Bothrops

Hey everyone,
Most of you already no my story, for those who don’t I have been sick for two years with CFIDS/fibro and I have spent the last two years trying to figure out what caused it. I feel like I need to know what went wrong so I can change and lesson my chances of relapse when I do become better. I went to a CFIDS seminar hosted by DR. Charles Lapp. I noticed that I was one of three men there, the majority was women. The majority of the women were over weight. I am a 5’9” male that weighs 172 pds. I just don’t seem to fit the mold. I do realize it can happen to anyone, and the woman may have become over weight since there illness started. Being that I don’t fit the mold, if there is one, I feel that maybe one of my many habits could be the blame.
If I were to go back in time to when it seemed that my health took a wrong turn it would be the year 1991. This was the year I started dating my wife and became sexually active on a daily basis. It was also the year I got a real bad flu and had enlarged lymph nodes in groin area. I have read that 1 out of every 300 people with CFIDS respond to removal of mercury filling and one out of every 200 respond to treatment for yeast. Is it possible that yeast is my problem and how would I get it?
I don’t like telling anyone about my private life but since no one here can see me or knows me personally I have no problem. Lets say I have oral sex with my wife once every two to three days for ten to twenty minutes since I have known her, 14 years! Lets say that even though my wife is very clean down there she has never used any sort of feminine hygiene products. Would this increase my chances of having a problem with yeast? I don’t know anyone’s personal life, this may be a common habit for every married couple, I have no idea. I know that antibiotics will cause problem and I was given a couple injections of rocephin and oral antibiotics when lymph nodes came up in 91. I should also mention that since I have known my wife my stress level has been way up because I had to start a career and move out from parents. I do believe every one goes through this type of stress at that period in there life.
Does anyone think that this could be a problem or is Crook’s yeast connection truly bogus? I am defiantly a man of science and have a hard time believing it but before I met my wife I was sick maybe once every four years, after meeting her I was sick four to five times a year, and disabled the last two! The first thing that seemed to be affected was my skin and nails, leg pain and a lot of sore throats in tonsil adenoid area. If anyone thinks this could be a problem how do I explain such a crazy possibility to my Dr. who by the way is an attractive woman, how embarrassing. I already asked my Dr. about yeast and she said there is no way to check it in men and gave me 3 diflucans to take. I heard this med. Is very bad for you so I have not taken them, should I? I have thought all of this since the beginning I just don’t like blaming it on my wife but I have exhausted all other possibilities. I truly believe that we all got CFIDS/Fibro from something, bad habit, accident, something. It just does not appear for no reason nor is it just bad luck. I also think you can get this for a lot of different reasons with the same outcome, all the planets have to line up.

Please let me know what you all thank so I don’t make a fool out of myself, like I have done so much in the last two years.

Derek