what has worked for you
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Oct 2014
Summary
Starting from only managing to get dressed once a week, she used an unspecified herbal list, a strict pacing protocol and twice-weekly oxygen therapy at an MS therapy centre. She now works 2.5 days a week doing "easy office stuff," presented as a sustained gain with no mention of it fading.
What they credit
Credits Hyperbaric & oxygen, Alternative therapies, Pacing, Herbal and Chinese medicine, Pacing and the energy envelope.
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