any medical students with chronic illness

How do you find walking around then 5 days a week full on to lectures etc?
Did you still have these issues when you started med school?

I rang my med school and the admin stuff were not very helpful. I have compulsory stuff right from the go! If I cant make it before hand due to HES appointment or just feeling terrible.. who do I email. Med school told me I had to wait till I start to find out which contacts to email about stuff like this.

It's not the admin staff you need to contact. Your uni should have a disability support centre?

I've known of one or two medical students with ME/CFS but none who completed their course. It's pretty much the most invasive chronic illness you can get, and takes a heavy toll on cognitive function/fatigue, which renders anything involving complexity/laborious study neigh on impossible unless you happen to be one of the lucky 5% or so who spontaneously recover

It took me 12 years just to do a fairly simple and low contact hours degree in Economics, after 3 failed attempts to make it through the 3 year course plus periods away from studies for R&R. Mind you, I didn't know half of what I do about the illness/my body back then so if I had my time again I expect I could just about crawl through it in 3-5 years

If you have a less intractable chronic health condition then I'd say it depends/try to stay optimistic but if you have ME/CFS, as diagnosed e.g. by contemporary criteria (SEID etc) then I wouldn't get your hopes up. Even if you pass out, life as a junior doctor will floor you unless the regime is extremely flexible to accommodate your illness and fluctuating functionality/energy

Hello, I'm not a medic, but I'm a chemistry student with several chronic conditions. I want to warn you that while the disability centre is helpful, my issue has been with the course lecturers and tutors. I was on a different course last year and one of the main reasons I transferred (same uni, different subject) was because of how useless the teachers were. I made them aware of my illnesses and while they didn't expel me for my lack of attendance or anything like that, they did not help. What I mean is that they wouldn't put any effort in to making sure I was sent the information that others received in class. I didn't expect them to send me an essay for each one hour lecture, but you'd think they'd at least make the lecture slides accessible. Then again, when I came here I had to explain to my new GP what some of my illnesses were as he'd never heard of them! Safe to say I soon went elsewhere.

However, this year has been different. As soon as I made them aware that I've been ill (without mentioning the chronic issues), while chemistry were supportive, they told me to make sure I got lecture notes from a classmate which is quite stupid in my opinion, simply because I obviously don't know anyone yet. However, I am doing some biomedical modules this year and they've actually sent me the lecture slideshows, given me some reading recommendations and the criteria for achieving a first on my written coursework.

Also, I don't know any medical students but a friend of mine has ME/CFS and is halfway through a full time bioscience course.

I'm here as I need to be anon

I'm starting medical school soon. on top of my chronic illnesses, I have some new stuff which is painful that I am going through. I have ongoing investigations which will be now changing to university town doctors.. which is quite stressful in itself.

I feel like I will be the only person in my year who is chronically ill. I feel like I wont get any support of the medical staff. I have seen threads in the past of medical students with CFS and Lupus.

any new or existing medical students in same boat?