How it went
Did it last?
- 3 of 17 said the benefit wore off.
- 3 of 17 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 | 1 | 6% |
| Near-full | 0 | 0% |
| Substantial | 9 | 53% |
| Partial | 6 | 35% |
| Relapsed | 0 | 0% |
| No benefit | 1 | 6% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | 1 | 0% | |
| Moderate | 2 | 0% | |
| Severe | 5 | 0% | |
| Very severe | 4 | 25% |
5 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.
How often it comes up
Posts that mention Omega-3 and fish oil, 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 | 3 | 184 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 682 | 4.4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 704 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | 1,491 | 5.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,708 | 6.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,352 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2,158 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 35 | 1,431 | 24.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,110 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2,201 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,075 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2,581 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1,867 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1,166 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 1,000 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1,237 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1,019 | 2.9 |
| 2026 (so far) | 0 | 840 | 0.0 |
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 17 accounts
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On the road to recovery from Long Covid
Lauren combined nicotine patches at one-eighth of a patch daily through December with a broad daily supplement regimen, including CoQ10 100mg, Ionic Fulvic Acid 1ml three times a day, Hawthorn Leaves 5ml, and products like Adrenal Complex, Adreno Active,…
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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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[Case study] CFS/ME remission story severe patient [2008]
A severe ME/CFS patient documented in a 2008 case report used a year of tapering immunoglobulin dosing alongside gut-repair supplements and antibiotic treatment for mycoplasma, progressing from severe to mild over the 12 months of treatment. Immunoglobulin…
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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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Treatment with KDM Miraculous So Far, Need Help with Dysbiosis Though
After roughly 30 years of suspected chronic Lyme/ME-CFS that left him "near totally bed-ridden and almost not being able to speak," he began a multi-part KDM protocol in 2018 including subcutaneous Gammanorm, alternating Normix/Mutaflor, B12 injections, an…
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Need to delete this. [Deleted]
Was diagnosed with ME/CFS first, then four years later diagnosed with Lyme disease and treated with a combination of pharmaceutical and herbal antibiotics under a Lyme specialist, and separately started cholestyramine with EPA/DHA fish oil after also…
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3 kings to lift you
From sleeping 22 hours a day and considering suicide about six years into illness, this poster describes a large, years-long stack - pulsed steroids, noopept-based nootropics, experimental NSI-189, and roughly twenty daily supplements - restoring the ability…
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My start to healing and how Tendonitis/Tendonosis/Bursitis/Gout can overlap and mimic each other
For joint pain including shoulder and hip bursitis, this poster credits bromelain, rutin and parsley as "particularly effective," alongside capsaicin, fish oil and estrogen replacement therapy - the latter she says "saved my kidneys." Presented as clearly…
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Fish oil - any benefits?
DHA was taken as Nordic Naturals DHA capsules, with no dose or duration stated. There is no information on how long the person had been ill or how severe their condition was. They reported the capsules "really helps me with mood," a mood-specific benefit…
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Fish oil Causing more fatigue?
EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) was taken as part of a combined EPA/DHA fish-oil supplement, with no specific dose or duration stated. No detail is given on how long the person had been ill or how severe their ME/CFS was. While the combination gave some…
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Fish oil Causing more fatigue?
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) was taken on its own, separately from combined fish oil, with no stated dose or duration. No detail is given on how long they had been ill or how severe their ME/CFS was. Unlike standard fish oil, which the poster said completely…
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Nutritional Genomics and My Complete Recovery
Built a nutritional-genomics-guided regimen of biotin, sublingual flavin mononucleotide, a low-fat diet balanced 3:1 for omega-6 to omega-3, a low-amine diet, and as-needed molybdenum and P5P, adjusting doses as symptoms emerged. Had ME/CFS with about 9…
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Possible CFS success story. Got much better after 4-5 years. Here's what has helped.
Never formally diagnosed but self-describing as a mild case, this poster went from an estimated 20% to 70-90% of normal functioning over 4-5 years on a large stack (St. John's Wort, 15g/day D-ribose, melatonin/Seriphos, acetyl-L-carnitine, fish oil) plus a…
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Combination of Supplements Allows Me to Work and Exercise - But causes extreme Gastritis
Built a roughly 60-item daily supplement stack (B12, NADH, high-dose antioxidants/glutathione, SAM-e, CoQ10, glandulars, ribose, phosphatidylserine and more) over three-plus years of trial and error for CFS, fibromyalgia and Hashimoto's. Says the combination…
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Methylation recovery survey. Recovery stories here!!
Followed a "Yasko lite" methylation protocol blending Rich Van Konynenburg/Freddd/Ben Lynch approaches for about 1.5 years, including methylcobalamin, adenosylcobalamin, potassium, magnesium, molybdenum and methylfolate. She discontinued long-term antifungal…
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what seems likely to have improved my gut?
After years of gut pain following nearly every meal, he built up a broad supplement stack and reports his gut pain "starting to improve dramatically in the past week," on top of an earlier partial improvement within the first week of starting magnesium. The…
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Supplements that have helped me
Takes vitamin D ("makes a real difference for me"), B-vitamins, whey protein for GI problems, omega-3 for joint/muscle pain, and topical Traumeel/Lymphagen for chronically swollen throat and ear glands, alongside juicing and a grains/sugar-reduced diet.…