Sudden FLU? What was different on this day?

I believe I've came down with CFS, looking for some confirmation

08/14/05

Hello,

I was wondering if those of you out there could maybe confirm for me if I have CFS, since I'm sure many of you have been dealing with it for a while. Around a month ago I was feeling healthy as can be, on a trip in California with my buddies. When one day I suddenly felt like I had the flu. It came up out of nowhere and completely took me down. Since then I have gotten every blood test you can name, I've gotten an MRI on my head. And I've done skin tests, you name it. And nothing has helped, this is what has led me to believe I have CFS. My symptoms include:

Really bad brain fog, confusion.
Extreme fatigue, I am constantly tired and never up for anything.
I feel hot, mostly at night...but to the touch of someone else they say I feel cold. Which is confusing.
When I wake up from sleeping over 10 hours I'm still dead, haven't felt refreshed in over a month.
Not as social as I used to be, depressed...and really frustrated.

This has not been letting up at all, the doctors have no answers for me...I have an appointment setup to see a Neurologist. Should I even be going? That's the next doctor my main doctor suggested I go see...mainly because of my bad brain fog. What I'm asking is do these symptoms relate to what you guys started off with? The fatigue is relentless and I basically feel useless 24/7. I'm 18 years old, decent physical condition. Don't see how this could have came up on me. Also when it hit, I started off with a swollen gland in my throat...and I've been reading on here about that sometimes being part of the problem.

Thanks for any help you guys can give me. Since I'm heading off to college very soon, I don't want this to be a burden my whole time there.

Sincerely,
Trevor

What was different on this day?

This looks like exposure to 2-butoxyethanol

I suspect it is the cause of CFS or actually, more correctly, CFIDS

Even if someone new entered onto the scene ... with you and your buddies that day ... because the 2nd hand solvent exposure (getting in your eyes the vapors that someone can expel in their breath - is an exposure too!)

Definitions on CFS etc www.valdezlink.com/cfid_share.htm

and more about what I'm talking about. I added links to this basic page on what this chemical can do
http://www.valdezlink.com/acute.htm

... hoping doctors will check more in the blood in immune system. This chemical damages the Central Nervous System, so in my opinion you can skip the neurologist -

But I would find a doctor to do some of these other checks to find the fatigue. I suspect it is compensating autoimmune hemolytic anemia. That's what this chemical causes. www.valdezlink.com/why_fatigue.htm

PS ... going to share a dorm room 8-17-05?

I would be concerned for the person you are sharing your dorm room with. I learned about this chemical because someone in my family was harmed by it. Right after the 'bioremediation experiment' of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup, 1989 there were 1,000 young men that returned to college, or like you, went to college for the first time.

Now that I've learned about this chemical & how someone can be affected 2nd hand from someone else, I would surely watch carefully how your dorm room person is doing. Maybe even ask for a private room for health reasons.

So, sad that EPA has 'delisted' EGBE. The chemical companies successfully lobbied them saying that 2-butoxyethanol does not bioaccumulate & NOW there is not need to put the pesticide EPA registration number on Lysol Tub 'n tile or disclose in anything. No limits on how much of this chemical can be released from manufacturing plants such as in dry cleaning and plastics industries, etc etc.

immunesupport.com/chat/forums/message.cfm?id=615852&B=FM

I think that you may have been sitting next to someone that was strongly exposed. In a bar situation, you may have gotten exposed to the chemical I'm concerned about .... second hand

Did your eyes burn and hurt?

Please ask your doctor to check the retic count. It might be elevated & a clue early on, that there is autoimmune hemolytic anemia - the fatigue (biomarker of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning) But it goes back to normal range after 2.5 days.

http://www.valdezlink.com/check_blood.htm#retic

Ask if the red blood cells look 'ragged and beat up'

Personally, I wouldn't be concerned with Lyme disease test. Lots of other things like that and thyroid go on to add the signs of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning. The signs are there, in my opinion, because they are a 2ndary effect of this chemical, too ... so of course, the other signs are noticed.

Consider exposure to a glycol ether for cause of 'the flu' especially glycol ether with BUTYL *