Going into details will just invite more down votes. You can look through my older posts if you really want to know. I talked about it a bit when I first created this account.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome treated by chelation therapy. His hypothesis is that mercury poisoning caused it.
OP is not an anti-vaxxer but was accused of being one because they blamed mercury.
OP also had bone fractures and fascia disintegration.
OP also had tense forearm muscles (?) described as 'rock hard' due to RSI.
I don't know why you're being so vague about it. It's likely you're being downvoted for the vagueness rather than anything else. Still, he has an email listed if you're curious.
I led with the details on a different account. My karma was destroyed and afaict my posting privileges were revoked for posting too frequently with explanations. I don't think you understand the huge amount of anger that some people have towards people like me saying mercury caused this illness.
Leading vaguely and easing people into the details prevents my karma from being destroyed. I'm not sure how else to handle this except by not talking about it at all, but the only way I can make meaning out of my experience is to help others with the same illness, so I will continue to do so. I found the cure from posts like the one's I make now. I'm paying it forward.
Who would have thought that, on HN of all places, a request for privacy would be interpreted as a license for abuse?
What the fuck do those even have to do with each other?
Also, upvoted for actually posting object-level claims rather than whining about downvotes.
It's not antivaxx, but it's antivaxx-adjacent, and awful stories like this is what people think of when someone promotes chelation against the medical consensus.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/1616
That doesn't prove anything about any particular use of it, but that's why people can get very angry when it comes up.
Now, it turns out that the very small amounts of thiomersal in vaccines were probably safe. This was by no means obvious at the time. Mercury poisoning is nasty - the symptoms can appear long after the initial exposure, range from death to subtle neurological effects like changes in behaviour and loss of IQ, and appear at relatively low exposures. Also, there just wasn't all that much modern research into thiomersal or its metabolite ethylmercury.