Pepcid and 1 month without an 'episode'
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 36 years
- Published
- Aug 2024
Summary
After 36 years with ME/CFS and a period of mold exposure and concussions, began a low-oxalate diet on top of an existing low-histamine diet, plus doctor-prescribed Pepcid and ketotifen fumarate. Describes feeling, before this, like dropping through layers of life. Says the oxalate diet seems to be helping the most, along with the Pepcid and ketotifen. No mention of full resolution or relapse; the thread gives no longer-term follow-up.
What they credit
Credits Elimination and ketogenic diets, H2 blockers (famotidine, cimetidine), Ketotifen / cromolyn, Low-histamine diet, Mold avoidance / CIRS protocol.
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