Hi, I have been sick for about 4 years now. Have had this intermittent illness, with severe body aches deep inner pain like someone beat me inside with a baseball bat at times, with even this chronic sore throat on one side of my throat....and feels like I have a low grade fever with it too. it is aweful! Been going on intermittently for years now, and when I take American Ginseng it goes away? When i stop taking it it returns and feels even worse. i have thyroid but have my blood tested every 6 months, just did a few days again again and my doctor says my thyroid levels are normal and i am not anemic. My Dad had pernicious anemia so I told my doc and he said the blood work he did on my blood had no warning signs for that either. i used to work in maine as a Gardener for over 10 years and worry maybe lyme disease or some other more serious auto immune disease? I also had a bad hiatal hernia but this started to happen to me way before the hernia got worse or i had symptoms with the hernia, so I don t think it is the hernia. i worry it is something far more serious and I can not get into see a new doctor for 2 months as I live in a rural area and it is not good. I went for a 6 month stretch where I felt better, no symptoms at all, but i also left the town I live in and went to florida for a while and i notice that when i get out of the town I live in, i feel better too?? Not sure if the air is bad here or the water?? I am at my wits end and have no clue what i may have or how serious?? PLEASE HELP!