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    Mountain View Accommodations

    Sorry for late post but I stayed at Country Inn Motel on El Camino Real ... $184 a night google maps tells me today. If you are driving - between CFS and unfamiliar surroundings and Bay traffic its a lot of stress. The above place has ample easy parking right next to rooms, motel is right on...
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    My Experience With Dr. Kaufman at the Open Medicine Institute

    Greetings. Going to Dr. Kaufman this November and looking forward to it very much. Question: I understand Dr. Kaufman will often send blood draw to Focus Labs for the deep-viral tests: HHV-6, CMV, Epstein Barr ... What is the approximate cash price of the above labs, said to be the most...
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    Curious about connection between ME/CFS and Levaquin/FQ antibiotics?

    Greetings. I had acute onset CFS in 1992. Never had any allergy or reaction to a drug before. No chronic medical problems other than the CFS, except for chronic bronchitis after a cold - which morphed into a lung-only-expressed dust allergy mid-1980s - took the shots for that and the...