About 1.5 yrs ago, I began to notice an influx of throat pictures being posted on the medical subreddits I followed like r/medicaladvice, r/askdocs r/askdoctorsmeee, r/diagnoseme. These throat pictures were next level, I had never seen anyone with strep or mono with tonsils that looked so cryptic and frankly concerning. I felt validated when someone posted on r/askdoctorsmeee “can we cool it with the throat pics?”. I started reading the posts with the throat pictures and kept noticing similarities among them, specifically the timeline of onset and the ongoing, fluctuating nature of the symptoms. Fast forward to February 2022, and I was still seeing throat pictures every day.

I set out to test a hypothesis, and I ended up in a never ending rabbit hole, with new data to gather every day and previous data to understand and catch up on.

My original hypothesis is that the vaccine programs cells to continuously reproduce spike protein, these spike proteins collected in lymph nodes all over the body, but the tonsils would be particularly susceptible to inflammation paired with infection since they would already be overcrowded trying to filter out misfolded proteins that they aren't capable of expelling.

I thought once these mutated immune cells had their original code deleted, it would be replaced with code from the virus, so no matter what signals the body was sending, it would continue to follow the coded instructions until it dies or is destroyed.

When the script is to produce more immune cells following the foreign script, and that script has nothing to do with reading and responding to the signals of the body, you find yourself in a hostage situation.

So as time went on, and I kept noticing more patterns - tingling/sensations of numbness, vertigo, heart pain, calf pain, visual disturbances, tinnitus, frequent urination, mid-nite panics, sweats, nausea, diarrhea.

It got to the point where I almost convinced myself I had A-Beautiful-Minded myself into thinking I was uncovering patterns when maybe I had just been looking at, well, normal people posting average illnesses on medically related subreddits.

But that just didn’t explain four factors that every case had in common:

Sudden onset within 2 years

Previously healthy, between 14 and 20 years old

Ongoing decline of health, acute symptoms in waves

Doctors absolutely miffed, test results inconclusive