Sirin Gnadeberg Shares How She Cured Her ME/CFS and POTS
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 5 years
- Published
- Apr 2019
Summary
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 negative Lyme tests), followed by a 10-day therapeutic fast in March 2017 and a liver detox in May 2017, alongside cognitive restructuring of distorted thinking patterns, meditation, and an online emotional-release course. She had been ill for about five years, with the final two years almost entirely housebound, at her worst able to walk only a few meters at a time and awake just a few hours a day with severe brain fog. By summer 2017 she was "pretty much healthy again" and resumed university, and by August 2018 she completed a 2,000km bike tour through Sweden and Finland. As of the article's April 2019 publication date she had remained recovered for two years, though she still noted occasional "periods of low energy."
Read it in their words
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What they credit
Credits CBT & mindset, POTS medication, Antibiotics, Diet, Pacing, CBT and psychotherapy, Doxycycline and other antibiotics, Extended water fasting (3+ days), Lyme / co-infection protocols, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, PDE5 inhibitors (sildenafil, tadalafil), Pacing and the energy envelope, Salt, fluids and compression.
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