It could be anything that is corrosive, like cleaning chemicals. If so, I'd think it would have to be a fine powder or mist to cause little dots...
I think you're right, and that "prodrome" does not mean that the disease process hasn't started, just that it doesn't meet the official diagnosis...
Following onset, I developed mild anemia with low RBC's, high MCH and normal hemoglobin. I think this is called "macrocytic anemia," but I could...
Have you been handling any materials that might be considered corrosive? This webpage discusses something that looks very similar (see image...
As far as prodrome goes, probably the weirdest thing I had in the months before onset was an odd intolerance to cold. On several occasions, I...
This 2018 paper found that respiratory viruses can alter the gut microbiome (in mice). Assuming that something similar can happen in humans,...
Balance problems have long been recognized in ME. It's certainly not universal, but nor does it seem to be all that uncommon. Connecting the...
FWIW, in the first few years of the illness, I had a couple of liver function test results that seemed to concern the doctors who ordered them....
Perhaps they have already thought of this, but I wonder if their biobank/patient registry has a mechanism to retrieve samples from patients who...
The low BMI connection to CFS reminds me that I was very thin as a child, even though my height was normal. My older brother was never anywhere...
I was in my early 20's and had a lot of stamina at the time of onset. I would ride my bike for an hour or two several times a week for exercise...
The same thought crossed my mind, but I'm not so sure that it is easy to find a group of bacterial and metabolite differences in a large...
This website ranks AUC (area under the curve) scores like this: ( a score of .50 is like a coin toss ) .90-1 = excellent (A) .80-.90 = good (B)...
Sort of along the same lines, I noticed that ceramides were mentioned, but only becasue I first heard of ceramides last winter when my...
Not that I claim to fully understand this, but I think a major take-a-way here is to be found in chart S3 in the Supplementary Figures & Tables....
He does not specifically mention burning sensations in the video. When he mentioned that small-fiber polyneuropathy was being found in skin...
Interesting. I've never really paid much attention to "small-fiber neuropathy," considering it to be connected to fibromyaglia, which I assumed...
Interesting article on how the cytomegalovirus (CMV) evades the immune system. It prevents the infected cell's MHC (HLA) molecules from reaching...
This somehow reminds of the time that talk show host David Letterman became irate when his attempt to replicate the "Denorex Challenge" was...
Leonard Jason is at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago apparently uses a version of "The Philadelphia Grid System," in which there...
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