Actual Improvement in PEM with Probiotics - My N=1 Experience
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Jun 2022
Summary
katabasis, previously scoring her disability at 10/100, says roughly six weeks on a specific dual-strain probiotic moved her to about 20/100, enough to do minor chores and read for 30 minutes without triggering PEM, and that she recovered from a dental procedure in 48 hours versus a typical month-long crash. She calls it "more so than virtually every other intervention I have tried," but is explicit this is an N=1 report and the gain, while real to her, is still a small fraction of full function.
What they credit
Credits Supplements, Probiotics and fermented foods.
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