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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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  1. Annabel

    BLACK MOLD - anyone know about it?

    My illness began in a moldy house. In fact, both of my roomates were sick while we lived there as well. I am the only one who stayed sick in the 2-3 years since we left. The first couple of weeks out of the house I felt markedly better...well, after herxing like crazy for a few days. When we...
  2. Annabel

    Deborah Waroff interviews Dr. De Meirleir: ME/CFS Alert, Episode 44

    Oh estrogen...always causing problems. :p
  3. Annabel

    FROM MOOD DISORDERS TO MCS: A NEUROINFLAMMATORY MODEL

    I spent a fair amount of time this winter researching the common factors between all of the diagnoses I have ever received, it's a depressing whopper of a list, looking for common factors. Increased glutamate levels were a factor in many of them; including fibromyalgia, bipolar, PTSD...