Dr. Thomas Levy -- How COVID Helped Me Regain Good Health
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 20+y
- Published
- Feb 2022
Summary
Took low-dose hydrocortisone at 20mg/day for over 20 years of ME/CFS, raising it to 30-35mg/day during a COVID infection, and added liposome-encapsulated vitamin C at 3-10g/day after reading a book pairing the two. Describes moving from roughly 4% function at his worst to 20-25% on hydrocortisone alone, then to about 75% once graded exercise was added, and credits the higher-dose combination through COVID with clearing a chronic runny nose and cough and improving sleep and energy. He now estimates around 50-60% function in the aftermath, so the account describes a durable but partial, decades-long management regimen rather than a cure, and he frames his claims cautiously ("I consider," "I would encourage") rather than as fact for others.
What they credit
Credits Graded exercise, Hormones & thyroid, Supplements, Graded exercise / graded activity, Hydrocortisone / cortisol.
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