what has worked for you
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 20 years
- Published
- Oct 2014
Summary
After 20 years of illness severe enough that she says she "would be" completely housebound and probably bedbound without treatment, unnamed antivirals and immune modulators keep her functioning at home, attending only medical appointments outside it. She puts her functioning at "15-20% at best" and says brain fog persists regardless, so this is medication holding a floor rather than a large recovery.
What they credit
Credits Antivirals, Time and spontaneous remission.
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