snowathlete
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So as I've posted before early on in my illness, in the first year if I got cold which was rare but did happen I felt a lot better while I had the cold.
Then I had about five years with zero colds.
Very recently in the last year I've started getting colds again but no improvement of ME symptoms now.
This is interesting. I suspect that with ME parts of the immune system are on high all the time which is why you don't get colds, as soon as they invade they are destroyed- no chance to get a foothold. I know this doesn't apply to eveeyone but a large portion of sufferers.
It is very interesting about the hayfever too.
I really really wish that researchers would focus on this as I think it is a major clue that could lead to the disease being figured out. I think we need to find a way to convince ME researchers to look at this.
Then I had about five years with zero colds.
Very recently in the last year I've started getting colds again but no improvement of ME symptoms now.
My mum, who's an immunologist, once told me that normal folks can never have two acute viral infections at once. It just can't happen, because the response you mount to the first creates an extremely hostile environment for any others.
This is interesting. I suspect that with ME parts of the immune system are on high all the time which is why you don't get colds, as soon as they invade they are destroyed- no chance to get a foothold. I know this doesn't apply to eveeyone but a large portion of sufferers.
It is very interesting about the hayfever too.
I really really wish that researchers would focus on this as I think it is a major clue that could lead to the disease being figured out. I think we need to find a way to convince ME researchers to look at this.