It is very tricky to find an FMT donor and best bet will be for people to use someone they know and trust. This is not easy for many with CFS as many will typically have a limited social circle due to their chronic health and or may not have suitable healthy family members. Ideally the younger and athletic the donor the more healthy and diverse their gut biome will be. Many wiped out CFS patients are just not going to have that network of ideal contacts. Asking someone who has never heard of FMT and is squeamish over poop or is young and have immature attitude to FMT risks damaging your relationship with them and how they react to you going forward. The people who appreciate it the concept/motivation the more are often people with health issues and so not ideal candidates.yes, I think because covid-19 made people allot more mindful about their health, maybe in few years FMT will become allot more researched and some reasonable priced solution will be available locally.
Knowing the medical industry if they can patent an FMT pill they will or limit it to registered clinics doing it at $600 a visit they will. As someone mentioned above healthy active people are busy living life and have no concept of the misery of living with chronic poor health and the chance to make $60 or whatever on the side for their donation is not worth the hassle for them. As for clinics I don't think they have it much easier finding suitable donors either and I don't think they will hold out for ideal super donor candidate but rather take on those who are willing who pass the minimum infectious diseases tests. The clinic will still make its money whether its a success or not just as long as they don't make anyone worse. For c.diff its a great success but for CFS patients with gut issues its hit and miss. I am currently doing FMT with this donor and have had health improvement (steady increase with each one) but too early to post a full report or know I wont relapse.
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