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Chanel Riggle's avatar

I think we should chat sometime, if you’re up for it. I’ve been in a fog of medical confusion this past year

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

Thank you for this post, Amber. I have probably told you this, but three years ago, toward the beginning of my LC and ME/CFS journey, my infectious disease doc - a longtime ME specialist - asked me if I had a history of migraines and/or endometriosis. A big yes to both - twice yearly migraines with aura from age 16-35, chronic migraines from 35-43, and severe endometriosis which I had surgery for at age 30 and which contributed to my infertility. She said there’s a connection. So the top specialists all know this and now we do too. Since ME is considered a neuroimmune disease, the migraine connection seems quite likely. The endometriosis seems more hormone related and connected to why women are more affected than men. But they all could be connected by the hormonal and immune differences (women’s immune systems are stronger than men’s, which could explain why they go extra haywire sometimes after a viral infection).

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