Jennifer
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 1.17 years
- Published
- Jan 2023
Summary
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 lijf, Nicole Sachs' Tell Me About Your Pain podcast, an article by Dr. Howard Schubiner, and a daily 20-minute yoga nidra practice. She had been ill since November 2021 with fatigue, pain reflexes, headaches and brain fog that limited her activity, though she remained able to cycle and attend appointments. By January 2023, about 14 months later, she described herself as "well on my way" to recovery using the insights from this approach, rather than claiming full recovery. She explicitly states an ongoing residual symptom: her body still reacts to mental pressure and physical tension with pain reflexes, but by then only about once a week and for no more than a few minutes, indicating a still-improving, maintenance-type status rather than complete resolution.
Read it in their words
longcovidcured.com — a recovery advocacy site.
What they credit
Credits Brain retraining, Manual lymphatic drainage, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Sarno / TMS / somatic tracking / JournalSpeak.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Brain fog, Headaches & migraine, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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