Preliminary result of furthered improvement obviously leading to health
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Oct 2020
Summary
percyval577 has had ME/CFS for years and self-experimented with a low-manganese diet and sipped doses of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. He reported a rather wonderful summer in 2020 but deteriorated in mid-September, after not keeping up the supplements for long. By late 2025 he said things were going quite well for now and hoped for full remission, while noting an antipsychotic had long-lasting bad effects.
What they tried
Credits Diet, Other prescription drugs, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Low-dose Abilify / aripiprazole, Selenium, iodine, minerals.
What they credit
Also tried
Approaches: Diet · Other prescription drugs · Supplements
Side effects and setbacks
- “a normal dose of an neuroleptic (antipsychotic) was once worst decision ever I have made, long lasting effects” Side effects
- “it caused noese blooding which was initianally induced by a single intake of a D2 antagonist” Side effects
- “higher amounts are bad” Side effects
- Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids“I had two times a pronounced bad effect from taking them together” Made symptoms worse
- Carnitine, BCAA, amino acids“but later it got aut of work and then had a bad effect” Made symptoms worse
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