With Macrophagic Myofasciitis, patients have a delayed onset of ME/CFS following vaccination.
I am glad you brought up macrophagic myofasciitis.
At this point we don't know if macrophagic myofasciitis is the same as ME/CFS, even though the symptoms are very similar (there are several diseases with very similar symptoms to ME/CFS, yet are not ME/CFS, so similarity symptoms does not guarantee it's the same disease). Unless of course in future it is shown that macrophagic myofasciitis has the same basic pathophysiology as ME/CFS.
One commonality is the involvement of muscles: in ME/CFS you often find a chronic non-cytolytic enterovirus infection in the muscle tissues, whereas macrophagic myofasciitis you have aluminum compounds found inside macrophages in the deltoid muscle.
I guess there could well be many people who developed macrophagic myofasciitis after vaccination, and were misdiagnosed with ME/CFS.
So if someone does think they have developed ME/CFS after vaccination, perhaps they might want to get tested for macrophagic myofasciitis via this deltoid muscle biopsy (the muscle usually used to inject vaccines, and where the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant may collect).
Although
this paper says the average time to onset of the first macrophagic myofasciitis symptoms is 7 months after vaccination; so I am not sure if the rapid onset type of ME/CFS-like symptoms after vaccination could be due to macrophagic myofasciitis.
I notice from your other posts,
@Max80, that you say you developed macrophagic myofasciitis 6 weeks after a hepatitis B vaccination, which was confirmed in France by a deltoid muscle biopsy (because the NHS were not interested in performing such a biopsy).
I just wondered: have you or anyone with macrophagic myofasciitis ever tried Professor Chris Exley's recommended treatment for aluminum detoxification, namely silica, from sources such as horsetail herb? There's some info in
this post.
It's possible that the silica could help remove the aluminum from the deltoid muscle, although it would probably require months or years of supplementing with horsetail for any benefits to appear. Malic acid is also an aluminum chelator.
I wonder if any doctor has considered injecting aluminum chelators into the deltoid muscle to help clear the aluminum?