Journal of IiME Volume 3 Issue 1 www.investinme.org SEVERE ME – A NORWEGIAN EXPERIENCE All three siblings have since June last year been undergoing treatement under the guidance of Professor Kenny De Meirleir. He came along after the extra blood tests that led to treatment had been done. His findings fit in with those performed earlier. It is fantastic to experience improvement and great to see two of our children come back to life. We hope that we shall experience Bjørnar coming out into daylight in a short while. Life is exciting. To be continued next year. Harald and Kjersti Krisner, parents ( May 2009) ME STORY The following day the psychologist came to give me the results, his words were these: "If you are to be believed, and your answers truthful, then you have the mental age of a senile 71 year old, and I should section you immediately! Now if you would truthfully like to tell me what personal experience led to your M.E. then I might be able to help you! What devastating event led to this mental problem, what made you so depressed?" I was appalled at this approach to my illness!! I told him in no uncertain terms that there had been no devastating event, that I had not been depressed, that actually my life for the previous couple of years had been remarkably uneventful but extremely happy. He continued to insinuate that something must have happened and that I was obviously depressed - so I pointed out to him that the only event had been me becoming ill and that any depression I had was a result of that! He then told me he would recommend that I be placed in another hospital to have further psychological review because I was obviously not trying and was actually deliberately acting ill to gain attention! - Debbie Katrine (above) – a photograph taken on her 30th birthday in May 2009. ME STORY In 2004 I caught a kind of flu with an infection of the gut and I never recovered. I needed 3 years for a diagnosis. It was a infernal trip into the jungle of the German health care system. At the onset there was a kind of outbreak in my workplace. The whole staff had been affected by ME-symptoms. In 2007 Prof. Dr. de Meirleir in Belgium attested me: This patient suffers from ME/CFS (WHO 93.3). - Roland Invest in ME (Charity Nr. 1114035) Page 34/76
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