Hello, This is my first post reaching out for advice. I hope I'm not asking questions which have already been discusssed.
I have been diagnosed with post viral fatigue after getting a flu-like illness at the beginning on November 2017. I had been on a flight two days before the symptoms started and I was never tested to find out which strain it was.
I am of no doubt after reading your stories that I do have post viral fatigue.
It pains me when people ask if this condition is in the mind, but I've just read about the Mickle theory, which has the hypothesis that this condition it starting in the hypothalmous. I had just started a new job and experienced a huge amount of family stress at the same time as I got the viral infection, which still has not been resolved. When I read about the theory by Dr Mickle that this is a condition is caused by repressed / subconscious emotions it isn't something I can't immediately and readily dismiss. I have a mother who has all the characterists of a narcisstist and she is the one that has dismissed this as being in my mind! I've had to distance myself from the whole dysfunctional family and obviously this is a highly emotional event.
What are people's thoughts on Mickle Therapy?
I can say with confidence this is an immune system malfunction, because I'm now allergic to things I never was before. Is Mickle theory right that the hyperthalmous really can alter the immune system?
I have a very pale/ grey pallor and dark circles around my eyes, which waxes and wanes with the fatigue. On an up I get colour back and then when I'm about to crash the first symptoms that happens ten minutes before the crashing fatigue is the washed out face. Can that really be the result of unconscious emotions in the hyperthalmous creating system malfunctions? I should say for clarity Mickle hypothesis have never been proven, but some people have written testimonies to say Mickle therapy cured them.
Thanks for your thoughts.