Welcome to Phoenix Rising!
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 (FM), long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.
To become a member, simply click the Register button at the top right.
However, the authors suggest that these tentacle-like protrusions may be co-opted by non-cytolytic CVB infections in order to transmit the infection into adjacent cells. The authors suggest non-cytolytic viruses may induce cellular protrusions to create a bridge to adjacent cells, which they then cross, so as to be able to infect nearby cells.
Would it make sense to start an own thread for this topic so it's more visible and more people may want to comment?
This seems to be a rather slow process compared to lytic infection and might explain why ME/CFS progresses slowly in some patients.
For antiviral purposes in ME/CFS, it's likely that you would need to take this drug indefinitely
But the anhedonia is worse, I think it's more deppressing than the fact that I'm bedridden.
I was thinking about what speaks for and against my having the same or a similar kind of chronic enterovirus infection as described in this thread.
Speaks for enterovirus:
As I remember the infection that triggered my CFS, it was exactly as described here.
I also think I know the person I got it from and I became ill right on the next morning and I thought "wow, that was fast".
I would not use the similarity of your circumstances to mine as a test for having chronic active enterovirus, because you could have chronic enterovirus even without experiencing the same circumstances.
Given my serology and the prevailing theory of CFS etiology, I am still operating on the primary assumption that my CFS is herpesvirus-induced.
What tests would you recommend to perform in a normal lab?
Athe moment, I can't send my blood abroad for the more sophisticated tests.
Is there any reason why you cannot send a blood serum sample abroad, to Greece for example?
How would that work in Greece? At the Pasteur Institute, I didn't even find an English website. Also, given that blood samples would need to be sent to another country, I wouldn't be very confident of the result.
Public Health Laboratories
Hellenic Pasteur Institute
127 Vass. Sofias Ave
11521 Athens
GREECE
Does it make sense to do this test?
I read a bit about gemcitabine and as I understand it, it has very broad and strong antiviral properties.