Pepcid and 1 month without an 'episode'
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 13 years
- Published
- Aug 2024
Summary
Started taking Pepcid (famotidine) for PEM, IBS and POTS-type episodes and initially went a full month without an episode for the first time in years. Had been ill about 13 years, with roughly 80% of episodes lasting two to three days and some up to two weeks. Over following weeks added Zantac, Alka-Seltzer, kratom, coffee, and an itraconazole-with-Nasoneb-diffuser stack, plus albuterol and Alvesco. By late September said 'for the first time in 13 years I have hope' after a good day, but soon after crashed with PEM following a productive day, so gains were only partial with no stable outcome reported by thread's end.
What they credit
Credits Antifungals, H2 blockers (famotidine, cimetidine).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Gut problems, POTS & dysautonomia, Post-exertional malaise.
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