Snowdrop
Rebel without a biscuit
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Yes SD you've read and responded and correctly.
But how can you possibly have the opinion that your symptoms are the result of a chronic infection in the vagus nerve?
There has been very little information in terms of medical reports into this and I simply see it as another quite vague theory without any sort of backing.
I understand its a rather new theory so I'm not totally knocking it back, but it is no where near the forefront of possible theories to explain the cause of CFS.
I also wanted to ask, rather than creating a new thread, what you think of Walter Terrelo's hypothesis that all CFS cases are caused by zoonotic bacterium. He claims arsenic to be the actual cure for it and a clinic in Denmark has had a 100% cure rate for CFS.
Reason why everyone hasn't jumped on the bandwagon?
Terrelo filed for a worldwide patent as soon as he uncovered the cause of CFS that's why.
Without knowing anything more than what you've just shared on the subject of Terrelo my opinion would be it's a pile of crap.
What is he trying to patent if arsenic is the cure?
To me the 100% cure rate is a give away. I'm prepared to embrace a variety of (even conflicting) ideas as to what's going on with ME but this isn't one of them.
As for how I can hold the opinion that my symptoms are a result of chronic vagus nerve infection I can only say I dropped the ball on that. Somewhere between questioning whether the paper said anything useful regarding 'sickness behaviour' or whether it needs more investigating to find whether chronic infection could also be involved I lost track of the thread with my next comment <sigh> and was merely stating in general regarding some chronic (not necessarily Vagal) viral activation.