Constant Vigilance: Julie Rehmeyer's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Recovery Story
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 8 years
- Published
- May 2014
Summary
Julie Rehmeyer, a science journalist, saw her health decline from 1999, had full-blown ME/CFS by 2006 and by 2011 could barely get from bed to the bathroom. She credits extreme mold avoidance, including a bare-bones retreat to Death Valley and discarding most of her belongings, plus infrared saunas, coffee enemas and liver-support supplements. She now rates her health 8.5 out of 10, working full-time, travelling and exercising, but must keep avoiding mold indefinitely and still has symptomatic mornings and occasional lost days.
What they credit
Credits Mould avoidance, Supplements, Mold avoidance / CIRS protocol, Relocation and environmental change.
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