@Valentijn
Same here re: ESR. In fact my old GP (now retired) said he could use it as a barometer of how I was feeling. The worse I felt, the higher it went. I have never had explanation for it. I have positive ANA (weakly in 2009 - not sure now) which I linked to the AI thyroid disease which I was overtly developing during that ... But then tbh I don't know if it was positive or negative before 2009 as I have no results.
The ESR thing confuses me as I read that typically it is very low in M.E. patients. As far as I am aware, mine has never been within normal range since M.E. onset, let alone low. I wonder how many other people with M.E. have a consistently raised ESR level.
Same here re: ESR. In fact my old GP (now retired) said he could use it as a barometer of how I was feeling. The worse I felt, the higher it went. I have never had explanation for it. I have positive ANA (weakly in 2009 - not sure now) which I linked to the AI thyroid disease which I was overtly developing during that ... But then tbh I don't know if it was positive or negative before 2009 as I have no results.
The ESR thing confuses me as I read that typically it is very low in M.E. patients. As far as I am aware, mine has never been within normal range since M.E. onset, let alone low. I wonder how many other people with M.E. have a consistently raised ESR level.