Re: Stress and cortisol, was: Introduction

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Hi, .

Thank you. This is verry, verry interesting, indeed! I'm not sure

what it means yet, but verrry interesting.

Rich

> >

> > Hi, .

>

> > Taking a break from the diatribe for a moment, I actually have a

> > serious question for you. You've shared the fact that mold is a

> > major issue for you. Here's my question: Do you know whether

you

> > were always sensitive to mold, or whether in the mid 80s

something

> > changed in your sensitivity or in the character of the molds to

> > which you were exposed? I really would like to understand what

> > happened to you.

> > Rich

>

>

> Yes. I was a patient of Dr Cheney's BEFORE the " Yuppie Flu " went

> through and dropped a bunch of us in our tracks.

> Guess what my complaint was: " Chronic Fatigue "

> Prior to the weird flu, my problems would have been adequately

> described as inexplicable fatigue, but after the " ? " happened, the

> sensation turned into life destroying godawful drop dead

> neurological living death illness that was NOTHING like fatigue.

> But got to be called " CFS " anyway.

> As I told Dr Cheney: " I have an inexorably increasing reactivity

> to mold that gets progressively worse no matter where I live or

how

> well I take care of myself " . This is what brought me to Dr

Cheney's

> office in Carnelian Bay in early 1984.

> My " susceptibility " to mold was PRIOR and not later as is

> automatically assumed, just as it was for the " Truckee teachers " ,

> and various other CFSers I have questioned about this phemonenon.

> The chronicity of the illness seemed to target those of us who had

a

> subclinical prior susceptibility to mycotoxins.

> Interesting how Dr Shoemakers " 24% " HLA genotype is suggestive of

> the " 25% ME group " .

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