I answered based on the symptoms I currently experience but there are symptoms that I no longer experience due to time (illness duration), strict pacing, and symptom management:
* Flu-like symptoms - I used to get flu-like symptoms for 1-3 hours every day or two. After roughly 3-4 years those symptoms disappeared. I haven't had a 'real' flu since 2004 and haven't had a cold since 2007.
* Muscle twitching - I used to get this in my thighs after going for a walk of at least a mile or so. Now that I'm housebound I can't walk enough to find out if I still have this symptom.
* Chest pain - I used to get this a lot, along with heart palpitations and skipped beats. It even got so bad for a few months that I sometimes had left arm numbness and jaw tightness which are signs of serious heart problems. A 24-hour Holter monitor didn't find any problems. These symptoms went away once I started taking supplements such as high quality methylB12 and methylfolate.
* General pain - I can get coat hanger pain if I push too much but staying within my energy envelope leaves me pain free most of the time. An exception to this is occasional discomfort or pain in the left side of my colon and under my left ribs.
* Digestive pain - I used to get a lot of stomach discomfort, especially after eating, but since I've been taking Betaine HCL with Pepsin I no longer have abdominal discomfort or pain.
* Fatigue after eating - eating very small, frequent meals avoids the blood pressure drop that leads to extreme fatigue and brain fog after eating.
* Headache and nausea (and worse balance) - this can occur if I push too much mentally or physically.
* Severe brain fog - I still have brain fog but used to get such severe brain fog that I could barely function. It turned out that I have blood sugar drops throughout the day (but not at night). Eating ten small meals during the day keeps my blood sugar stable. I also get up at 4am so that I can eat by 4:30am when my blood sugar first starts to drop.
Other symptoms that aren't listed on the poll:
* Low or fluctuating body temperature - I didn't even know I had this until I read about it, checked, and found that my body temperature fluctuates between 36.2 and 36.8 throughout the day.
* Heart rate that reduces with exertion - I've tested this by pacing back and forth a few times quickly, while wearing a pulse-oximeter, and found that my heart rate reduces with exercise. It's a symptom that I read about in the CCC or ICC. Because my PEM threshold is so low, I can't exercise much beyond pacing a few times in my house then resting while lying down for 80 minutes, so I can't test this with more strenous exercise.
