My theory is based on my returning to 100 percent normal after 8 months of CFS, with no specific treatments. Then relapsing due to returning to physical exercise thereafter. And now seeing a tiny bit of improvement, again with no CFS-specific treatments.
Let me see......
My daughter had mild ME for 5 years with no treatment and not an iota of improvement.... not consistent with your theory.
Then, for the next year she became more and more ill until she was very sick and unable to continue in college.... very much not consistent with your theory that she would recover over time without treatment.
At that point we got her under the care of some top ME/CFS specialists who treated her with conventional medicine based on the results of laboratory tests showing a number of abnormalities including immune dysfunction, multiple chronic infections, dysautonomia, and hypothyroid -- a pretty typical set of abnormalities in ME.
Then she began to recover and eventually returned to near-normal function. She is not cured. She still has to take medications, but she lives a relatively normal life for a young adult.
I had ME for 6 years without treatment. I declined for those 6 years from mild until I was severe and bedbound,... very much not consistent with your theory that I would improve over time without treatment.
At that point I, too, got under the care of top ME/CFS specialists who found multiple abnormalities and treated them with conventional medicine. I have improved from bedbound, unable to even read a book, to largely housebound, able to drive, tutor part-time, and do light housework -- a huge improvement. I'm not cured, either, but the life I live now is vastly better than the bedbound-staring-out-the-window non-life I had with no treatment.
Perhaps your theory based on the experience of one person who had continually improving "CFS" for a mere 8 months does not apply to people who have had the serious neuroimmune illness ME/CFS for years.
For other patients to know whether your theory based on your (n=1) study and resulting advice to "...if at all possible, friends, leave your bodies alone to heal" applies to their health situation, it is important to be able to compare your illness to that of other patients. What immune dysfunctions do you have? Which chronic infections are you battling? What kind of pain are you struggling with? In what way were the results of your exercise testing abnormal? How much cognitive dysfunction are you dealing with? Do you have dysautonomia? Do you have hypothyroid or other endocrine dysfunctions?
Perhaps you are confusing the symptom "chronic fatigue" which can be caused by many conditions some of which may resolve over time without treatment with the neuroimmune illness ME/CFS which rarely, if ever, resolves spontaneously.
Also, having read about three people, again spontaneous improvements with no radical treatments.
"Reading it somewhere" is not scientific evidence. I have read about people abducted by aliens, but I don't accept their claims as truth without some scientific evidence to back it up.
Do you know with any certainty that those people even had ME/CFS? Were those people diagnosed by knowledgeable ME/CFS doctors according to the CCC or ICC? What abnormal lab testing did they have? How did those lab results change over time?
Perhaps you could share your daughter's specific protocols for the benefit of others, maybe?
I
have written extensively here at PR about my (and my daughter's) treatment for the benefit of our fellow patients. If you search, you will find it.