HI Rachel, yes the viral problems and associated symptoms are vast and yet so difficult to diagnose and pin down. It would be great if there were just textbook viruses and textbook solutions <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Mine is just too darned bizzare for words. Absolutely insane, much worse than the glandular fever I had, and worse than anything else. At least, even in their severity, I had the ability to improve if I made the right efforts. Now? The nature of whatever it is, is truly unpredictable, erratic, crazy and not something I can really understand or heal.

Also no diagnosis of it, no ability to address it, other than taking this or that, or doing this or that and hoping I might hit the jackpot. Most I ever get to, is a seeming improvement or temporary control, but that is short lived and so often it is just severe.

So what you have sounds also very strange and volatile. What allows these things to take hold? Perhaps it is the mercury from being poisoned for so many years, leaving on in a vulnerable state and then uanble to rise above the infection later on. I do not know. Perhaps really volatile hidden bacterias are able to get in and take hold that would never normally have gotten in....?

I'm just taking guesses, because that is all I have. My infection so far has been active for 5 years and showing no sign of going away. It's always there and if I feel better sometimes, I go down again for the most part. I'm more chronically ill than I am "ok". This has been worse than the mercury believe it or not. The mercury was insane, but detoxable!

Thanks for the well wishes Rachel, wish the same for you too and others on here in their plight to get well.