Free nasal microbiome test/study at uBiome

arewenearlythereyet said:
Interesting ...I guess I'm just unsure what you actually get for the money. By this I mean...does it lead to a treatment or understanding/steps you can take to improve symptoms? Or is it more about donating your biome to science? It doesn't seem very clear from the website?
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There can be no diagnosis at this time. They are collecting data. There may be some broad patterns that can point you in some direction. There could be correlations with certain species etc. That's what they're trying to figure out. It's basically a databank.
 
I wouldn't mind doing this three years in a row to see if I am getting the same infection all the time or whatever it is that feels like infection.

Remember to write down that you have ME/CFS for their data. I don't know if they ask whether you have an illness or not.
 
Rosie said:
I wouldn't mind doing this three years in a row to see if I am getting the same infection all the time or whatever it is that feels like infection.

Remember to write down that you have ME/CFS for their data. I don't know if they ask whether you have an illness or not.
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They have questionnaires you can fill out about your health status.
 
Inara said:
Thank you @Rosie.
I wonder if this long shipping time will influence the test.
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They must have good preservatives in the solutions.

I'm thinking I might do my swabs first thing in the morning, within a half hour of waking. Sometime this week. I haven't done it yet.

What time of day is everyone else on this thread doing their swabs?
 
TigerLilea said:
I hadn't thought about it. I'm going to wait until my sinuses are bad, headache is bad, and malaise is bad. I want to know what is happening when my chronic sinusitis is acting up. I imagine it will be in the next week.
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Yeah, I'm glad the timing has been perfect for me as mine are bad at the moment and exactly the sinus problem infection (whatever) I have had all the way through (all the years of my ME) so it will be interesting to see the makeup of it.

All the back of my nasopharyx area feels sore and can feel the mucus there (TMI - sorry). Moving house a month ago has flared it up bad again.
 
Oh :confused: I didn't think about that at all. I received the kit today - so no problem in that direction. Do you think there will be a problem in the other direction, i.e. to the US?
 
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