Aerowallah
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If the majority of ME sufferers have pre-morbid allergies, including seasonal inhalant allergies...
...and it is common for the seasonal inhalant allergies to disappear, sometimes for years, with the onset of ME...
What's going on?
Is that just an energy steal from other metabolic functions to mount a BIG immune response to the viral trigger or pathogen, an energy steal that cancels out the seasonal immune response to routine allergens???
I just read echinacea, which I've avoided with ME, is adaptogenic, and can also modulate an overactive immune response.
I have done a lot of healing from ME, but when ragweed season kicks in, allergy symptoms ramp for a few days, then shut down along with my energy--just like a mini repeat performance of what happened to me during the first onset of ME. My seasonal allergies disappeared for years, only to come back after (presumably) some repair and rebalancing. I suspect some mild form of MCAS is also in the background.
Has anyone else had this relationship with on / off allergies and ME / fatigue flares? The general public seems to suffer from something they call allergy fatigue, but their allergy symptoms don't diappear with it as mine do.
Has anyone had success with Echinacea treating allergies and ME flares? Its early days, but it seems to help me smooth out these ups and downs of energy, and allergic sypmtoms.
...and it is common for the seasonal inhalant allergies to disappear, sometimes for years, with the onset of ME...
What's going on?
Is that just an energy steal from other metabolic functions to mount a BIG immune response to the viral trigger or pathogen, an energy steal that cancels out the seasonal immune response to routine allergens???
I just read echinacea, which I've avoided with ME, is adaptogenic, and can also modulate an overactive immune response.
I have done a lot of healing from ME, but when ragweed season kicks in, allergy symptoms ramp for a few days, then shut down along with my energy--just like a mini repeat performance of what happened to me during the first onset of ME. My seasonal allergies disappeared for years, only to come back after (presumably) some repair and rebalancing. I suspect some mild form of MCAS is also in the background.
Has anyone else had this relationship with on / off allergies and ME / fatigue flares? The general public seems to suffer from something they call allergy fatigue, but their allergy symptoms don't diappear with it as mine do.
Has anyone had success with Echinacea treating allergies and ME flares? Its early days, but it seems to help me smooth out these ups and downs of energy, and allergic sypmtoms.