Amy's Story - from Athletic Go-Getter to Homebound and Back Up Again
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 4 years
- Published
- Aug 2016
Summary
Amy was an athletic runner working 60-hour weeks whose progressive fatigue, triggered by fevers after long runs, left her mostly home- and bed-bound and unable to work within a year. Dr Lerner treated her with Valcyte and she improved to near-normal daily functioning and freelance work, replacing running with walking and yoga. She describes herself as not 100% yet but having found a new normal.
Read it in their words
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What they credit
Credits Alternative therapies, Antivirals, Trauma & somatic work, Meditation, yoga, breathwork, Valcyte / valganciclovir.
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