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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone on this thread, especially the naysayers, should watch the documentary Unrest, on netflix. I watched it when I thought I might have Chronic fatigue. After watching that I wouldn't wish the illness on anyone. It's horrifying. OP I am so so sorry.

[b]But they are getting closer to real diagnostic measures, and we pretty much know the mechanism that causes it.[/b] I think that some places have this test you can do where you do exercise on a bike for a while and they test to see how quickly you recover. People who don't have CFS recover over a few days but people who do have it get worse. [/quote]

This isn't true. The recent NIH study showed consistent abnormalities in immune response, brain activity, and neurotransmitters in the spinal fluid, as compared to a control group. But the "mechanism" that causes it is still unknown.

The study only included people diagnosed with post-infection CFS. So they had to have experienced a diagnosed infection that led to the CFS. So the hypothesis here is that CFS is being caused by some kind of immune malfunction, and possibly also abnormal brain processing, that prevents recovery from infection. This is a promising avenue of study but they are still in the early stages of it.[/quote]

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