The Awakening - Bedbound to Housebound (1 Day a week)
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Aug 2020
Summary
Uses a precisely timed stack -- pregabalin and agmatine after a first sleep block, then modafinil and piracetam on waking -- to engineer roughly one functional day per week after five years bedbound. Says it lets him "talk to friends, use my laptop, get jobs done and physically move around the house," calling it "getting my life back temporarily." Only sustainable about once a week since the effect fades with repeated use, so it is a recurring partial reprieve, not a lasting recovery; he stresses "I am not recommending this."
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