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What caused your ME onset?
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Hard to be 100% sure, as lots of bad things happened together. It could have been the combination. Suspicious disappearance of cat, leading to long searches for a long time, leaving job, consequent poverty...What caused your ME onset?
What caused your ME onset?
Oh yes, I also had antibiotics (for a bad cold?), got bitten by a dog and had a consequent tetanus injection, drank much too much, took various prescribed drugs, not least amytriptiline or nortryptyline, eventually took a large overdose and spent a month in hospital as a result of that.I first got ME when I was 18, after a long period of stress, a long lasting viral infection and after many courses of antibiotics for different things over the years.
Then I cleaned up the junk food in my diet, cookies, cakes, etc, almost completely stopped drinking and started taking a few supplements. After about 2 years I was able to go back to work full time and function at a very high level.
I didn't continue to take care of myself, drank excessively, started eating junk food again. I got repeated cases of bronchitis, once or twice a year.
I needed antibiotics to get rid of the bronchitis. I am convinced, all the junk food, stress, drinking and antibiotics, destroyed my digestive tract, creating my ME for a second time.
Treating "dysbiosis" and "leaky gut" is helping me a great deal and I believe are the root cause of my ME.
@Cheesus -- oregano oil is a hard hitter!