Not entirely relevant so I apologise but your situation reminded me of the "inflamation theory of disesase": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34927

Not entirely relevant so I apologise but your situation reminded me of the "inflamation theory of disesase": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492709/ "Inflammation has long been a well-known symptom of many infectious diseases, but molecular and epidemiological research increasingly suggests that it is also intimately linked with a broad range of non-infectious diseases, perhaps even all of them"