Significant Improvement Story -- Focus on Thiamine Deficiency
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- 9 years
- Published
- Jul 2013
Summary
Daily thiamine injections reportedly resolved nine years of ME/CFS that the patient attributed to "a vitamin deficiency caused by a metabolic error," leaving them "leading a normal life today." This account was reposted secondhand by another member quoting an outside source, with no name, dose, or timeline given, and no durability follow-up -- a strong claim but thin, low-provenance detail.
What they credit
Credits Supplements, Thiamine / benfotiamine, Vitamin D and sun exposure.
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