arewenearlythereyet
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Myself I have some doubts whether the staged onset, described as a "two-phase illness onset, which began with a sharp deterioration and subsequent improvement in phase one, that was then followed by another deterioration of symptoms in phase two," is really a separate type of onset.
ME/CFS sometimes has ups and downs, and to me this two-phase staged onset sounds like it could be a sudden onset, after which there was some improvement for a while, followed by a return to the initial illness baseline. So if we consider a staged onset to be just a type of sudden onset, then the study you mentioned above in effect found that:
25% of CFS patients are gradual onset
75% of CFS patients are sudden onset
These are figures comparable to the other study.
Only when you decide to ignore some of the papers presented and rewrite them ??
MS is thought to autoimmune.
Jury's out on that one...just saying it doesn't make it true...