Water fasting - Can I take my meds?
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Undated
Summary
pamojja had fasted 21 days without problems at age 20, before becoming ill, but a 7-day water fast attempted after developing ME/CFS in their 40s went badly. It left them prediabetic and triggered a severe magnesium deficiency, with painful muscle cramps that took high-dose magnesium supplementation to control and persisted for nearly nine years. They report no ME/CFS benefit from the fast, only this long-running harm.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Supplements, Trauma & somatic work, Extended water fasting (3+ days), Selenium, iodine, minerals.
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