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    Oesophageal narrowing

    Did you do a barium swallow? Sounds like achalasia.
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    What is the immunologic pattern in CFS?

    My first blood tests showed low WBC and neutropenia along with a high IgE of 254. What was your IgE level?
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    My biggest fear is deconditioning

    I'm not sure what your thought are on Benadryl but that stuff usually puts me out pretty quick, although I build up a tolerance too it after 2 or 3 days.
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    My biggest fear is deconditioning

    For now I would forget about working out, take a couple of months off and get better and then when you think you can get back in the gym rest some more, because you could quite possibly permanently damage yourself. I know I have made my condition worse by working out at the outset of my illness...