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How ill are M.E. Sufferers?
Like any other illness, M.E. affects everyone differently, and some are more affected than others. The most severely affected sufferers are completely bedridden, in constant pain and unable to attend to normal bodily functions. Others may be in wheelchairs most of the time, occasionally accumulating enough energy to leave their wheelchairs for only a short while.
Those who are quite mildly affected may still be working full time - and appear pretty normal - but may be having to rest every evening and weekend just to maintain their energy levels at work.
Even quite severely affected sufferers may look healthy - be assured, they're not. The same applies in other illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis.
M.E. is a very variable illness - it does tend to follow a course of "relapse and remit", and it may vary from week to week, day to day, or even hour to hour.
So don't be surprised if one week an M.E. sufferer is "up" and doing normal things, and the next they're in bed most of the
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