Little Bluestem
All Good Things Must Come to an End
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I am at the same point myself. I cannot blame the medical profession because they mostly blew me off. "You cannot still be sick because your temperature and white cell count are low". (note: low, not normal) There is no such thing thing as a chronic viral infection". (Wonderful! That means there is no such thing as AIDS or shingles.)I'm just coming to the period of life of realising that, even were I to 'recover', it is doubtful that I would be able to pick up where I had left off... which is what I want to do. I'm a bit pissed off about it really.
When I first became ill and had no idea what I had, I suspected that I was never going to recover. When I heard that researchers had figured out that CFS often began with a viral infection, I thought it likely that I had CFS. My symptoms were very like CFS other than the unknown cause. I knew that my ill health started with a nasty virus and even nastier antibiotic rebound infection. I also thought that since the cause was known a cure would soon follow. No, that wasn't particularly good logic on my part, but one likes to hope.
I have wondered before if some of the people who recover 'only' 90% are really 100% recovered for their age, but are not taking the passing years into account.