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What led you to suspect this?I thought the same but did not have the confirmation from a specialist.
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What led you to suspect this?I thought the same but did not have the confirmation from a specialist.
Sleeping with prostitutes is just one example of "Risky sexual behavior". But there are also others, such as having unprotected sex with multiple partners, which also can be true for women.
But that wouldn't explain why only some children in a family get it (for instance only first-born), why their parents don't have it....
Sorry, I did not intend to offense anyone. It was just a hypothesis that I made based on some similarities between HIV symptoms and CFS symptoms and also the theory saying that a retrovirus is involved in CFS. But HIV itself is not transmitted only sexually, there are other possibilities such contact with blood, drug needles, etc etc. On the other hand, the Chinese non-HIV AIDS that was discussed on the forum previously, that is mainly sexually transmitted and it is no HIV! And it has some common points with CFS! So, the things are quite complex and mixed, as I said, under this 'CFS' umbrella there are people with different diseases, but all have something in common - they do not have any diagnostic - so, for a superficial external observer - they are "hypochondriacs".So for me, like @Gingergrrl, there was no sexual promiscuity. I was a child, raised in a religious home... I find these assertions that it could be a sexually transmissible disease quite distressing!
Sorry, I did not intend to offense anyone.
I´m curious as to why people say they had a viral onset - how do you know it wasn´t bacterial? Or even fungal?
My onset was extreme weakness; it felt as if my limbs were paralyzed. The doctors at the hospital were surprised when the mono test came back negative (I was age 15). The only unusual thing they found was heart arrhythmia.I´m curious as to why people say they had a viral onset - how do you know it wasn´t bacterial? Or even fungal?
Because that's how I was diagnosed after my ME struck and I ended up in the hospital. They said it was viral syndrome. Little to no fever, lymphocytopenia, empirically rx'd Z-pak had no effect, etc.I´m curious as to why people say they had a viral onset - how do you know it wasn´t bacterial? Or even fungal?
Well it was afterwards followed up with negative blood and urine culture, negative lyme test, and negative for all the usual suspects (c. pneumoniae, mycoplasma, etc.) and positive for an enterovirus infection so their dx turned out to be spot on.I´m pretty sure that´s not enough to rule a bacterial infection out.
My guess is that most people here did not receive much of a workup beyond a monospot test and a CBC if they had acute sudden onset. My dx of viral syndrome was purely clinical, all the more in depth testing came in the weeks and months after.Sure. Again, I´m not talking about people who have had a positive diagnosis, I´m talking about those with a negative one.
I don't think so. They throw antibiotics at everybody, because it might be bacterial, or it might become bacterial. I don't think any of them do proper diagnostics during the acute state of an infectious illness. The only exception to that in my experience was the Physician's Assistant who diagnosed me with shingles 3 years ago.There are some tests that apparently can distinguish between viral and bacterial infections, but they are not in frequently used in the UK, perhaps the US is more modern in this regard.