Deanna Gets Better the Lerner Way: A Valcyte ME/CFS Success Story
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Apr 2015
Summary
Followed Dr. Lerner's protocol using Valcyte for ME/CFS linked to an HHV-6 infection, after the illness had pushed her, a previously athletic mother, to the brink. Illness duration before starting is not given in the excerpt. Is now working full time and can swim, bike, walk and exercise normally while staying on the protocol. The thread explicitly notes that the two times she went off the protocol she immediately became sick again, so the improvement depends on continuing treatment rather than being a standalone cure.
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