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by VMG 4935 days ago
Nothing you state is in contradiction to the hypothesis that my symptoms are caused by the immune system misidentifying targets. Stressors or nutrition might have something to do with it, they might not. Maybe it's excessive hygiene and lack of exposure to certain infectious agents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis)

The proper treatment of the root cause is allergen immunotherapy, which completely consistent with the false-target hypothesis. I'm just too lazy to do it and I'm fine with treating the symptoms or suffering through them for a few weeks a year.

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Then I am sorry to have wasted your time. I cannot really afford to merely suffer through what my condition causes and alleviating symptoms without treating underlying problems is known to kill people like me. That no doubt biases my assumption that an individual would prefer to solve the underlying problem, especially if it isn't a significant burden to do so.