Makes sense. I’ve noticed that chronic low-grade infections tend to have very similar symptoms, whether the infecting agent is a bacteria, virus, fungus, whatever. As one example, fibromyalgia has the same symptoms as both chronic Lyme’s disease, and certain types of mold exposure, to the point where they are all easily mistaken for one another. Sometimes I really wish I was a research scientist, because I’d love to pursue that lead.
My hunch is that a lot of the vague “fatigue, depression, anxiety attacks, and chronic pain” symptoms women experience and often get diagnosed as fibromyalgia are due to improper sleep.
I was amazed to read that sleep has an amplifying effect on all of these symptoms, and these symptoms of course cause sleepiness in turn. Plus, there does seem to be a general consensus in society that women are inadequate if they can’t function on little sleep, because of the demands of motherhood.