Hi all,

It's quite awhile since I posted and when I did last post I think I was pursuing the CFS/ME/Fibromyalgia issues.

After having been tested for many/all the neurological conditions I came upon a chance remark where someone said that you can have Peripheral Neuropathy with CFS/ME/FMS......and that set the brain ticking.

About 13 weeks ago a cough I had had off and on for a couple of years, escalated in frequency & intensity and became very distressing. A couple of years ago I had a Mycoplasma Pneumoniae infection in my bloodstream and lungs and the cough I developed this year reminded me of that same cough. I mentioned this to my doc a couple of times but he didn't repeat the serum test for the Myco P. So I went to another doc who specialises in CFS/ME/FMS and he tested me for lots of the viruses like Q Fever, Ross River Fever (Australia), Murray Valley Fever, Pitticosis, CMV, Legionella and Mycoplasma.

Well the upshot was, the Mycoplasma P. titre was elevated and a second titre done again last week was also elevated meaning I have a chronic persistent Myco P. infection. CMV was present and active and Legionella was a little out of range on the high side.

Meanwhile I have found quite a bit of medical research which shows that a disproportionate number of people with CFS/ME/FMS have Myco P infections. Cause or effect one might ask? Furthermore I have found references to the fact that for a very tiny number of people a chronic Myco P. infection may cause PN!

So at the moment I'm treating the Myco. P with something called MMS Chlorine Dioxide (a non-pharmaceutical pathogen killer). Last Saturday I reached the maximum dose of MMS and by Monday this week the cough had greatly diminished. It is Friday now and I can say the cough has gone from a 100 to about a 15 in severity and intensity in six days after months of coughing. I am pretty rapt about it really and hope that once the chronic infection subsides I may see some improvement in my many other symptoms.

Increasingly infectious agents are being found to be culprits in many obscure disease processes and it is a great reminder to me to look first at simple causation before necessarily looking at more obscure causative factors.