How fast does improvement take on Immunoglobulin?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Nov 2019
Summary
On Hizentra subcutaneous immunoglobulin, "saw improvements... in the first couple of months" and says it "definitely helped me" across multiple symptoms, and credits it with preventing further deterioration. Still describes her overall status as "severe/very severe" at the time of posting, so frames the treatment as stabilizing rather than curative - a plateau rather than a return toward health.
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