How it went
Did it last?
- 19 of 119 said the benefit wore off.
- 9 of 119 needed to keep doing it 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 | 54 | 45% |
| Near-full | 23 | 19% |
| Substantial | 28 | 24% |
| Partial | 12 | 10% |
| Relapsed | 0 | 0% |
| No benefit | 2 | 2% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | 1 | 0% | |
| Moderate | 16 | 62% | |
| Severe | 60 | 72% | |
| Very severe | 25 | 68% |
17 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
Who published these accounts
35% of these accounts are on pages that sell this treatment or a program around it. Those pages publish their successes; compare the independent row.
How often it comes up
Posts that mention Meditation, yoga, breathwork, per 1,000 posts each year. Hover a point for the count.
Show as a table
| Year | Posts mentioning it | All posts | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | 184 | 59.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | 682 | 14.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | 704 | 7.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | 1,491 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,708 | 13.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | 2,352 | 11.5 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,158 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 | 12.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | 3,110 | 6.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | 2,201 | 7.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,075 | 12.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | 2,581 | 5.4 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1,867 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | 1,166 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,000 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1,237 | 5.7 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,019 | 17.7 |
| 2026 (so far) | 15 | 840 | 17.9 |
Posts in the forum threads we archived, 26,806 in all, counted per year. A mention means the post names the treatment, not that the writer took it. These threads all contain a recovery story, so they show what those communities discussed, not everyone with ME/CFS or long COVID. All trends
All 119 accounts
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Jonathan Groves' Story
Jonathan practiced Ekadashi Upavasa fasting (fasting on the 11th lunar day) combined with autophagy principles, an elimination diet cutting out all processed food, caffeine, sugar and alcohol, the Silva Method, meditation, breathwork, affirmations and…
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Some thoughts on exercise and long covid
Credits trauma and somatic work and somatic meditation. Ariel was ill 2y with severe long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Now runs faster than before the illness.
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William Groves' Recovery Story
Followed the Gupta Program (joined 2023), read Dan Neuffer's book "CFS Unravelled" and Joseph Murphy's "The Power of the Unconscious Mind," got nutrition counseling through the Optimum Health Clinic, and combined this with pacing, meditation, self-hypnosis,…
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Volker Stahl's Recovery Story
Managed long COVID mainly through pacing with a heart rate monitor, gentle yoga and light cycling, unspecified supplements, a COVID booster vaccination, and a psychological reframing approach inspired by Professor Paul Garner's published recovery account. He…
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148: The Long Covid Recovery Path (Almost) No One Talks About - Suzy Bolt's Story
Credits yoga and brain retraining. Suzy had long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Known long-covid yoga/recovery advocate.
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Karen Wright's Story
Karen started with a low-histamine diet that brought overnight improvement, then moved to a broader anti-inflammatory diet, alongside pacing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy through the NHS Long COVID service, breathwork, meditation, yoga, counselling and…
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Russ Seigenberg's Recovery Story
Used self-directed pacing, graduated aerobic exercise (walk/jog intervals), diet changes, meditation, yoga and faith rather than any named program or drug. He crashed with post-viral fatigue/ME/CFS at 25 after a bout of mono/EBV, at his worst spending much…
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Incredible recovery after 30 years of ME/CFS!
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…
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Hope Rooted in Biology: What Helped Us Recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid
Credits brain retraining and meditation. Rachel was ill ~1 year (Dec 2020-summer 2021) with long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Now runs marathons and ultramarathons.
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Hope Rooted in Biology: What Helped Us Recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid
Credits Gupta Program, somatic and meditation. Heather was ill 35+ years with moderate ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Recovered 5+ yrs; works two jobs.
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Hope Rooted in Biology: What Helped Us Recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid
Credits restorative yoga and Optimum Health Clinic. Lisa was ill 40+ years total (3 recent bedbound) with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Fluctuating course over decades.
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Hope Rooted in Biology: What Helped Us Recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid
Credits CFS Health program, yoga nidra and breathwork. Jill was ill 4.5 years with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Comorbid POTS.
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Hope Rooted in Biology: What Helped Us Recover from ME/CFS and Long Covid
Credits pacing, somatic tracking and yoga. Kate was ill 13 years with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Roundup post profiling 20 people; entry 1 of 20.
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A New Paradigm for Healing
Credits trauma and somatic work, EMDR and somatic. Harry Boby was ill 4y with severe long COVID and reports a substantial improvement. Relapsed with brainstem pain after a meditation retreat.
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Long Covid Healing Resources
Followed a 10-point Mayo Clinic-informed protocol: a TruVaga vagus-nerve-stimulation device for 2 minutes three times a day, guanfacine at 0.5mg twice daily (with room to increase to 1mg twice daily), L-arginine 2000mg twice daily, vitamin C 500mg twice…
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Recovered from ME/CFS after 30 years
She credits Rebecca Tolin's online mind-body course Be Your Own Medicine, taken over about six months at age 70, teaching calming breath work, the physiological sigh, box breathing and Wim Hof breathing alongside emotional and somatic work. Crucially she had…
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Dan Neuffer's Story
Dan developed his own ANS Rewire nervous-system-retraining program and used gut healing, dietary changes, supplements, meditation and pacing as part of a personalized recovery plan, detailed in his book CFS Unravelled. He was ill with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia…
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Overcoming Long Covid: Sue's Story
Sue's approach centered on daily Yoga Nidra practice, breathwork classes, and a community program called Rest Repair Recover built around gentle structure, rest and nervous system care, alongside lifestyle changes like setting boundaries and no longer…
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Chronic Pain Success Story - Andrea's Journey Back to Health
Credits brain retraining, meditation and diet. Andrea was ill 6y with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Content confirms ME/CFS; 15% to 100%.
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Ela's Success Recovering from Long-Term Fibromyalgia and CFS
Credits brain retraining and meditation. Ela was ill 20y with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Norway, age 47; relapsed at 9mo, recovered by 18mo.
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List of ME/CFS Recovery and Improvement Stories (page 14 discussion)
ixikd2025 credited a broad, kitchen-sink regimen spanning stimulant, mitochondrial, antihistamine/MCAS, and lifestyle interventions (meditation, running, acupuncture) for significant improvement. With so many concurrent changes, no single component could be…
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Jackie Baxter's Story
Credits breathing retraining and pacing. Jackie was ill 3y with severe long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Runs The Long Covid Podcast; cold-water swimming.
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Emily Mure's Success Story
Credits brain retraining. Emily had long COVID and reports a substantial improvement. Continued healing via retraining and meditation.
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How Yoga Therapy Has Helped Me During Recovery
Credits yoga. Nicole had long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Yoga as a recovery tool.
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Jennifer's Story
Jennifer followed an anti-inflammatory diet based on Andrew Weil and Patrick Holford's principles, alongside regular massage therapy, acupuncture, deep relaxation and meditation practices, and a custom-designed graded walk-training program, after early…
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Shaun Moran's Recovery Story
Tried an extensive list of alternative treatments over the years - IV vitamin C, ozone therapy, acupuncture, cupping, EFT, homeopathy, matrix re-imprinting, amygdala retraining, qigong, restrictive diets, chiropractic and osteopathic care, hypnotherapy,…
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My long covid recovery recap: the timeline and tools
Ariel Conn's recovery centered on mind-body approaches: Claritin as one of only two things that helped in her first 18 months, then somatic meditations, Nicole Sachs' JournalSpeak journaling method starting December 2021, somatic and Internal Family Systems…
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The Healing Dudes: Getting out of Long Covid and Chronic Lyme together
Credits nervous system, meditation and community. Joe was ill 4-5yr Lyme then LC relapse with long COVID and reports a partial improvement. Relapsed into long covid after Lyme recovery.
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The Healing Dudes: Getting out of Long Covid and Chronic Lyme together
Credits nervous system, meditation and community. Josh was ill 17 years with severe long COVID and reports a partial improvement. Chronic Lyme primary; "incredible progress," not cure.
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Our brains are physical and they play a big part in how we react to viruses and diseases
Trained in and credits MindBody Reconnect, developed by its founder Clare Caldwell, who also treated Alice personally, as a successor to Mickel Therapy, after acupuncture, herbal medicine, vitamins and meditation had not helped. She had ME/CFS symptoms for…
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Leon Williams
Leon Williams recovered using a mind-body/neuroplasticity approach rooted in Dr. John Sarno's Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) framework, practicing somatic tracking meditation, expressive writing, breathwork and general meditation, with gardening as a…
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Jennifer
Jennifer combined three weeks of lymphatic drainage physiotherapy (started June 2022) with a mind-body/nervous-system retraining approach drawn from Alan Gordon's book The Way Out, the Curable app, Annemarieke Fleming's Dutch fatigue book Je vermoeidheid te…
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Michelle
Michelle saw more than ten specialists and tried extensive medical treatment: beta blockers, the migraine drug Ubrelvy, meclizine for dizziness, two rounds of prednisone, B12 shots for neuropathy, and Paxlovid taken months after her initial infection, plus…
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Helen
Helen recovered through Mickel Therapy -- weekly hour-long sessions by Skype starting in September 2020 -- alongside the Curable app, meditation, breathwork, yoga, Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE), and daily gratitude-diary journaling; no drugs or…
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: one woman's story of recovery
Credits CBT or psychological work, diet, somatic and breathwork. Anaya was ill 2.5y with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Mindset shift and somatic breathwork; ran 42km ultra days later.
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Jason's Eclectic Mix of Treatments Returns Him to Near Normal Health
Jason Boyce fell ill in the early 2000s with what he believes was a flu or EBV infection and spent sixteen years bedbound for days after exertion and unable to play with his kids. He assembled an eclectic mix of treatments, crediting nebulised hydrogen…
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Matt Sibert
Matt Sibert credits reading Dr. John Sarno's books The Divided Mind and The Mindbody Prescription, then practicing somatic tracking, somatic meditations, expressive writing/journaling, breathing exercises and general meditation, after an earlier…
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Robyn Dale
Robyn's treatment combined short courses of propranolol, zopiclone and diazepam early on with medium-term amitriptyline for insomnia, mood and muscle spasms, alongside daily walking, yoga, meditation and graded activity. She crashed severely in December 2021…
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Robyn Dale
Robyn was prescribed short-term propranolol for heart arrhythmia and palpitations, at doses that were increased despite her objections, short-term zopiclone and diazepam to help her rest, and medium-term amitriptyline for insomnia, mood, and to stop cluster…
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Bedridden for 1.5 years and still getting worse - IVIG only hope
Howard, exclusively bed-bound since 2015 with post-exertional malaise since 2009, said eight hours a day of outdoor light since the previous November, aimed at raising vitamin D, brought a recent sudden though gradual improvement, alongside tart cherry…
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Shannon Sims
She credits her recovery to mind-body practices including meditation, guided imagery, expressive writing, biofeedback, and nature exposure, with no drug, supplement, or named branded program cited on the page. She became ill in March 2020 with a two-week…
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Amy Engkjer
She combined a concussion protocol (limiting phone use and conversation), neurofeedback, a five-hour NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) session, EMDR, physical therapy, shiatsu, daily cold showers, an anti-inflammatory diet, meditation, and journaling,…
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Minja
After discovering recovery narratives on the Recovery Norway website, she used a self-directed regimen of breathing exercises with longer exhales than inhales, mindfulness (watching calming videos, counting colors in the room), progressive relaxation via…
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After one year and 10 days I realized that I was done with COVID! The mind-body connection was the final piece in my healing
Combined neurofeedback, a concussion protocol, a five-hour session with an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner, EMDR, shiatsu, meditation and journaling as part of a broader mind-body approach to her illness. She had more than 18 Long COVID…
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My brain maintained my condition by pondering questions such as: 'How am I doing today, which symptoms are the hardest, and consequently; what will I be doing today?'
Minja's recovery centred on gradual "baby steps" increases in activity combined with mindfulness, breathing exercises and progressive relaxation (drawing on teacher Rick Hanson), Brené Brown's podcast "Unlocking Us," and therapy she had previously used for…
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I had long Covid. I have fully recovered
In May, Rachel Whitfield did a three-day Lightning Process training course for long COVID that began with a mild case testing positive in December, followed by boom-bust cycles of "crippling fatigue, covid toes, covid strangle throat, burning back, anxiety,…
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Rachel Whitfield
She used rest, pacing via the spoon-theory method of small weekly activity increases, sleep aids followed by mindfulness-based sleep acceptance, meditation, a hot tub, a COVID-recovery yoga group, and breathing-retraining physiotherapy with a practitioner…
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Some Patients Are Reporting Recovery from Long COVID (Sherri)
Sherri Klipowicz used a plant-heavy, low-gluten, low-dairy diet, restorative yoga, magnesium and glutathione supplements, and ozone therapy, and worked with an insomnia specialist to fix her sleep. She had been sick with Long COVID since March 2020, and…
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Some Patients Are Reporting Recovery from Long COVID
Lana Lynch's Long COVID symptoms improved after her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in May, the only treatment named in the article. Before that she had months of fatigue and daily headaches and had to carefully ration her exertion.…
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Breathing Pattern Disorder
Credits breathing retraining. Caroline was ill 12mo with severe long COVID and reports a partial improvement. ENO Breathe programme; ongoing management still needed.
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Oda Shares Her POTS and ME/CFS Recovery After 10 Years Using ANS REWIRE
Oda's recovery combined daily thyroxine for diagnosed Hashimoto's hypothyroidism with the ANS REWIRE program (daily meditation and "postural rewiring" videos starting July 2017), gentle home yoga via the Yoga Studio app, one session of Thomas Hanna-method…
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From 5 minute walks to a marathon comeback: Chris' CFS recovery story
Credits diet, meditation and cold water. Chris was ill 4y with moderate ME/CFS and reports a substantial improvement. Teacher, 30% functional; Ayurvedic diet, cold water; ran a marathon.
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My whole world and understanding of things had been turned upside down, in the best way possible
Alex did a three-day home-visit Lightning Process course with practitioner Kathy Kent, based on Phil Parker's method, after roughly three years of ME/CFS that left him room-bound for about a year, able to reach the bathroom only once a day at his worst, and…
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Illustrated Remission, Energy & End of Insomnia - Returned to Running
Built a daily regimen of iron supplements twice a day, a green drink with apple cider vinegar, vitamin D at 10,000 IU, grass-fed beef liver tablets, 30 minutes of daily meditation and nightly yoga, later adding a reverse-osmosis water filter. Had been…
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Adrienne Dellwo Shares Her Fibromyalgia Remission Story
Adrienne Dellwo's regimen included low-dose naltrexone at 3mg (compounded, versus a standard 30mg dose per the article), plus rhodiola rosea, L-theanine, vitamin B and D, a custom herbal blend and acupuncture from her rheumatologist, meditation, yoga, a…
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I now had the knowledge to understand, the will to accept, and the tools to adjust
Recovered via a four-day treatment programme in Fitjar, Norway in February 2018, run by psychiatrist Bjarte Stubhaug together with mindfulness instructor Hanne Suorza, covering education about ME, acceptance techniques, sleep and nutrition guidance, gentle…
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How I recovered from M E Hell
Started the ANS ReWire neural-retraining program at the end of August 2018, alongside osteopathy for pain and a daily 45-minute Qigong practice. Had roughly a decade of severe ME/CFS, at the lowest point virtually unable to walk, talk or do much of anything,…
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Reverse therapy is helping me a lot
After several years of mild-to-moderate ME/CFS partly triggered by probiotic use, did two sessions of "Reverse Therapy" (a meditative practice of "talking to" the body) over six weeks. Reports "feeling the best I have since the beginning of my cfs journey,"…
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Never, never give up hope that you can make progress towards your goal of recovery
Credits the Lightning Process, which he took in 2005 after eight years of illness and many prior approaches including acupuncture, juicing, meditation and yoga, nutritionist-prescribed supplements, herbal medicine, naturopathy, Chinese herbs, functional…
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3 Decades of ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, MCS, Lyme End Fast
Claudia treated chronic Lyme disease from 2012-2015 with three years of low-dose Byron White herbal protocols plus a strict elimination diet, then in 2019 did the three-month ANS REWIRE nervous-system retraining program alongside naturopath adjustments that…
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I was 13 years, and had no energy at all, but now I live my life the way I want to
Recovered through a structured activity-management programme run by a specialist children's CFS/ME service, pairing bursts of exertion with mandatory rest periods, plus sleep medication and a very gradual, multi-year return to schooling that began with ten…
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Sirin Gnadeberg Shares How She Cured Her ME/CFS and POTS
Sirin Gnadeberg added salt to her drinking water starting in April 2016, which significantly improved her POTS symptoms, then took 16 weeks of antibiotics after a Lyme specialist found elevated antibodies to Bartonella, Chlamydia and Mycoplasma (despite…
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My message to all ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and POTS sufferers is 'don't lose hope!'
Recovered using ANS REWIRE, a method he developed himself combining brain-retraining techniques, DEEP mindfulness meditation, nutrition and physiological and lifestyle changes to calm and retrain the autonomic nervous system, working with an integrative…
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It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I've been my own coach all the way
Torill Sorkmo credits a self-designed recovery approach combining meditation, mindfulness, visualisation and a focus on positive ("endorphin") thinking, developed after seeing a Gestalt therapist and a psychologist and after Dr Paul Kavli in Oslo diagnosed…
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The symptoms often made me feel stressed and worried, as I saw them as a sign that something was wrong with my body
An anonymous woman in her 30s credits a Lightning Process course with Live Landmark, taken after reading one of Landmark's books, following years of worsening exercise-triggered symptoms that eventually cut her functioning by around half; she avoided a…
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If I had believed all the negative things I read on the net, I would not have recovered
Lea attended a three-day Lightning Process course run by Live Landmark after roughly a year of illness that included acupuncture, naprapathy, medical yoga and cutting out gluten and sugar, none of which had helped. Before the course she was diagnosed with…
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I tricked my body into believing I would get well
She had weekly cognitive therapy and mindfulness sessions with psychologist Carina Poulsen, alongside a self-directed graded walking-then-jogging program, nightly gratitude journaling and sessions with a psychomotor physiotherapist. She had been ill for…
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Step by step I took my life back. My life's big turnaround, I call it
She attended a four-day intensive program at what was then called Frihamnsenteret, now the Clinic for Stress Medicine, near Bergen, covering stress-system education, group and individual therapy, mindfulness and physical activity, and continued mindfulness…
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For me it was about realising that the mind and body is connected, and learn that I could influence my health through cognitive tools
Recovered through a three-day Lightning Process course, learning "cognitive tools" that he says had "an immediate effect" on his physical and mental health, after care from public and private clinics and multiple doctors and hospital specialists had not…
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From ME to MMA
Recovered after a stay at the AiR Rauland rehabilitation centre, which taught mindfulness, energy-pacing (sorting activities into "green" and "yellow" rest zones) and structured daily routines, following a second severe relapse; before that she had seen a…
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My Brain Retraining Story
She practiced the Gupta Programme's limbic retraining for several months, including daily 20-minute breathing meditation, NLP-style hand motions, and "soften and flow" visualization. She had been severely ill with ME/CFS for about six years, housebound and…
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The Man and the Map: Dan Moricoli on His Continuing Recovery
A Phoenix Rising member (fT3g0) highlighted Dan Moricoli's published recovery story crediting a personal exercise-and-yoga approach distinct from standard graded exercise therapy. The underlying Health Rising article was not separately fetched, so duration…
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ANS Rewire Program Works For Bed Bound 11 Year ME/CFS/FM Patient
Peter, a businessman, developed ME/CFS and fibromyalgia after stress and trauma, becoming mostly bedbound for 11 years and running up significant debt on other treatments. He enrolled in Dan Neuffer's paid ANS Rewire course, a mind-body program of…
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Easy Does It For Nathalie: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Improvement Story
Tried Low Dose Naltrexone (immediate but partial relief from stiffness), a six-week high-dose course of Famvir that gave no benefit, and three years on Valcyte (valganciclovir), which brought her "back to life" out of a bedridden state within weeks but left…
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M.E., My Mold, and I: A Story of ME/CFS and Toxic Mold
Over nearly seven years of ME/CFS beginning in late summer 2010, she tried pacing with a heart-rate monitor and many supplements, including herbal antivirals, for about a year, then added neurotransmitter support (dopamine, GABA), an ATP Fuel supplement,…
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Amy's Story - from Athletic Go-Getter to Homebound and Back Up Again
Amy was an athletic runner working 60-hour weeks whose progressive fatigue, triggered by fevers after long runs, left her mostly home- and bed-bound and unable to work within a year. Dr Lerner treated her with Valcyte and she improved to near-normal daily…
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The Flu That Never Ends Finally Does for Heather
After four years of cognitive trouble, digestive problems, body aches and severe fatigue that diet, yoga, acupuncture, chelation and blood irradiation had not touched, Heather was prescribed Valtrex by Dr. Lerner in 2010. By 2012 she reported being fully…
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Emotional Healing Key for Fibromyalgia Patient
Tried Bach Flower Remedies herself and says she liked how they felt, describing them as very gentle. Illness duration and severity are not detailed. Says in her own words that the Bach remedies didn't address her physical symptoms, and that she found…
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Retraining Puts Linda on the Path to Recovery
Linda, a business owner, became mostly homebound with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities, with crushing fatigue, severe chemical and electromagnetic sensitivity and widespread pain. She credits about 95% recovery to amygdala-retraining…
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Diet makes the biggest difference for Alexandra
Combined Dr. Teitelbaum's protocol and adrenal/thyroid hormone supplementation with a major diet change away from a long-time low-fat diet, plus stress reduction and mindfulness work on stress-inducing thoughts. Had been ill with ME/CFS for seven years after…
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Maureen's gradual onset - and her gradual recovery
Maureen developed ME/CFS at 35, waking one day unable to get out of bed with profound exhaustion, followed by recurring exhaustion, rashes, painful joints, constant colds and insomnia. She used Dr Teitelbaum's integrated protocol of diet, vitamins, herbs and…
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Hitting Rock Bottom Leads To Turnaround for Dan
Dan developed ME/CFS after a chickenpox vaccination during an intensely stressful period, and over six and a half mostly homebound years suffered extreme fatigue, bouts of fever, cardiac issues and brain fog. He attributes his recovery to addressing…
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From hospitalization to recovery: Leah's Dr. Lerner ME/CFS Recovery Story
Used antiviral treatment under Dr. Lerner's approach, combined with stress reduction through yoga and careful pacing, after an illness severe enough to require hospitalization. Specific drug names, doses and illness duration are not given in the visible…
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From the Bedside to the Outdoors Green Girl Goes Green Again
Combined nutrition changes, pacing, supplements and meditation for ME/CFS. Illness duration and specific supplement details are not given in the excerpt, though the title implies she was largely confined to bed beforehand. Says staying focused on hope for…
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From the Bedside to the Outdoors: Green Girl Goes Green Again
An outdoorsy environmental scientist who blogs as Green Girl contracted Ross River virus in 2009 and relapsed severely in 2010, becoming mostly bedbound with fatigue and brain fog so severe she could only read small amounts. She used pacing, graded exercise,…
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Recovery Story Survey Suggests Some Commonalities
Combined yoga breathing exercises, dietary changes and other selectively chosen natural approaches with a scientific basis, for ME/CFS, while explicitly rejecting the Lightning Process as an option. Illness duration and severity are not detailed in this…
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Yoga Slowly Coaxes Fiona Back to Health
Used a yoga practice combined with a deliberate mindset shift, choosing, in her words, to be ill and happy rather than ill and unhappy. Specific yoga style, frequency and illness duration are not detailed in the excerpt. Says this state of mind got her out…
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Yoga Slowly Coaxes Fiona Back to Health
Fiona, a PR executive, developed ME/CFS in the early 1990s after stress, poor diet and flu, and by 1992 was wheelchair-bound, too tired to hold a conversation and having panic attacks. Gentle yoga focused on relaxation and breathing, meditation and a…
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Breathe Deep: Dan Moricoli on Yoga and Recovering From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Gentle yoga folded into a broader rehabilitation program of pacing and heart-rate-based exercise, later developed into a regular practice of two Hatha classes a week combined with Kundalini yoga and meditation. His illness began suddenly and severely, with…
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Stinging Her Way Back to Health
Nancy developed chronic fatigue syndrome in 1994 and experienced a relapse along the way. She credits bee venom therapy, which she says is not a cure but helped her get her life back, together with vitamin B12, hypnotherapy, guided meditation and…
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Multidimensional program is the ticket for Michelle
Combined diet changes, supplements and mindfulness practices into a multidimensional program for ME/CFS. Specific supplement names, doses and illness duration are not given in the visible excerpt. The site frames diet as doing huge amounts for some forms of…
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Multidimensional program is the ticket for Michelle
Tai chi and qigong practice, described as vital for immune function, balance and heart functioning, was one element of a long-term multidimensional program that also included an elimination diet (no dairy, most grains, fermented foods, alcohol, MSG, sugar or…
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Dan Moricoli - On the Path - and Recovering From ME/CFS
Started a heart-rate-monitored graded exercise and pacing program in 2008, beginning with two 5-minute walks every other day with 10-20 minute rest periods, alongside a sleep specialist referral that improved sleep from 2-4 hours to 5 hours nightly, a strict…
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Dr. Smith Does It Again: University Student Returns to Health by Pacing
Tried Dr. Smith's strict energy-limiting pacing protocol himself for ME/CFS but acknowledged finding it difficult to follow consistently. Illness duration and severity are not detailed in this post. Separately notes that meditation was helpful for him. No…
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Dr. Smith Does It Again: University Student Returns to Health by Pacing
Built a 21-year coping strategy around working from home with frequent lying-down breaks, crediting Gupta's Amygdala Retraining program, the Art of Living meditation technique, and whey protein supplementation with significant quality-of-life improvements.…
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From hospitalization to recovery: Leah's Dr. Lerner ME/CFS Recovery Story
Leah, mostly bedbound and repeatedly hospitalized (weight fell from 115 to 89 lbs) after onset in 1996, was put on Valtrex by Dr. Lerner and recovered to near-normal function for seven years before relapsing and needing a second course. On the second course…
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On the Path: Dan Moricoli's Remarkable Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Recovery Story
Dan Moricoli, 71 at the time, had been severely ill since May 2006, at his worst largely housebound with myoclonic seizures, speech difficulty and comatose-like crashes lasting hours. He credits a carefully graded, heart-rate-based exercise program built…
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Going Under the Knife Does It
Diane had sinus surgery, along with herbs, nutritional supplements, hormone supplements, and "serious meditation"; IVIG was also tried but had no effect. None of these interventions are given specific names, doses, or durations. She fell ill in her mid-30s…
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Thirteen years after occupational exposure - Doug is well
Doug developed ME/CFS after occupational exposure to a waterlogged building around 1996-2000, with constant flu-like illness, fever, joint pain and IBS, relapsing three or four times a year during a long partial-recovery phase. Over about thirteen years he…
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How Yoga Can Change Your Life
Index entry credits Celandine with the Perrin Technique (lymphatic drainage massage) for ME/CFS improvement, in the same Daily Mail piece as Sally's yoga story. The page was blocked when fetched, so no further detail on duration of illness, severity, or…
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How Yoga Can Change Your Life
Index entry credits Sally with yoga practice for ME/CFS improvement from a moderate-to-severe baseline. The Daily Mail page was blocked when fetched, so no further detail on duration of illness or durability beyond the index claim is available.
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Come with M.E. on a journey: Update on Ivabradine for POTs (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)
Ivabradine, dose not stated, used for several months by the time of this update; she had been ill with POTS-type symptoms since August 2009, about 5 years by this post, with moderate functional limitation. Initial side effects of malaise and heaviness…
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Mind-body Work and Alternative Treatments Kisses 15 Years of ME/CFS Good-Bye
The unnamed subject first fell ill after measles at age 12 and was severely disabled by 1979, losing his balance, unable to stand, with headaches and muscle pain, eventually working part-time before retiring at 50. Over 15 years he pursued self-hypnosis,…
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The Woman Who Healed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Naturally
Edie used a wide-ranging natural protocol: topical arnica gel, papaya and devil's claw for inflammation, Cell Food (a liquid oxygen supplement), homeopathic thyroid, adrenal, hypothalamus and pituitary remedies, spirulina, herbal melatonin and 5-HTP for…
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Taiji Qigong Chronic Fatigue - Student Experience
Baduanjin Qigong: daily practice of the Eight Pieces of Brocade sequence, plus the Five Animals sequence and visualization on rest days, begun after a TCM doctor first prescribed simple qigong breathing exercises. She had been diagnosed with CFS in 2009,…
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How I yoga for ME/CFS
Gentle, restorative yoga done at home from books, DVDs, and podcasts, starting with about 10 minutes daily of simple poses and building over two years to 25-30 minutes most mornings, sometimes repeated later in the day. She had completely crashed with ME/CFS…
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My Story - Dan Neuffer's ME/CFS Fibromyalgia POTS Recovery
Dan Neuffer's page gives only general categories of treatment rather than specific drugs or doses: he says he "healed my gut and changed my diet" under a doctor's guidance, used unnamed supplements to support metabolism, detoxification and oxidative stress,…
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What Treatments Have Cured People?
Doug, misdiagnosed for 7 of his 11 sick years before Chlamydia pneumoniae and EBV were identified, took inosine alone for a couple of short stretches with limited effect, then added DMAE about 1.5 years before posting; he described the fog lifting and…
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Just passed six months on the Gupta programme
He followed the Gupta Programme (amygdala retraining) for four of a planned six months, doing daily meditation and the "Stop-Stop-Stop" technique alongside an acting class and other activities. He describes his ME/CFS as relatively mild, following a period…
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Thirteen years after occupational exposure - Doug is well
Combined targeted supplements, dietary changes, pacing, yoga and meditation for ME/CFS that began after an occupational exposure. Specific supplement names and doses are not given in the visible excerpt. The site's framing is Doug is well after 13 years of…
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M.E. CFS & Fibromyalgia Recovery Success Stories - The Chrysalis Effect
The Chrysalis Effect recovery programme, combined with diet changes and meditation, is credited by a woman who was severely ill and housebound and in what she calls a dark psychological place before joining in early 2013. Illness duration beforehand is not…
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Regaining Energy and Joy: Katja's DNRS Victory Against Long COVID
Credits brain retraining. Katja had severe long COVID and is described as almost fully recovered. EBV plus long COVID; now runs and does yoga.
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Maya's Story
She recovered through functional medicine (addressing mold exposure, liver toxicity and nutrient depletion), psychotherapy, physiotherapy, and a daily body-scan meditation practiced three times a day, later training as a Functional Medicine Certified Health…
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Payton Foeller's Story
She credits low-dose naltrexone (LDN, though she says it "helped somewhat, not a gamechanger"), talk therapy, brainspotting therapy, and mind-body work drawing on Dr. John Sarno's TMS framework, polyvagal theory, trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness,…
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A Package Deal Works for Clare
The title states that a combination of supplements, diet, yoga and meditation worked for Clare, but only a brief quotation could be retrieved: that to be well she has to put in as much as she wants to get out. Her illness duration, severity, specific regimen…
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Lynn Shares Her Thoughts on How to Recover from Fibromyalgia
Credits CBT or psychological work, diet, graded exercise and meditation. Lynn had severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Hit rock bottom first; 3-5hr daily meditation.
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There Is No Cure for Fibromyalgia? Interview on Recovery from MCS/CFS/FMS
Evelyn's recovery involved meditation, vitamins, saunas, daily walks, and weekly massage with exfoliation for "toxin" removal, plus diet changes, though the page does not give specific supplement names, doses, or sauna type. She had suffered for years with…
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Beth French's Journey from ME/CFS to Ultra-Marathon Swimmer
Credits trauma and somatic work, meditation and relocation. Beth was ill 10y with very-severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Later swam the Channel; credits meditation and motherhood.
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CFS and how i found my way out
Gavin's turning point was Blackmores PPMP (a cellular-dose potassium phosphate/magnesium phosphate supplement), taken alongside years of therapy, meditation, and doctor-prescribed antidepressants; he says he felt well again within 10 seconds of starting it.…