notmyself
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i think most of us know this allready.many are probably scared of this reality and are in denial because this mean little hope for efective treatment in the future that will work for everybody. PS : alcohol make my symptoms better, i had drunk 14 beers one night ,suferring just hungover the next day.. so while we probably have fatigue,brain fog, muscle problems etc.in common ,just like you i doubt we have the same disease..it just doesn t fit, and many others things don't fit..the same disease thing is a loose endAs quite a few others have mentioned, I don't believe we are dealing with a singular disease here. There is simply too much diversity in our symptoms among us. Obviously, punishing crushing fatigue is one of the common denominators, but aside from that there is just too much diversity among all of us. When someone here recently posted that consumption of alcohol gave them energy, I knew that I have really nothing disease-wise in common with that person. Alcohol kills me. It's bottled poison for me, exacerbating all my ailments. Drinking wine, after a few hours time, makes me nearly comatose. Not something I aspire to.
I don't even subscribe to the subgroup theory, where we really all have the same disease, but just different varieties of the same thing. I think many of us have completely unrelated disorders, from a physiological perspective. It's been said of cancer, that cancer is not a disease, it is 30 different diseases. I think the same holds true for CFS. We are dealing with multiple pathologies here, multiple diseases here.
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