Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 9 months
- Published
- Jun 2020
Summary
Thomas Overvik, a medical student, attended a three-day Lightning Process course in London in summer 2011 after about nine months of illness that began roughly eight months into medical school in autumn 2010, bringing repeated infections, headaches, dizziness, fever, nausea and exhaustion that left him mostly confined to bed, sofa or doctors' offices and barely able to drag himself to lectures. Multiple specialists, tests and a phone consultation described as "conversation therapy," plus other alternative therapies, had produced no improvement beforehand. He writes that since his recovery he completed his medical studies within the standard timeframe and has worked full-time as a doctor, including 19-hour night shifts, "without any more fatigue than my colleagues." No relapse is mentioned; he credits lasting changes in boundary-setting, reduced perfectionism and greater emotional awareness, and the story gives no further follow-up beyond this account of sustained full-time work.
Read it in their words
recoverynorway.org — a recovery advocacy site.
What they credit
Credits Lightning Process, PDE5 inhibitors (sildenafil, tadalafil).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Gut problems, Headaches & migraine, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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