A body–brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses 2024 Jin et al

[poetinsf]

I don't think we have any reliable evidence for CCI mimicking ME/CFS.

I didn't mean all CCI cases present ME/CFS symptoms. But there are a few documented cases of recovering after CCI surgery from what they thought was ME/CFS. Were they coincidences? Maybe. Having a few makes it worth looking into those cases though. Since the paper implicates vagal ganglia nerve in body/brain immune communication, and vagal ganglia nerve gets effected by CCI, it makes it worth inquiring even more. There isn't much reliable evidence for anything anyway, and this line of inquiry is as good as any as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

I didn't mean all CCI cases present ME/CFS symptoms. But there are a few documented cases of recovering after CCI surgery from what they thought was ME/CFS. Were they coincidences? Maybe. Having a few makes it worth looking into those cases though.

I have spent a lot of time looking into those cases and find no credible evidence for symptoms of ME/CFS being related to CCI. There are all sorts of reasons why people get better when they do, which is why we do trials.

In fact it seems that many of these people did not recover after CCI surgery but needed another operation for so-called 'tethered cord' before they 'recovered'. The evidence I see is on a par with taking bleach to stop Covid. There were never pictures of this 'CCI' that I was aware of.

I may appear over-sceptical but when it is so easy on social media to spread memes about procedures that are likely to cause unnecessary deaths in a few and major loss of function in all cases (neck immobilisation) I think it is best to err on the side of caution.