Long COVID, now recovered after dry fasting
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 3 years
- Last post
- Apr 2025
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
r/covidlonghaulers
In context ↗ - Now: Recovered
i had to earn my cure...through dry fasting.
In context ↗
Read from 1 of their posts and comments; links to the one this page draws on
Summary
Posting in a long-COVID community, this user said that after three years of trying everything under the sun, dry fasting was what worked for them, describing it as a cure they had to earn. They called it about the only thing they had seen work. No symptoms, level of function, doses or other treatments were described.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- dry fasting · Helped a lot
i had to earn my cure...through dry fasting. this is what worked for me
In context ↗
Approaches: Diet
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | After |
|---|---|---|
| onset | onset of long-COVID illness3 years of trialing everything under the sunIn context ↗ | |
| 2025-04-20 | credits dry fasting with a curei had to earn my cure...through dry fasting.In context ↗ | Dry fasting |
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