Dr. Smith Does It Again: University Student Returns to Health by Pacing
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 3 years
- Published
- Mar 2015
Summary
Heather, a university student, became severely ill in the early-to-mid 1990s and was eventually lying in bed 23 hours a day. Under Dr David Smith's meticulous pacing protocol, which initially limited any activity to ten minutes, plus very low doses of trimipramine and Prozac, she recovered over about three years. She is described as fully recovered with a full social life, playing in a band and managing university, and the page promotes Dr Smith's website.
Read it in their words
healthrising.org — this page sells a treatment, program or service.
What they credit
Credits Pacing, Pacing and the energy envelope, SSRIs and antidepressants.
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