Everyone · 197 people
How it went for everyone who tried one of its treatments
Helped means they said it helped with what they took it for, which may be one symptom and not the illness. Each person counts once: someone who tried several of these treatments is split equally across those they said how it went for.
Shares are out of the 138 people who said how it went for at least one of them, each counted once, the parts rounded to whole people. 59 more tried one or credit the approach without saying how it went.
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| How it went | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Helped a lot | 14 | 10% |
| Helped | 87 | 63% |
| No change | 19 | 14% |
| Worse | 16 | 12% |
| Much worse | 2 | 1% |
Everyone · 40 people
Among the 40 who credit it with their improvement, here’s how they are now
Credit it means they say it’s one reason they got better.
Where each person was at the end of their story, or in their latest post that says how they are, compared with their worst point.
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| Outcome described | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Recovered | 2 | 5% |
| Near normal | 8 | 20% |
| Much better | 14 | 35% |
| Somewhat better | 11 | 28% |
| Relapsed | 5 | 12% |
Did it last?
- 1 of 40 said the benefit of a treatment in this approach wore off.
- 27 of 40 say they still need to keep doing something (not always one in this approach) to stay well.
Read from what people wrote, and the more someone wrote, the more likely they are to mention it. Some people stop posting before saying, so the real number may be higher.
Long COVID · 157 people
How it went for everyone who tried one of its treatments
Helped means they said it helped with what they took it for, which may be one symptom and not the illness. Each person counts once: someone who tried several of these treatments is split equally across those they said how it went for.
Shares are out of the 111 people who said how it went for at least one of them, each counted once, the parts rounded to whole people. 46 more tried one or credit the approach without saying how it went.
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| How it went | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Helped a lot | 13 | 12% |
| Helped | 72 | 65% |
| No change | 11 | 10% |
| Worse | 14 | 12% |
| Much worse | 1 | 1% |
Long COVID · 34 people
Among the 34 who credit it with their improvement, here’s how they are now
Credit it means they say it’s one reason they got better.
Where each person was at the end of their story, or in their latest post that says how they are, compared with their worst point.
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| Outcome described | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Recovered | 2 | 6% |
| Near normal | 8 | 23% |
| Much better | 11 | 32% |
| Somewhat better | 8 | 24% |
| Relapsed | 5 | 15% |
Shares are rounded to add up to 100, so two equal counts can show a point apart.
Did it last?
- 1 of 34 said the benefit of a treatment in this approach wore off.
- 24 of 34 say they still need to keep doing something (not always one in this approach) to stay well.
Read from what people wrote, and the more someone wrote, the more likely they are to mention it. Some people stop posting before saying, so the real number may be higher.
ME/CFS · 39 people
How it went for everyone who tried one of its treatments
Helped means they said it helped with what they took it for, which may be one symptom and not the illness. Each person counts once: someone who tried several of these treatments is split equally across those they said how it went for.
Shares are out of the 26 people who said how it went for at least one of them, each counted once, the parts rounded to whole people. 13 more tried one or credit the approach without saying how it went.
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| How it went | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Helped a lot | 1 | 4% |
| Helped | 15 | 58% |
| No change | 7 | 27% |
| Worse | 2 | 7% |
| Much worse | 1 | 4% |
ME/CFS · 6 people, few people
Among the 6 who credit it with their improvement, here’s how they are now
Credit it means they say it’s one reason they got better.
Where each person was at the end of their story, or in their latest post that says how they are, compared with their worst point.
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| Outcome described | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Recovered | 0 | 0% |
| Near normal | 0 | 0% |
| Much better | 3 | 50% |
| Somewhat better | 3 | 50% |
| Relapsed | 0 | 0% |
Did it last?
- No one said the benefit of a treatment in this approach wore off.
- 3 of 6 say they still need to keep doing something (not always one in this approach) to stay well.
Read from what people wrote, and the more someone wrote, the more likely they are to mention it. Some people stop posting before saying, so the real number may be higher.
Everyone · not split by condition
By how ill people were
Only the 40 who credit this approach, so people it didn’t help or made worse aren’t here. How they are now is their outcome overall.
| Severity at worst | How they are now | n | Recovered or near normal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | 8 | 75%, few people | |
| Moderate | 8 | 25%, few people | |
| Severe | 17 | 12% | |
| Very severe | 3 | 0%, few people | |
| Not stated | 4 | 0%, few people |
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| At worst | Outcome | People | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Recovered | 1 of 8 | 13% |
| Mild | Near normal | 5 of 8 | 62% |
| Mild | Much better | 1 of 8 | 13% |
| Mild | Somewhat better | 1 of 8 | 12% |
| Moderate | Recovered | 1 of 8 | 13% |
| Moderate | Near normal | 1 of 8 | 12% |
| Moderate | Much better | 4 of 8 | 50% |
| Moderate | Somewhat better | 1 of 8 | 13% |
| Moderate | Relapsed | 1 of 8 | 12% |
| Severe | Near normal | 2 of 17 | 12% |
| Severe | Much better | 8 of 17 | 47% |
| Severe | Somewhat better | 3 of 17 | 18% |
| Severe | Relapsed | 4 of 17 | 23% |
| Very severe | Much better | 1 of 3 | 33% |
| Very severe | Somewhat better | 2 of 3 | 67% |
| Not stated | Somewhat better | 4 of 4 | 100% |
Everyone · not split by condition
Treatments in this approach
The bar (How it went) and the line under each name are among everyone on the site who tried it and said how it went, the same numbers as on each treatment’s own page. Recovered and Faded are among the people here who credit it. Grey numbers rest on fewer than 10 people; a faded share in red is a third or more.
Fewer than 3 people here credit these, so they aren’t ranked: Olmesartan (Benicar), ARBs (unspecified).
Everyone · 40 people
20 of the 40 people
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Long COVID with POTS and MCAS that nearly killed her, improved to 90% then relapsed
Kestrel 13581 fell ill at 19 after a COVID vaccine in December 2021, with numbness, breathlessness, POTS and MCAS that nearly killed her and ended her nursery-teaching apprenticeship. Statins, sartans, low-dose naltrexone and a ketogenic diet brought her to…
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Fatigue and weakness from long COVID, barely working, much better after stopping Valsartan
Rain 87885 fell ill in 2022 with fatigue and muscle weakness and was barely able to work 10–12 hours a week. Stopping the blood-pressure drug Valsartan sharply cut their fatigue and weakness after a year and a half; a March 2025 COVID infection set them…
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Long COVID with POTS and brain fog, now nearly back to normal after TRT and telmisartan
After COVID-19, they had long COVID with POTS, brain fog, fatigue, insomnia and visual disturbance. Nicotine lozenges reduced POTS symptoms by about 90%, though brain fog and fatigue remained; after reinfection it came back, but later TRT and telmisartan…
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Severe insomnia after long COVID, nearly back to normal with BP and sleep drugs
After a mild but long COVID infection and overexertion, this patient in Germany had severe insomnia, adrenaline surges, high heart rate and near-hypertensive blood pressure. Heart/BP drugs and a sleep drug eased symptoms over 6-12 months. After about two…
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ME/CFS severe and mostly bedridden with constant PEM, somewhat better with keto
Ocean 45310 developed ME/CFS gradually from 2014, symptoms first appearing one or two days a week. Strength training with a trainer and repeated hiking worsened them from mild to severe, leaving them mostly bedridden with constant PEM. A keto diet helped…
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Long COVID, barely able to walk to the mailbox, now 80% of normal after stopping work
A dentist in his late forties dates his long COVID to a second vaccine dose and kept working about four years as he worsened, with repeated reinfections; at his worst he could barely walk to the mailbox. Stopping clinical work, along with supplements,…
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Long COVID, almost sedentary for three years, much better with HRT and low-sugar diet
Dew 24091 fell ill with long COVID in 2022 and was later diagnosed with POTS and ME/CFS, spending about three years almost sedentary. A whole-food, low-sugar diet, HRT (about 30% better in nearly every area) and candesartan for vestibular migraine each…
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Bedridden with ME/CFS, much better and back to part-time work after Abilify and exercise
Man in his fifties in Tennessee was diagnosed with CFS in May 2024; he was bedridden about two months and spent six months in a recliner, and did not work for nine months. He credited Abilify, naltrexone, Depakote, losartan and Vyvanse, a lean-protein…
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Long COVID with chest pain and fatigue, close to normal but breathless on standing
A 34-year-old man developed very high blood pressure, chest pain and fatigue after a second Pfizer dose in August 2021. Omicron in January 2022 brought symptoms back with ice-pick headaches, muscle fatigue and later burning neuropathy in one hand. He…
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Bedridden after floxing in long COVID, much better with psilocybin microdoses and Truvada
Five years into long COVID they called themselves mild and still working, though being floxed during long COVID worsened them from mild to moderate for at least a year, left them bedridden and cost them work and savings. Reinfections repeatedly knocked them…
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Long COVID with panic attacks, POTS-like symptoms and neuropathy, now recovered
Maple 72119, a Boston orchestra musician, fell ill with long COVID in 2022, with panic attacks, near-syncope, POTS-like symptoms, tinnitus and neuropathy. Stellate ganglion blocks, nattokinase, propranolol, metformin and losartan helped them to about 90% by…
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Long COVID with chest pain, fatigue and PEM, now somewhat better with low-dose tirzepatide
Beech 85908 developed long COVID after a mild infection in February 2022, with chest pain and fatigue, then worsened after a second infection in 2023, adding PEM, dizziness and breathlessness. MRI showed subclinical myo-pericardial inflammation and…
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Bedbound for weeks with long COVID, now almost back to normal after Pemgarda
A mid-40s US man developed long COVID after a COVID-19 infection in August 2023, having had two earlier post-viral illnesses. He was bedbound for weeks with brain fog, head pressure, POTS, tinnitus, eye problems and suicidal episodes, and three…
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Long COVID with night-time suffocation, somewhat better after apheresis and candesartan
A 46-year-old woman with long COVID, POTS and MCAS said her blood pressure rose to 140/90-150/100 after COVID, with sudden night-time tachycardia and suffocation on beta blockers. Candesartan ended the suffocation and tachycardia and gave about 5% less…
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Heart failure, brain fog in long COVID, much better on heart drugs and low-histamine diet
With long COVID possibly dating to February 2020 and certainly since an untested flu-like illness in December 2024, Tundra 86863 has neck and back pain, night-time tremors, histamine reactions, brain fog and heart problems. Five days in hospital in July 2025…
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Bedridden for a month with long COVID, now much better on rest and antihistamines
This US man fell ill with long COVID around July 2022 and quit two jobs. He suppressed symptoms with antihistamines, pushed on at a physical job, crashed and was bedridden for a month, then recovered to about 75-80% by late 2023 on rest, Claritin, curcumin,…
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Long COVID, close to unable to work, now recovered after montelukast
Infected in 2020, they could not work full time for three months, needed two days in bed after grocery shopping and were close to being unable to work. Montelukast fixed the fatigue and POTS within hours, with bilastin, losartan, vaccination and continued…
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Long COVID with POTS and histamine intolerance, nearly back to normal
Caught Covid on 1 March 2024 and developed POTS, high blood pressure, tachycardia and, from late March, histamine intolerance. Extra evening metoprolol and losartan settled the cardiac symptoms, though a migraine with aphasia put them in hospital, and an…
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Long COVID with brain fog and neuropathy, much better after IVIG
Long COVID began in December with a heart rate of 133, blood pressure of 182/103 and repeated ER visits, followed by brain fog, anxiety, food intolerance, tinnitus, neuropathy and insomnia. Antihistamines and a low-histamine diet helped first; colostrum and…
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Housebound with long COVID, now somewhat better with HBOT and cetirizine
Badger 52177 caught COVID in March 2020 and became severe, housebound and mostly in bed, with fatigue, PEM, constant headaches and severe insomnia. About eight months in, hyperbaric oxygen therapy stopped the decline and they improved slowly to moderate,…
The newest 20 people who credit ARBs.
Long COVID · 34 people
20 of the 34 people
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Long COVID with POTS and MCAS that nearly killed her, improved to 90% then relapsed
Kestrel 13581 fell ill at 19 after a COVID vaccine in December 2021, with numbness, breathlessness, POTS and MCAS that nearly killed her and ended her nursery-teaching apprenticeship. Statins, sartans, low-dose naltrexone and a ketogenic diet brought her to…
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Fatigue and weakness from long COVID, barely working, much better after stopping Valsartan
Rain 87885 fell ill in 2022 with fatigue and muscle weakness and was barely able to work 10–12 hours a week. Stopping the blood-pressure drug Valsartan sharply cut their fatigue and weakness after a year and a half; a March 2025 COVID infection set them…
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Long COVID with POTS and brain fog, now nearly back to normal after TRT and telmisartan
After COVID-19, they had long COVID with POTS, brain fog, fatigue, insomnia and visual disturbance. Nicotine lozenges reduced POTS symptoms by about 90%, though brain fog and fatigue remained; after reinfection it came back, but later TRT and telmisartan…
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Severe insomnia after long COVID, nearly back to normal with BP and sleep drugs
After a mild but long COVID infection and overexertion, this patient in Germany had severe insomnia, adrenaline surges, high heart rate and near-hypertensive blood pressure. Heart/BP drugs and a sleep drug eased symptoms over 6-12 months. After about two…
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Long COVID, barely able to walk to the mailbox, now 80% of normal after stopping work
A dentist in his late forties dates his long COVID to a second vaccine dose and kept working about four years as he worsened, with repeated reinfections; at his worst he could barely walk to the mailbox. Stopping clinical work, along with supplements,…
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Long COVID, almost sedentary for three years, much better with HRT and low-sugar diet
Dew 24091 fell ill with long COVID in 2022 and was later diagnosed with POTS and ME/CFS, spending about three years almost sedentary. A whole-food, low-sugar diet, HRT (about 30% better in nearly every area) and candesartan for vestibular migraine each…
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Long COVID with chest pain and fatigue, close to normal but breathless on standing
A 34-year-old man developed very high blood pressure, chest pain and fatigue after a second Pfizer dose in August 2021. Omicron in January 2022 brought symptoms back with ice-pick headaches, muscle fatigue and later burning neuropathy in one hand. He…
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Bedridden after floxing in long COVID, much better with psilocybin microdoses and Truvada
Five years into long COVID they called themselves mild and still working, though being floxed during long COVID worsened them from mild to moderate for at least a year, left them bedridden and cost them work and savings. Reinfections repeatedly knocked them…
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Long COVID with panic attacks, POTS-like symptoms and neuropathy, now recovered
Maple 72119, a Boston orchestra musician, fell ill with long COVID in 2022, with panic attacks, near-syncope, POTS-like symptoms, tinnitus and neuropathy. Stellate ganglion blocks, nattokinase, propranolol, metformin and losartan helped them to about 90% by…
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Long COVID with chest pain, fatigue and PEM, now somewhat better with low-dose tirzepatide
Beech 85908 developed long COVID after a mild infection in February 2022, with chest pain and fatigue, then worsened after a second infection in 2023, adding PEM, dizziness and breathlessness. MRI showed subclinical myo-pericardial inflammation and…
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Bedbound for weeks with long COVID, now almost back to normal after Pemgarda
A mid-40s US man developed long COVID after a COVID-19 infection in August 2023, having had two earlier post-viral illnesses. He was bedbound for weeks with brain fog, head pressure, POTS, tinnitus, eye problems and suicidal episodes, and three…
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Long COVID with night-time suffocation, somewhat better after apheresis and candesartan
A 46-year-old woman with long COVID, POTS and MCAS said her blood pressure rose to 140/90-150/100 after COVID, with sudden night-time tachycardia and suffocation on beta blockers. Candesartan ended the suffocation and tachycardia and gave about 5% less…
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Heart failure, brain fog in long COVID, much better on heart drugs and low-histamine diet
With long COVID possibly dating to February 2020 and certainly since an untested flu-like illness in December 2024, Tundra 86863 has neck and back pain, night-time tremors, histamine reactions, brain fog and heart problems. Five days in hospital in July 2025…
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Bedridden for a month with long COVID, now much better on rest and antihistamines
This US man fell ill with long COVID around July 2022 and quit two jobs. He suppressed symptoms with antihistamines, pushed on at a physical job, crashed and was bedridden for a month, then recovered to about 75-80% by late 2023 on rest, Claritin, curcumin,…
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Long COVID, close to unable to work, now recovered after montelukast
Infected in 2020, they could not work full time for three months, needed two days in bed after grocery shopping and were close to being unable to work. Montelukast fixed the fatigue and POTS within hours, with bilastin, losartan, vaccination and continued…
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Long COVID with POTS and histamine intolerance, nearly back to normal
Caught Covid on 1 March 2024 and developed POTS, high blood pressure, tachycardia and, from late March, histamine intolerance. Extra evening metoprolol and losartan settled the cardiac symptoms, though a migraine with aphasia put them in hospital, and an…
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Long COVID with brain fog and neuropathy, much better after IVIG
Long COVID began in December with a heart rate of 133, blood pressure of 182/103 and repeated ER visits, followed by brain fog, anxiety, food intolerance, tinnitus, neuropathy and insomnia. Antihistamines and a low-histamine diet helped first; colostrum and…
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Housebound with long COVID, now somewhat better with HBOT and cetirizine
Badger 52177 caught COVID in March 2020 and became severe, housebound and mostly in bed, with fatigue, PEM, constant headaches and severe insomnia. About eight months in, hyperbaric oxygen therapy stopped the decline and they improved slowly to moderate,…
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Bed-bound for a year with long COVID, now somewhat better; low-histamine diet helped
Glade 41239 dates their illness to a vaccine shot: swollen injection site, closing throat, numbness and eye pressure, then an ER visit. They spent the first year bed- or house-bound with long COVID. Hydroxyzine, Benadryl, azelastine, losartan, metoprolol,…
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Bedbound with long COVID, unable to talk or read, now somewhat better; meds eased chest pain
Swan 33544 got long COVID from a COVID infection in early 2022 despite being triple vaccinated. They were bedbound about four months, unable to talk, read or lift their head, and improved around month nine to housebound. Private cardiology care found…
The newest 20 people with long COVID who credit ARBs.
ME/CFS · 6 people, few people
All 6 people
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ME/CFS severe and mostly bedridden with constant PEM, somewhat better with keto
Ocean 45310 developed ME/CFS gradually from 2014, symptoms first appearing one or two days a week. Strength training with a trainer and repeated hiking worsened them from mild to severe, leaving them mostly bedridden with constant PEM. A keto diet helped…
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Bedridden with ME/CFS, much better and back to part-time work after Abilify and exercise
Man in his fifties in Tennessee was diagnosed with CFS in May 2024; he was bedridden about two months and spent six months in a recliner, and did not work for nine months. He credited Abilify, naltrexone, Depakote, losartan and Vyvanse, a lean-protein…
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Bedbound or housebound with ME/CFS for about two years, much better after immunoadsorption
Wave 75121 fell ill in August 2021 after a second mRNA vaccination, and was bedbound or housebound for about two years with PEM, sore throat, freezing and brain fog. Low-carb diet and fasting, telmisartan, hyperbaric oxygen and, above all, immunoadsorption…
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ME/CFS had them lying down all day, now somewhat better on amlodipine and candesartan
After 15 years of unexplained illness, this user spent three more years finding that reduced brain blood flow from abnormal vasoconstriction (hypertensive-type OCHOS) was behind their symptoms. Vasodilators, finally a low-dose combination of amlodipine and…
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Bedbound with ME/CFS, now much better after pacing and antioxidants
Crest 67487, in Norway, had ME/CFS from around 2014 and was once severe and bedbound, a state they say came from long walks advised by their GP. They improved to moderate and later 'much better', crediting pacing, stress reduction and antioxidants, with…
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Choose the order: Oximatrine, Olmesartan, Famciclovir, Inosine Pranobex and Cycloferon.
Art Vandelay has CFS and has taken olmesartan within the Marshall Protocol for 8-9 years, at a dose he says was too low for the first 5-6 years. He says olmesartan reduced his brain fog, insomnia, inflammation, gut symptoms and pain, though he still gets…