• Welcome to Phoenix Rising!

    Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.

    To become a member, simply click the Register button at the top right.

Search results

  1. C

    Study of Insect-borne Infections in ME patients planned

    The thing I came away with from the article was Knox looking into TBEV as the possible culprit to chronic Lyme/M.E.I looked it up on the dreaded CDC site and scarily it said there is as yet no treatment to this virus other than anti-inflammatories while it can cause permanent neurological damage...
  2. C

    Lyme disease subverts the immune system, prevents future protection

    What can be surmised from the UC Davis study is if it is humoral immunity that is lowered,the part of the immune system that makes antibodies,it makes the CDC antibody tests for Lyme even more pointless .Futhermore, despite pain we would show normal for all auto-immune tests and inflammatory...