Vasopressin/ADH ... My Story
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 4 years
- Published
- Jun 2012
Summary
Added low-dose vasopressin (half pill twice daily) on top of thyroid medication, cortisol, aldosterone, testosterone and DHEA. Says he stopped over-urinating (previously about twice the volume he drank), fatigue improved, and his bench press rose sharply (from 175 lbs to 395 lbs). He calls himself "cured," though other posters in the thread push back on that word since the gains depend on staying on the medications, and he later notes that running out of the medication causes him to deteriorate again.
What they credit
Credits Hormones & thyroid, Hydrocortisone / cortisol, Sex hormones (progesterone, estrogen, HCG), Testosterone, Thyroid (T3, T4, NDT).
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