Deanna Gets Better the Lerner Way: A Valcyte ME/CFS Success Story
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Apr 2015
Summary
Deanna was a physically fit 39-year-old when progressive ME/CFS left her mostly homebound, sleeping 12-15 hours a day and needing to crawl up stairs. Under Dr Martin Lerner she used Valcyte with stress reduction, pacing and steroids, and is described as fully recovered, back to full-time work and normal exercise. The page notes an important caveat: the two times she went off the protocol she immediately became sick again.
What they credit
Credits Antivirals, Other prescription drugs, Pacing, Trauma & somatic work, Pacing and the energy envelope, Valcyte / valganciclovir.
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