@pibee, what are your thoughts on the research? To me, it seems like if IA or plasmapheresis (PP) immediately helps someone (even if they relapse), that we identified an autoimmune cause. Whether this is a sub-set of ME/CFS or another mis-diagnosed autoimmune disease remains to be seen IMO but I think this preliminary work is really interesting and important.
You are like me with a whole bunch of autoantibodies (although not exactly the same ones) but we overlap re: the Cell Trend and thyroid autoantibodies. Our symptoms are different, though, too, and I have never had hypertension (only hypotension) and we've talked about the other stuff before.
But overall, I am glad that one of the researchers is focusing on autoimmunity and am impressed with her work thus far. I hope she is able to get more funding for future studies.