Aggressive Rest Therapy: My Experience
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 3.5 years
- Published
- Sep 2016
Summary
Cheesus started Aggressive Rest Therapy about a year into a mild-to-moderate case and saw rapid improvement over roughly five months, then overdid it and drove himself into a horrendous two-year crash. By this post he was severe again and using low-dose naltrexone to recover, still calling Aggressive Rest Therapy the only thing he has ever felt was really healing despite the relapse.
What they credit
Credits Low-dose naltrexone, Pacing, Low-dose naltrexone, Pacing and the energy envelope.
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