Stages of Recovery - personal experience
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- May 2010
Summary
Followed Dr Myhill's standard protocol (B3, B12, magnesium, CoQ10, 15g/day L-glutamine, 10g/day BCAAs, 1g/day malic acid) starting Nov/Dec 2007, combined with an elimination diet of mainly white rice and chicken, FIR sauna detox, and Buteyko breathing. Went from being largely housebound, where even a 10-minute drive caused all-day exhaustion, to managing 6-hour journeys, socializing and working without crashing after -- a near-full recovery he calls "very much in recovery," which had held for about 2.5 years by the time of posting though he still paces carefully and stays on supplements. He admits he can't isolate which single element mattered, framing it as the combination that "created the conditions for healing."
What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Diet, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, CoQ10 / ubiquinol, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Hyperthermia and sauna, Selenium, iodine, minerals.
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