Last year I was plagued with recurrent infections.
I ended up with several hospital stays and IV antibiotics.
Follow up included extended use of oral antibiotics as well.
To avoid intestinal problems I started taking probiotics.
I continued to augment with probiotic after the antibiotic courses were finished.
I am still taking them and I notice that if I miss even as
little as a week of the probiotic my energy level drops precipitously.
Thus it is easy for me to believe that a deficiency in
the proper microbe balance could cause serious fatigue.
Probiotics off the shelf?
Eat Hot Peppers...
I take a daily probiotic supplement as prescribed by my MD at the NOVA U neuroimmune clinic that specializes in ME/CFS, but it hasn’t “cured” my ME/CFS...yet.
I will say I am now getting better after starting treatment at the NOVA clinic which is an improvement after going downhill steadily for the prior 15 years, but I don’t attribute that to the probiotic. I attribute it to 1500mg of Valtrex/day to beat down the HHV-4 reactivated Herpes virus (same as mono) that was out of control due to my immune system being compromised from ME/CFS for so many years.
When you have ME/CFS your childhood and young adult diseases can get “reactivated” like mono, the kissing disease you got in college can come back from hiding in the recesses in your body...so they give you Valtrex for that.