TenuousGrip
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My ridiculously simplistic view of this has always been that it's a bit like shadow boxing -- it may well be there there's nobody on the other side of the battle but that you're fighting the battle as if there was an enemy nonetheless.
This is my interpretation of at least part of the autoimmunity theory: it's quite possible that there is no physical infection left in the body but the fight goes on as if there were.
For those of us with documented exposure (ie, antibodies) to something like EBV ... our immune systems may think that they're Hiroo Onoda and never stop fighting the war. Intuitively, this could easily be exhausting and lead to no end of other problems -- maybe including chronic and systemic inflammation.
It's just kind of my surmise -- how I view this piece of the disease. No idea if it's valid or not.
This is my interpretation of at least part of the autoimmunity theory: it's quite possible that there is no physical infection left in the body but the fight goes on as if there were.
For those of us with documented exposure (ie, antibodies) to something like EBV ... our immune systems may think that they're Hiroo Onoda and never stop fighting the war. Intuitively, this could easily be exhausting and lead to no end of other problems -- maybe including chronic and systemic inflammation.
It's just kind of my surmise -- how I view this piece of the disease. No idea if it's valid or not.