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Category: Health, Wellness, Fitness

Type: Public Membership
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Founded: Sep 14, 2006
Location:: Every speck of Australian soil,
- AU
Members: 63




Group Leader:
green things

This is a place for young Australians suffering from ME (and ME equivalent CFS) to connect with eachother, and to discuss issues that uniquely affect young people living with this disease in this country.

Feel free to discuss anything in relation to your experience with this illness, especially that relating to -
-dealing with your diagnosis and prognosis
-school/TAFE/university/other study and work
-family and friends
-management and day to day life
-symptoms
-activism and advocacy
-test results and pathology
-treatment and medications
-diet
-Disability Support Pension (DSP) and dealing with Centrelink
-And anything else you feel is relevant!

Know any other young Australian's on MySpace with ME? Send them an invite!



Some important documents and reading:
-The Canadian ME Clinical Case Definition and Guidelines: An Overview

-3 Part ME Ability and Severity Scale: Physical Ability, Cognitive Ability, Symptom Severity

-Testing for ME

-Some points from the ME Society of America

-ME Research and Articles

Young Australians With ME (and ICD- CFS) (63 Members)
Ange


Morbid_Princess122


sarah


Bec Amy♥


Ally


rachael


shinee



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diet 7
06/29/2009 10:08 AM
by: Ally
04/07/2009 8:09 AM
by: Ally
Very Important for All CFS Sufferers 0
06/29/2009 5:58 AM
by: Kingfan
06/29/2009 5:58 AM
by: Kingfan
The Venting Thread 43
06/01/2009 2:36 AM
by: Ally
01/13/2009 2:16 PM
by: danii california
Anyoe interested in being interviewed by a researcher on the treatmant of CFS patients by Centrelink, doctors, specialists etc? 0
04/20/2009 5:26 AM
by: Kingfan
04/20/2009 5:26 AM
by: Kingfan
This is Genuine and Worth Taking a Minute to Sign 0
04/16/2009 1:56 AM
by: Kingfan
04/16/2009 1:56 AM
by: Kingfan

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Kingfan 03/25/2009
07:33 PM
Online Talk by CFS Researcher Dr Anthony Komaroff
Ally 01/28/2009
03:00 AM
homesick
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10:16 PM
chronic fatigue