Cocktail that made CFS improve

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My severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) symptoms improved dramatically this year and neither I, nor my doctor know why. Now they're getting worse, and again I have hypotheses, but I don't really know. So, as a scientist who may be soon gaining or losing quite a few abilities, I thought I should summarize what I took over the time my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms, particularly my energy, concentration, memory, arithmetic, and speech improved. (turns out I had Ciguatera poisoning)
I'm not doing as well as I was. I don't know if thats because I tried a holiday from Symbicort to see if Seritide or Ventolin alone would help me, or because I finished the antibiotic course, or if it would have happened anyway. It all started with two puffs of Ventolin, which caused an immediate and dramatic cognitive improvement that night., particularly in my mild aphasia and confusion. This was followed by a one week course of 400 mg antibiotic telethromycin, and one puff twice a day of Symbicort 200. Bigger improvements in concentration and talkativeness Another week of just Symbicort 200 one puff twice per day. Brain fog clearing away, and I also felt a sense of well-being, as if some vague long-term pain had stopped. Symbicort 200 increased to two puffs, twice per day - double the dose. Prescribed 500mg levofloxacin antibiotic for one week course. I feel energised and happy. My technical skills come back, and I am able to go for long walks with a delayed payment of exhasution and pain instead of an immediate one. My "Faustian bargain" of enjoy now and pay later, is available again. My minor acne clears up including some I'd forgotten about. A week later, I fiinish the levofloxacin. I develop a painful yeast infection in my throat and mouth, and lose my voice. My doctor takes me off Symbicort, and asks me to try using just Ventolin alone, two puffs, twice per day. The infection goes away and my voice comes back better than its been for a year. I have some energy, but I start to lose all the other benefits. I spend a day doing radio interviews, editing them and packaging them for our community radio science show Discovery. I get the inevitable "crash" of exhaustion and pain from the activity. I can't stand the total regression to mild aphasia and pain and weakness, so I take Symbicort again. I feel better but develop the yeast infection and lose my voice again. My GP tells me to take yoghurt to fight the yeast. He takes me off the Symbicort again to try Seritide, which has Fluticasone and salmeterol, which are supposed to help asthma in the same way as the combination of budesonide and formoterol in Symbicort. I struggle through two weeks, and try adding ventolin to the mix, but Seritide does not help my cognitive symptoms the way Symbicort does. I've been back on Symbicort for 4 days with a spacer and lots of drinking yoghurt. The yoghurt seems to help supress the yeast infection. The spacer I use with Symbicort was trapping lots of big particles of powder, which are apparently the footholds of the yeast infection. I exhausted the old inhaler and started a new one today, and the new one leaves no visible residue at all in the spacer. Perhaps I was victim of a bad clumpy batch of Symbicort powder that left me more open to yeast infection. I thought if only I could take Symbicorts drug combination that help in a non-powder form, I would get my voice back. I searched google and found a "1998 patent":http://www.pharmcast.com/Patents/122199OG/6004537_aerosol122199.htm for an "Aerosol Symbicort equivalent", this sounded exactly what I needed. Unfortunately, when I contacted AstraZeneca, they informed me that "this presentation is not yet available in Australia and it is hard to say when exactly it will be available." Google had nothing else for me, so I emailed one of the inventors, Professor Frank Blondino, and I'm still waiting on a reply. Surely in six years the patent has gone to manufacture? AstraZeneca's Medical Affairs Associate emailed to tell me that she had "conducted a search of the medical literature as well as the AstraZeneca in-house database, but was unable to locate any reports of Symbicort being used for the treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome." Of course, for all I know, I need to be back on the antobiotics as well, Symbicort on its own may not be enough. The acne came back this week. Something unknown knocked me down and gave me strange neurological symptoms and constant gastroentrological bubbling. Some unknown effect of the medical cocktails I've been subjected to in the last two months has helped the neurological symptoms slowly improve after a dramatic improvement in clarity from the first Ventolin dose. Unfortunately, with me as both scientist and my own guinea pig, its Mad Science, and I haven't managed to isolate what works and get rid of all the side effects.

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