Does anyone NOT have flu-like malaise?

Flu-like symptoms without the presence of fever has been my main symptom - luckily now it's mainly the day after exercise and lasts for 1-3 days depending on how vigorous I exerted and if I keep myself from pushing and am lucky I can avoid it completely. However it also still happens without working out and that is when I don't get decent restorative sleep for some time. I attribute this to heightened pro-inflammatory cytokine activity in reaction to a combo of pathogens and other stressors and in protection against mitochondrial depletion.

I never had flu symptoms for the first 10yrs but now the in last 10 years I experience viral symptoms 80% of the time. I used to experience worse symptoms after mild/moderate aerobic exercise but since taking l-acetyl-carnitine and lipoic acid I have improved. I stay within my boundaries though and never go over that fine line.

Even when someone has the flu, they would have some time where they felt okay. So I definitely have it. It varies from barely there to bad.

I have read people saying they did not have the flu feeling. Maybe it's not part of CFIDS, it's just so common that if you have CFIDS you will get a latent infection like EBV or one HHV to make you have the chronic flu feeling.