How it went
Did it last?
- 4 of 9 said the benefit wore off.
- No one said they needed to keep it up to stay well.
Read from what people wrote. A story that ends without a follow-up counts as lasting, so treat these as minimums.
| Outcome described | Accounts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full recovery | 5 | 56% |
| Near-full | 2 | 22% |
| Substantial | 1 | 11% |
| Partial | 0 | 0% |
| Relapsed | 0 | 0% |
| No benefit | 1 | 11% |
Only 9 accounts. Treat these percentages as anecdotes, not rates.
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 1 | 100% | |
| Severe | 2 | 100% | |
| Very severe | 4 | 75% |
2 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
Who published these accounts
Right-hand number: share describing a full or near-full recovery. Pages that sell something, and advocacy sites, tend to publish only the successes.
All 9 accounts
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226: The Tinnitus Recovery Conversation No One Is Having - Dr. Marcia Dewey
Credits brain retraining. Marcia had long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Tinnitus focus, not ME/CFS or long covid directly.
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Esther
She recovered after listening to a Nicole Sachs podcast and then beginning expressive writing about her feelings, which she says produced an 80% drop in symptoms that same day, followed two weeks later by starting Dr. Howard Schubiner's Mind Body Program and…
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Impact of extended-course Paxlovid in established Long COVID (Case 4)
Case 4, a 51-year-old man about 6 months into Long COVID with fatigue, daily headaches, brain fog, mental exhaustion, PEM, racing heart, palpitations, tinnitus and visual/sensory disturbances, took a 15-day extended Paxlovid course in March 2023 alongside…
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I am back to myself – fun with family and friends, working in a full-time job that I love!
Took a three-day online Lightning Process course over Zoom, at a cost of £800, after her GP suspected ME/CFS and suggested she might need a wheelchair, and then did the course's mental exercises "around 100 times a day for the first four months." Her Long…
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I had to move in with my mother to get care, but now I define myself as recovered
Anne Mari did a three-day Lightning Process course in September 2018, which she says gave her "more stable energy and an inner confidence of recovery." She had been ill for about a year after contracting Q-fever in November 2017, diagnosed in April 2018 with…
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First time in remission with ketogenic diet
Adopted a strict ketogenic diet after 5.5 years of moderate ME/CFS with escalating weekly crashes: a 48-hour initial fast, under 25g net carbs a day, roughly 75/20/5 fat/protein/carb macros, electrolyte and baking-soda supplementation, and blood monitoring…
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Success treating multiple infections with Chlorine Dioxide
Followed Kerri Rivera's MMS (chlorine dioxide) protocol for 4.5 months, combined with a raw vegan diet and daily castor oil packs, for CFS/ME diagnosed 15 years earlier and later found to involve Lyme, bartonella, babesia, EBV, mycoplasma and mold. Had been…
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making a PRObiotic chart -- Bifido spp only!!
Bifidobacterium infantis 35624: taken as the Align probiotic brand, starting at one capsule daily for two weeks and then increasing to two capsules daily. She has ME/CFS with symptoms including joint pain, tinnitus and brain fog. The first two weeks produced…
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Paul Garner's Story
He credits a mind-body approach, working with an unnamed practitioner who had himself recovered from ME/CFS, using relaxation techniques and reinterpreting his symptoms as a stress response, alongside a gradual return to exercise from gentle activity up to…