I don’t remember a year since Year 1 – Year 13(last year of college) in which I wasn’t bullied. There were never the same people and always picked on something different every time, I’m starting to wonder if I

I decided I think I should explain exactly what I have been through with the doctors and hospitals including treatments. As I explained in my post 'The Past 3 Years...' this all started just over 3 years ago now. I started having flu like symptoms just after Christmas 2010 and after seeing the doctors every week I was finally tested about 5 weeks later for Glandular Fever, by this time the doctor said the virus would probably have left my system so my blood tests all came back fine. Unfortunately there was never a definite answer for this mystery illness that started these long, long years. After finally going back to college and completing my A Levels and having my 18th birthday in June 2011 I went back to the doctors after the cold, blocked nose and coughing symptoms had gone but left me still aching all over, mainly in my legs.  At the beginning of August 2011 I went to the doctors AGAIN and I was sent to the 'GUM' department of the Princess Royal Hospital to be