Incredible recovery after 30 years of ME/CFS!
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 30 years
- Published
- Jun 2025
Summary
Took Rebecca Tolin's online mind-body course Be Your Own Medicine, including meditation and breathing techniques, starting April 2024 and continuing daily since. Had been ill with ME/CFS for 30 years, limited enough that even grocery shopping caused symptoms. By around seven months in she considered herself cured, and now hikes and cross-country skis with no symptoms. A two-year follow-up posted in the same thread says she remains vastly improved with generally good sleep, and she still does the meditation and breathing work and plans to continue for life.
What they credit
Credits Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Rebecca Tolin / Be Your Own Medicine.
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