The Onset Poll

[manna]

of course you're right about the no anti-biotics for a virus...duh moment, i actually knew that, honest! thanks for correction. Though I'd guess folks with a virus maybe prescribed them all the same, as you might be implying. Question then is, I wonder how many folks were pre-scribed anti-biotics prior to onset and that triggered the illness rather than what they were prescribed for.

id agree too that vaccines can trigger environmental illnesses.

 

[Little Bluestem]

Was it the flu or the treatment taken to combat it that triggered illness?

I've certainly asked myself that. I took an antibiotic, despite my bad history with them, because I was not able to take time off from work at that time and did not think I would make it otherwise.

I am prone to rebound infections after taking antibiotics. I got the Mother of All Rebound Infections after that one. Fortunately I was past my work deadline, because I was barely able to walk across the house. Actually, the second time I planned to (to get to the phone), I just couldn't make it off of the sofa and fell asleep/passed out until my landlady came home from work. I don't even remember how many days of work I missed. Those first several days are completely lost in the fog.

I wonder if I would have recovered if I hadn't got the antibiotic rebound infection.

 

[manna]

I wonder if I would have recovered if I hadn't got the antibiotic rebound infection.

Hi, this is what I'm getting at. I've heard, more times than I can count, about people who got ill following a virus/infection etc but the question of teatment/meds taken at the time of this onset is never taken into account. anti-biotics, along with steroid meds and the birth control pill, are all top of the list, as prime causes, on the candida questionairres that i have encountered.

rebound infections occur, imo, because antibiotics make you highly acidic, thus killing microbes, but mild acidity, which microbes love and thrive in, is what's left when hyper-acidity, caused by the anti-biotics, leaves the system. its highly possible that the mildly acidic environment loved by microbes, may not have occurred if there had been no anti-biotic intervention.

 

[pcmenten]

For the record: the onset of my chronic symptoms occurred when I contracted HSV1 at age 62.

 

[Liberty Bell]

Hi Cort,

I had a mild version of the symptoms all my life, but after an Epstein-Barr infection ...

Little_bird, in what way did the symptoms show until you catched the EBV? It retrospective, after having been diagnosed with ME/CFS, I realized I've been intolerant to physical strain at least since my teens. Trying to keep up with my friends in the running track often triggered the breakout of (latent i guess) respiratory infections, fever, diarrhea, body ache and impaired cognitive capabilities (like studying).