Stages of Recovery - personal experience
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- "sick for so long," first year of recovery described at time of posting
- Published
- May 2010
Summary
Eliminated all grains in favor of soaked seeds, vegetables and fruit, with only occasional B12, amino acids, coconut kefir and macrobiotic foods, deliberately keeping supplements minimal. A year into this she no longer needs bed rest most days, does "much much more" activity, and says her mental function is "so much better," calling her condition "in recession." She's confident the recovery is holding and credits diet more than supplements, speculating her body is largely self-healing once the diet was fixed -- though she flags uncertainty about whether white rice's arsenic content matters.
What they credit
Credits Diet, Supplements, B12 injections and methylation, Elimination and ketogenic diets, Probiotics and fermented foods, Radical rest.
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