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    Since your ME/CFS onset, have you caught the Cold & or Flu more or less frequently?

    I was diagnosed with CFS in 1995, about 18 years ago, and I haven't had a 'normal' cold or flu since. When I know I've been exposed to whatever is going around I may or may not feel some minor symptoms for about a day and then nothing. I've often used this as a measure of my CFS severity - the...