Mary
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resting cause of a ME crash doesn't at all help raise a baseline.. it needs to be additional resting. Hence why I'd wondered if having an addition problem forcing one to rest when not part of the ME helped esp when combined with taking other things on top.
nods.. I didn't mean to sound as if it didn't, Im sure whatever you do and feel like has helped. Thanks. Your post has been interesting to read about the BCAAs and glutamine as they are things I haven't as yet trialed. I think I may of had a rare double copy of something which affects leucine on my DNA tests (I know I had some double mutations of AA stuff).
I see what you're saying about more resting, in addition to that which was required to recover from PEM. However, I did TONS of additional resting when I would get sick after crashing - I'd rest and recover from the crash and still be sick, and then have to rest several more days because of being sick, and none of that extra resting increased my energy or activity threshold. Being sick just made it that much more likely that I would crash if I tried to do something so I had to be extra careful when I was sick.
So now I've been fighting a bug for some 5 weeks and yet not crashing, and overall feeling better and having more stamina - so even though I've had to do additional resting because of the sinus infection (which is almost gone now), I don't think it's the cause of my increased energy and stamina. The additional resting I had to do before when I would get sick never increased my stamina or energy or lessened PEM.