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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.
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If there was proof, we'd all be well. What is true is that there are multiple subsets of patients with different triggers and drivers of this disease.I agree with most of this. But there isn't any proof that viral re-activations cause ME/CFS, let alone cause ME/CFS to be contagious.
There are so many studies that show healthy controls with EBV, HHV-6, etc. re-activations and yet they have no symptoms.This has been shown with both high antibodies and PCR testing.
It seems like what is scientific fact, is that many healthy people have EBV and other viral re-activations for certain, but no symptoms. There have been dozens of studies showing this.
IMO, if ME/CFS was caused by viruses that are contagious, than the number of people "catching" ME/CFS from those of us that have it would be much higher.
I posted this question to "stuff that works", be interesting to see what response it gets. http://url8256.stuffthatworks.healt...uHUVP-2BeDbWdqu8z8zqz-2B33US8K2eSxjMYJ3yac-3D
Eye color? That wasn't my question, it was do you live with another person with cfs, currently 10% of 75 votes. Still a tiny sample,Well, Jjnz....I have to say the question about the eye color seems to have thrown almost everyone. I didn't go beyond that one. If skin tone is taken into question, one has to wonder if it's when a person is tanned say from the beach or skiing, or what their normal skin tone is. Surveys are very hard things to get answers to. Good luck and thanks for trying. Yours, Lenora.