Hold on a sec dont ARVs work mostly on blood infection ? yet we are told that copies of the virus are low in the blood any way, so how would ARVs help much if they dont actually reach where the virus is hiding, like the brain for example, or muscle tissue, im with what Cort said, or the fact the immune system becomes tricked or trained, or confused in fighting the virus, a sort of auto immune response ( possibly after a series of other viral assaults ) could be many different ones ( same effect ) overactive immune system attacking low copy numbers in the tissues. ARVs might be useless ? unless they reach those tissues ?
where as, heathly xmrv peoples immune systems have not become sensetized to the virus yet, possibly needing other viral attacks to start the sensetizing process off.
If true, if one could teach the immune system to start ignoring the low copy numbers of xmrv or de sensetizing it, then symptoms may improve. if theres any relationship to xmrv and sickness in ME.CFS then i belive that has happened to me, but it took 5 years of poor health and another 5 years of up and down health, then another 5 years of even less immune response to get closer to those healthy xmrv carriers that i was before i got sick.
No one in my family has ever had ME/CFS type illness. yet my partner must be almost certainly xmrv positive as we have been together for 21 years, and my illness started 16 years ago. why has she not succomed to this illness. it must in some way relate to a variable immune response in different people and possibly for different reasons.
Otherwise this would not happen, and we wouldnt get healthy xmrv carriers, yet we do. Thats my theory, but really im just guessing based on my own experiances. Thats all i can do, apologies if im off on this ?
One last thing how come my partner hasnt delevoped cancer after having no immune responses that i can tell off, ( would they show though ? ) thats something i feel worried about developing cancer, just recently ive started getting pains in my stomach just under my ribcage on the left, i can pin point the area, it keeps coming and going, but isnt so far after weeks, actually going.
Hey hope its a ulcer, thats sounds better ?
My muscles and joints, pains in the back of the kneck and blurry vision are all getting slowly worse, if the ME didnt kill me. why i do feel like i aint as lucky as what i should feel compared to still being extremly sick.