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Chapter II-1: The Role of Infection in Initiating ME/CFS

Part II: Mechanism of Disease in ME/CFS

While the question of what causes ME/CFS is logically the first

question on people's mind, it is almost an inappropriate question.

It has occupied many years of research on the illness, and has

caused enormous confusion, yet now fades to the background because

it is becoming apparent that it is almost irrelevant. And the

difficulty in finding " a cause " has been one of the prime reasons

that people have doubted the reality of this illness. What has

become apparent is that there are many " causes " , and what is

important is not so much the initiating event or infection, but the

mechanism of what perpetuates the illness. In other words, it is not

the actual onset that matters, but why the symptoms do not resolve

after the onset.

The confusion relates to the fact that the initiating factors for

ME/CFS are commonplace. Every day patients come into my office with

something that can begin the nightmare of ME/CFS. Fortunately, the

vast majority of persons resolves their problem and never comes to

know of the nightmare that could have been.

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Re: CF - a precurser to CFS?

>

> - the tenth that escaped the illness at Truckee - now he or

she may really be a clue. . . can you tell us more about this person?

>

I have waited YEARS for someone to notice that - and ask me about it,

because it is an anomaly!

Congratulations. You are the first.

The tenth teacher was growing so ill in that teachers lounge that he

took his lunch out to Donner Lake and sat there in his truck.

He connected his progressive illness to that lounge and got out.

He was the one who recovered.

That was a clue that made me consider that mold was the mediating

factor in whatever illness it was that passed through: the difference

between those who got better and those who did not.

Those other nine who stayed under the influence of Stachybotrys in

Truckee High School got worse. - It was only this one teacher who

recognized that the burning eyes, coughing, inability to breath,

rashes, fatigue, headaches, and all the other crap that was happening

in that mold ridden teachers lounge was having a deleterious effect

on him. And he bailed out.

And he escaped CFS while those of us who stayed in moldy places while

the " Yuppie Flu " was going through town did not.

The specific cluster of illness that initiated the process which

resulted in the creation of CFS had Stachybotrys Chartarum exposure

as the common denominator.

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http://www.davidsbell.com/PrintLynNewsV3N1.htm

Chapter II-1: The Role of Infection in Initiating ME/CFS

Part II: Mechanism of Disease in ME/CFS

While the question of what causes ME/CFS is logically the first

question on people's mind, it is almost an inappropriate question.

It has occupied many years of research on the illness, and has

caused enormous confusion, yet now fades to the background because

it is becoming apparent that it is almost irrelevant. And the

difficulty in finding " a cause " has been one of the prime reasons

that people have doubted the reality of this illness. What has

become apparent is that there are many " causes " , and what is

important is not so much the initiating event or infection, but the

mechanism of what perpetuates the illness. In other words, it is not

the actual onset that matters, but why the symptoms do not resolve

after the onset.

The confusion relates to the fact that the initiating factors for

ME/CFS are commonplace. Every day patients come into my office with

something that can begin the nightmare of ME/CFS. Fortunately, the

vast majority of persons resolves their problem and never comes to

know of the nightmare that could have been.

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Reply | Forward Message #101570 of 101595

Re: CF - a precurser to CFS?

" wrote:

>

> - the tenth that escaped the illness at Truckee - now he or

she may really be a clue. . . can you tell us more about this person?

>

I have waited YEARS for someone to notice that - and ask me about it,

because it is an anomaly!

Congratulations. You are the first.

The tenth teacher was growing so ill in that teachers lounge that he

took his lunch out to Donner Lake and sat there in his truck.

He connected his progressive illness to that lounge and got out.

He was the one who recovered.

That was a clue that made me consider that mold was the mediating

factor in whatever illness it was that passed through: the difference

between those who got better and those who did not.

Those other nine who stayed under the influence of Stachybotrys in

Truckee High School got worse. - It was only this one teacher who

recognized that the burning eyes, coughing, inability to breath,

rashes, fatigue, headaches, and all the other crap that was happening

in that mold ridden teachers lounge was having a deleterious effect

on him. And he bailed out.

And he escaped CFS while those of us who stayed in moldy places while

the " Yuppie Flu " was going through town did not.

The specific cluster of illness that initiated the process which

resulted in the creation of " CFS " had Stachybotrys Chartarum

exposure as the common denominator.

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