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My Current Understanding of ME: Part 4 - Lactic Acid/PEM
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Ok, since I haven´t got very far with this series of blogs, I have decided to skip straight ahead to the juicy stuff. I had two additional reasons for this: 1.) the stuff in the fourth episode is what motivated me to start writing this series; and 2.) I was worried someone on the forum might...
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My Current Understanding of ME - Part 1: What The Hell Hit Me?
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So, I have only written one blog so far, and it was a little obscure (it was about Post-polio Syndrome), but hopefully this one will be a bit more relevant. I have been putting it off writing it, but it seems others have similar ideas/areas of interest to me, and I want to get the scoop first...
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Post-polio syndrome
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I'm not a doctor or a researcher, and I have no idea whether this has any connection to some ME patient's conditions. I know a Polio-like illness was suspected to be the cause initially, and that Dr Chia thinks other enteroviruses are to blame, but apart from that there doesn't seem to be much...

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