Out of the 88 accounts with a clear outcome; 1 more don’t say how it went.
How it went
Did it last?
- 19 of 89 said the benefit wore off (including the 7 who relapsed).
- 12 of 89 needed to keep up a treatment to stay well.
Read from what people wrote. A story that ends without a follow-up counts as lasting, so treat these as minimums.
| Outcome described | Accounts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full recovery | 22 | 25% |
| Near-full | 10 | 11% |
| Substantial | 25 | 28% |
| Partial | 15 | 17% |
| Relapsed | 7 | 8% |
| No benefit | 9 | 10% |
| Outcome unclear | 1 | — |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | 2 | 50% | |
| Moderate | 16 | 38% | |
| Severe | 33 | 48% | |
| Very severe | 14 | 43% |
24 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
Who published these accounts
Right-hand number: share describing a full or near-full recovery. Pages that sell something, and advocacy sites, tend to publish only the successes.
What people with anxiety & low mood tried
- TreatmentHow it wentRecoveredFaded
- Meditation, yoga, breathwork12 accounts
50% 17%
- Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust)10 accounts
50% 20%
- Lightning Process10 accounts
80% 30%
- B12 injections and methylation9 accounts
11% 22%
- Selenium, iodine, minerals9 accounts
33% 22%
- Pacing and the energy envelope9 accounts
78% 11%
- Low-dose naltrexone6 accounts
33% 0%
- Elimination and ketogenic diets6 accounts
50% 0%
- Trauma work (EFT, EMDR, TRE)6 accounts
67% 0%
- Doxycycline and other antibiotics5 accounts
0% 0%
- SSRIs and antidepressants5 accounts
40% 40%
- CBT and psychotherapy5 accounts
60% 40%
- Sarno / TMS / somatic tracking / JournalSpeak5 accounts
60% 0%
- Neurolinguistic programming (NLP)4 accounts
75% 25%
- Mold avoidance / CIRS protocol4 accounts
25% 0%
- Beta-blockers3 accounts
33% 33%
- Benzodiazepines and Klonopin3 accounts
67% 33%
- NAC and glutathione3 accounts
0% 0%
Within the accounts on this page. Grey numbers rest on fewer than 10 accounts.
All 89 accounts
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Alan Gordon: Fatigue, Pain, Nausea, Anxiety: Here's How to Turn Them Off
Credits PRT and mind body. Alan had ME/CFS and is listed among the recovery accounts. Pain psychologist/PRT expert, not a personal story.
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SGB for Long COVID with PTSD, Anxiety and Chronic Pain: case report
This 58-year-old chef received sequential bilateral stellate ganglion blocks, left side then right side a week later, in January 2023, with repeat right-sided blocks in December 2024 and September 2025; the injected medications and doses are not specified.…
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Volker Stahl's Recovery Story
Managed long COVID mainly through pacing with a heart rate monitor, gentle yoga and light cycling, unspecified supplements, a COVID booster vaccination, and a psychological reframing approach inspired by Professor Paul Garner's published recovery account. He…
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Incredible recovery after 30 years of ME/CFS!
Followed the Gupta Program, a mind-body retraining program, for about a year. Had been ill with ME/CFS and post-exertional malaise since 2011 and at one point became very physically active again before relapsing roughly three and a half years before this…
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118: Told "It's Just Anxiety"—What Finally Helped Colin Recover from Long Covid
Credits brain retraining. Colin had long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Initially misdiagnosed as pure anxiety.
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Primal Trust testimonials: Reese
Reese used the Primal Trust Regulate course, purchased as a 3-month package in January 2025, after struggling with Long COVID for almost three years. She reports her brain fog is gone, her eyesight has improved, and she feels stronger than she has in years,…
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I Consistently Feel Immensely Better Doing Daily mHBOT Sessions
A long-term multi-condition patient, now seventy-three, who bought his own mild hyperbaric chamber for about eight thousand dollars and has run near-daily one-to-two-hour sessions for about a year. He feels immensely better during and for hours after each…
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Low oxalate diet noticeably improved my fatigue and brain fog after 3 days
Hip started a low-oxalate diet plus calcium-with-meals and daily magnesium and reports significant improvement in fatigue, brain fog and mental/anxiety symptoms appearing within just 3 days. He calls the brain fog and "zombie-like mental vagueness" clearly…
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Clinical trials explore how Low-Dose Naltrexone could help people with Long COVID
Kate Herbert, a nurse with Emerge Australia, first tried low-dose naltrexone at 1.5mg daily but stopped after two weeks due to insomnia, nightmares and anxiety, then restarted at a much lower 0.25mg daily, which she has continued taking. The article does not…
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A bit of a breakthrough
Posting as "bradmcblain," the patient used chelation therapy for mercury toxicity, Freddd's B12 Protocol with daily methylcobalamin injections, methylene blue (started 3 months before the post), and — added 2 weeks before posting — a Vielight Neuro Gamma…
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My experiences with apoptosis treatment for HHV-6b, EBV subgroup ME/CFS
Built a long-running self-treatment stack over 15 years - artemisinin, galangal and magnolia bark to unblock apoptosis, a sublingual terpene mix (pinene, beta-caryophyllene, limonene) dosed 20-60 drops, curcumin, and doxycycline for the bacterial component -…
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What worked for me!
Diagnosed with CFS in 2001, with TSH consistently low over the years, started Synthroid at 75mcg. Nineteen days after starting, reports feeling miserable, with low blood pressure, depression, liver pain and what she calls sugar rage. Reports no benefit and…
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James's ME/CFS, Insomnia and Anxiety Success Story
Credits brain retraining. James had ME/CFS and reports a substantial improvement. Comorbid insomnia and anxiety noted.
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Jen's ME/CFS, Anxiety and IBS Success Story
Credits brain retraining. Jen had ME/CFS and reports a substantial improvement. Comorbid anxiety and IBS noted in the title.
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Ten Months of Long COVID
Marie Sanchez Nelson describes taking cetirizine, an antihistamine that calms her nervous system "in minutes," and had started nattokinase just three days before this post, which she hypothesizes may help repair blood vessels; no doses or durations are given…
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Michelle
Michelle saw more than ten specialists and tried extensive medical treatment: beta blockers, the migraine drug Ubrelvy, meclizine for dizziness, two rounds of prednisone, B12 shots for neuropathy, and Paxlovid taken months after her initial infection, plus…
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It was a great revelation and relief to discover that I had the power to heal myself
Began following Nicole Sachs' free "Healing Yourself" videos and her paid "Freedom from Chronic Pain" course, alongside Dr Howard Schubiner's "Unlearn Your Pain" resources, substituting "pain" for "symptoms" as he worked through them from late October 2022,…
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Gary
Gary's recovery is credited to Nicole Sachs' free YouTube series "Healing Yourself" (Parts 1-4) followed by her paid course Freedom from Chronic Pain, plus Dr. Howard Schubiner's mind-body material at unlearnyourpain.com, applying pain-reprocessing…
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Healing from Long Covid with water fasting
Eleven months into Long COVID with chest pain, breathlessness, anxiety and depression, Luke did a 28-day water-only fast built around three short dry-fasting stretches of 36, 60 and 84 hours roughly a week apart. Fatigue and brain fog cleared within the…
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A Rapamycin Resurgence: An MD Moves the Needle on his ME/CFS
Liver derivative complex (Nexavir) was one of more than a dozen treatments he listed trying, alongside antidepressants, antivirals, erythromycin, doxycycline, NAC and others, with no dose or duration specified for it individually. He had been very severely…
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Robyn Dale
Robyn's treatment combined short courses of propranolol, zopiclone and diazepam early on with medium-term amitriptyline for insomnia, mood and muscle spasms, alongside daily walking, yoga, meditation and graded activity. She crashed severely in December 2021…
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Robyn Dale
Robyn was prescribed short-term propranolol for heart arrhythmia and palpitations, at doses that were increased despite her objections, short-term zopiclone and diazepam to help her rest, and medium-term amitriptyline for insomnia, mood, and to stop cluster…
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Instead of feeling guilty and tired out, I feel confident to live my life – I know how to manage my emotions better
Took an online Lightning Process course in November 2021, after a hospital ME/CFS clinic attended for "a couple of years," an unnamed alternative therapy and counselling had not produced a breakthrough. She had cycled through "crash and burn" episodes of…
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Shannon Sims
She credits her recovery to mind-body practices including meditation, guided imagery, expressive writing, biofeedback, and nature exposure, with no drug, supplement, or named branded program cited on the page. She became ill in March 2020 with a two-week…
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Amy Engkjer
She combined a concussion protocol (limiting phone use and conversation), neurofeedback, a five-hour NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) session, EMDR, physical therapy, shiatsu, daily cold showers, an anti-inflammatory diet, meditation, and journaling,…
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After one year and 10 days I realized that I was done with COVID! The mind-body connection was the final piece in my healing
Combined neurofeedback, a concussion protocol, a five-hour session with an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner, EMDR, shiatsu, meditation and journaling as part of a broader mind-body approach to her illness. She had more than 18 Long COVID…
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I had to work incredibly hard to avoid reverting to the pattern of exhaustion I had been stuck in
Attended a Lightning Process course in December 2017 together with her sister, after a psychologist had lifted her depression but not her fatigue and a hospital ME assessment found nothing. She had been ill since a burnout in November 2012 at a psychiatric…
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I had long Covid. I have fully recovered
In May, Rachel Whitfield did a three-day Lightning Process training course for long COVID that began with a mild case testing positive in December, followed by boom-bust cycles of "crippling fatigue, covid toes, covid strangle throat, burning back, anxiety,…
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Bpc157 side effects
BPC-157 peptide, taken by injection at an unstated dose. Hip, a long-standing member of an ME/CFS patient forum, does not state in this post how long he had been ill or how severe it was. He reports the injections caused mental agitation and anxiety as a…
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I was an ME patient for 23 years. I was in care. Today I can do anything I want, and I enjoy living my life
In 2017 she took a three-day Lightning Process course with practitioner Live Landmark in Oslo after 23 years of "serious degree" ME (diagnosed by neurologist Harald Nyland in 1996), which by then had left her bedbound, wheelchair-dependent, unable to speak…
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Eight years of sickness is history. My son once again has a mother, my husband has a wife, and I've got a life!
Lotte attended a three-day Lightning Process course with practitioner Live Landmark, learning "basic neurology and about the functioning of the brain" and using the method several times a day, after eight years of ME/CFS requiring 12-18 hours of rest daily…
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Anyone used Lions Mane???
Lion's Mane mushroom at 1 gram three times daily produced a rapid initial response in an ME/CFS patient: within about half an hour, severe skin and nerve burning eased by roughly 50%, and by the third day brain swelling sensations had dropped about 80% with…
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Abilify Shows Promise in ME/CFS Study (Dian)
Dian takes Abilify at 4.5 mg along with low-dose naltrexone (LDN), a combination she has used for two years. She has had ME/CFS since a bout of mono as a teenager and is now 54; she went from needing a wheelchair or walker to walking 2 to 4 miles a day,…
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l-citrulline boosting energy (and BP!)
Citrulline malate, 3 grams taken two to three times daily, was tried by Hip for ME/CFS. He reported it did not seem to do much for his core ME/CFS symptoms. He did notice an anti-anxiety effect, which he attributed to citrulline's conversion to arginine in…
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The best thing I have done is to say: no way will I accept that my daughter will just lie there and suffer indefinitely, without us being able to do anything
Her mother credits a phone consultation and course with Lightning Process coach Live Landmark, alongside a four-week stay, later repeated, at the Catosenteret rehabilitation centre run by Dr Bard Fossli Jensen, for her daughter's recovery from ME. Before…
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7 hours remission after subc heparin
Dalteparin, a low-molecular-weight heparin in the same drug class as enoxaparin, self-injected subcutaneously at 5000 IU per syringe across a 10-syringe box; duration of illness and severity are not stated. He reported that each injection gave him roughly…
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James's CFS, Insomnia and Anxiety Story
Credits brain retraining. James had severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. Dutch; had suicidal ideation, improved within 3 weeks.
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Trial By Error: Joan McParland's Lightning Process Experience
She took a three-day Lightning Process course (10am-2pm daily, costing GBP880), an NLP-based technique using standing on paper circles, affirmations, and rhymes, after ten years of severe ME/CFS. Participants, including her, were instructed to tell…
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I had a shower stool and a wheelchair, but today I am proud and extremely happy to say that I have recovered
Recovered through a Lightning Process course in August 2018, signing up after a conversation with someone who had recovered via LP overcame her earlier scepticism from what she'd read online. She had collapsed completely at Easter 2017, some time after a…
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Burned out. A journey in and out of exile from life.
Bård attended a three-day Lightning Process course about eight months after falling ill, and says he "declared myself healthy after the first day." He had been unable to work for about a year after his last working day in October 2015, following a burnout…
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When I read my story today about my illness period, I can hardly believe how bad it was
Attended a three-day Lightning Process course in Oslo in September 2017, after eight hours of municipal cognitive therapy had earlier proved "incredibly effective" and helped her avoid a formal ME/CFS diagnosis. She had been severely ill for about 18 months…
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The key was realising that my illness and relapses had all happened during times when I didn't have any work to do, usually after a period of stress
Recovered without any named clinic or formal programme, through self-directed changes — leaving a stressful job, moving out of London, moving in with his girlfriend and building his own projects — after doctors diagnosed post-viral fatigue and later…
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Treating patients suffering from ME/CFS with Sodium Dichloroacetate (pilot trial)
Sodium dichloroacetate (DCA), 350mg taken as two divided doses on a single day, was tried after reading about a pilot trial reporting benefit in some ME/CFS patients. Their illness duration and severity are not stated in the post. Rather than helping, the…
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Homeopathy - My Cure after 15 years
Rosco84 developed severe fatigue and brain fog after glandular fever at 17 and struggled for 15 years while still working full-time, trying supplements, antidepressants and acupuncture with little lasting benefit. A homeopath using remedies including…
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Symbioflor-2: Another E.Coli Probiotic
Symbioflor-2, an E. coli probiotic, was taken over three weeks with the dose gradually increased to 21 drops a day. Illness duration and severity before starting are not stated, though prior stool testing had shown an absence of bifidobacteria, lactobacillus…
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The Strange Cases of ME Remissions Induced by SSRIs
After 4-5 years of illness marked by significant neurological disability, started sertraline 200mg in 1992 and improved to roughly 70% functioning. The benefit did not last: "then I went into relapse and seemed to get no benefit," and around two dozen other…
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Serrapeptase gives me more energy and no brain fog, why?
One capsule of 40,000 SPU serrapeptase before meals produced, within 4-5 hours and lasting 2-3 days, a jump in energy, sharper focus, no brain fog, reduced depression, better skin and relief from sinusitis and mold/chemical itching, according to this poster;…
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WHAT DOES THIS POSITIVE EFFECT OF PREDNISONE MEAN?
After recently starting a low, intermittent dose of prednisone, this poster reports fatigue, brain fog, anxiety and depression all lifting, saying he feels "cured already" - hedged only with "so far," since treatment had just begun with no data yet on durability.
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Desmopressin Does it For ME/CFS/POTS patient
An unnamed patient with severe ME/CFS and POTS was mostly homebound for several years before starting oral desmopressin under Dr Lucinda Bateman's care, alongside pacing and treatment of sleep, pain and anxiety. Within a year the patient reported complete…
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Licorice and its pharmacology
Whole licorice root, dose and duration unspecified, was taken by an ME/CFS patient who described their adrenals as already cooked beforehand. Rather than helping, it accelerated their metabolism and pushed their adrenals further, causing sweating and…
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Mostly Recovered From ME/CFS After 22 Years!!
After antivirals didn't work and sleep medication only helped temporarily then stopped helping for 3 years, took up amygdala retraining as her primary intervention for ME/CFS. Had been ill 22 years, with PEM previously triggered by minimal activities like…
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A Fibromyalgia Patient Finds Help with Antivirals
Melissa followed Dr. Lerner's antiviral protocol after testing positive for active cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus, taking unspecified antibiotics and antivirals; the page does not give exact drug names or doses. She had developed fatigue, postpartum…
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Biotoxin Journey
Gregory Muske's account names few specifics, but he mentions taking binders and, more recently, VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide), without giving doses; a commenter asks whether he completed the Shoemaker protocol, which he doesn't clearly confirm. He…
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Dramatic improvement in mental symptoms from melatonin dosed in the DAY
JES reports feeling "even better than usual after sleep deprivation" on a small morning dose of melatonin, but says anxiety and brain fog return by the following afternoon, matching douglasmich's pattern of a short-lived rather than lasting benefit.
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Beat Candida Diet Beats Christine's 10 Year Bout with ME/CFS
Christine suffered years of severe ME/CFS exhaustion and depression after a gradual onset in the early 1990s, at her lowest slumped in a chair with little interest in life. Under a nutritional therapist's guidance she followed a four-week anti-candida…
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Nutritional Genomics and My Complete Recovery
Used a nutritional-genomics-guided protocol, using his own genetic testing results to choose specific diet and supplement changes, alongside an ongoing low-histamine diet. Had ME/CFS along with cycling OCD, anxiety and depression severe enough to require two…
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Nutritional Genomics and My Complete Recovery
P5P (vitamin B6) was taken occasionally and in low amounts, specifically when lower-back pain or depression flared, as one part of a broader nutritional-genomics-guided supplement stack that also included biotin 5,000mcg two to three times daily, magnesium…
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Nutritional Genomics and My Complete Recovery
Built a nutritional-genomics-guided regimen of biotin, sublingual flavin mononucleotide, a low-fat diet balanced 3:1 for omega-6 to omega-3, a low-amine diet, and as-needed molybdenum and P5P, adjusting doses as symptoms emerged. Had ME/CFS with about 9…
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Success treating multiple infections with Chlorine Dioxide
Followed Kerri Rivera's MMS (chlorine dioxide) protocol for 4.5 months, combined with a raw vegan diet and daily castor oil packs, for CFS/ME diagnosed 15 years earlier and later found to involve Lyme, bartonella, babesia, EBV, mycoplasma and mold. Had been…
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Louise Finds One Thing That Turns Life Around
The specific single intervention that Louise credits is not disclosed in the accessible excerpt of this recovery story, only that it followed a period of severe stress layered on earlier depression and anxiety. The site frames it as the one thing that turned…
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Louise Finds One Thing That Turns Life Around
Louise, who had a prior history of anxiety and depression, developed post-viral fatigue after stress-induced poor sleep escalated into flu-like symptoms, severe muscle and joint pain and a sore throat that left her unable to work. Amitriptyline, rest,…
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Yoga Slowly Coaxes Fiona Back to Health
Fiona, a PR executive, developed ME/CFS in the early 1990s after stress, poor diet and flu, and by 1992 was wheelchair-bound, too tired to hold a conversation and having panic attacks. Gentle yoga focused on relaxation and breathing, meditation and a…
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High Protein, High Fat, Low Carb Diet Makes it for Mike
Mike developed a sudden onset of ME/CFS after losing his job and then his home, becoming depressed while eating mostly junk food. He credits a switch to a high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet based on Dr Wolfgang Lutz's approach with restoring both…
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20 Years of Fibromyalgia, CFS, PTSD, Depression End
Credits mindset book, EFT tapping and diet. Leah was ill 20y with severe ME/CFS and is described as fully recovered. EFT, anti-inflammatory diet, lost 70lb.
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Methylation: From feeling FANTASTIC back to Square One
After years of depression, brain fog and morning "zombie" fatigue since childhood, starting a methylated Thorne B Complex brought what he called "life changing results" within 3-4 days — lifted depression, cleared brain fog, more energy, better memory and…
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Mickel Therapy Does it For Mandi
Mandi went from an active woman holding two jobs to someone so severely fatigued and depressed she could not get out of bed, with repeated relapses including a three-month relapse in 2004 that forced her to stop working. Mickel Therapy brought rapid change:…
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Boo's Healing with B12 Journal
About two years into B12-deficiency-related neurological symptoms, depression and heart palpitations severe enough to include hospitalization for a suspected cardiac event, she moved to monthly hydroxocobalamin injections alongside potassium, magnesium, iron…
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High-Dose Selenium Significantly Improves My Fatigue and Brain Fog
Hip is a long-standing, moderately ill ME/CFS forum member and prolific self-experimenter who has never found one cure but has documented dozens of individual n=1 supplement/technique trials, each targeting a specific symptom. Notably, high-dose selenium…
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B12 does seem to be helping me :)
Struggling with significant brain fog, depression and word-finding problems, he started Jarrow methylcobalamin lozenges at 1000mcg/day, raising the dose to 2000mcg and then 5000mcg over about 3 months. By 5 months he reported less brain fog, improved writing…
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Diet and improvement
Followed a strict "Practical Paleo"-book diet for 30 days, then eased off slightly, over about two months total. She reports "significant improvement" - much more energy, headaches and dizziness gone, and anxiety gone (though she notes that "could be from…
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Ten Years of healing: No more congestive heart failure, FMS, CFS and minus 100 pounds
After roughly a decade disabled to the point of managing only 8 minutes of rebounding exercise a day, she followed the Deadlock Quartet methylation protocol and reported "doing so well." A year later, in a separate thread, she described "massive…
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Lyme Literacy: A 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronicle' Pt. VI
Sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (Bactrim) was one of several antibiotics she received intravenously, alongside Doxycycline and Azithromycin, under a Lyme-literate physician's care. She had been severely debilitated by chronic fatigue syndrome for about…
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Feeling generally better
Thirty years after a mono-triggered onset that left her housebound, unable to drive or cook, with severe vertigo and depression, she layered years of high-dose Famvir and Acyclovir and about two years of Mycoplasma antibiotics with, more recently, roughly…
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Dermorphin Experience - Very Impressive Results
Took a single 100mcg intranasal dose of dermorphin (extracted from the same frog secretions used in Kambo) for ME/CFS with co-occurring generalized anxiety. Over the following days reports reduced brain fog and sensory hypersensitivity, better energy,…
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Completely eliminated my severe anxiety symptoms with three supplements!
Hip, an ME/CFS patient, says this three-supplement combination "pretty much eliminated" his severe anxiety symptoms, with the relief sustained as an ongoing regimen rather than a one-off effect. This is a single-symptom (anxiety) improvement within his…
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Cheap recovery plan
Combined the Klinghardt parasite protocol, auto-urine therapy, fresh garlic juice with tomato juice twice daily, a homemade MAF-style raw-dairy brew, a raw-sauerkraut/enzyme-rich diet, and (until a few months earlier) the Simplified Methylation Protocol. He…
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Dr Martin Pall supplements
Ecklonia cava was taken at 200 mg as part of the Pall protocol supplement regimen, marketed as FibroBoost. No detail is given on how long she had been ill or how severe her ME/CFS was beforehand. Rather than improving her symptoms, she reported feeling…
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Feel much better on methylation and pyroluria treatment, but still weird symptoms
After years of chest pain and anxiety severe enough to require benzodiazepines, combining B12 injections, folate, P5P and a kryptopyrroluria (KPU) protocol of high-dose zinc and B6 resolved chest pain he'd had for over 2 years, sharply reduced anxiety, and…
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Hormones: Some women go into remission during pregnancy, can we recreate w hormones?
Used a high-dose estriol cream (6-8mg/day) and says it was "like a miracle for me when I started it," giving dramatic relief from nervous-system symptoms, POTS and depression. The effect later stopped working after she changed her thyroid medication, so the…
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Just passed six months on the Gupta programme
He followed the Gupta Programme (amygdala retraining) for four of a planned six months, doing daily meditation and the "Stop-Stop-Stop" technique alongside an acting class and other activities. He describes his ME/CFS as relatively mild, following a period…
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Learning to Fly Again
Kelvin Lord, "barely able to walk" at the start, took twice-weekly Ampligen infusions for a full year with perfect compliance, enduring about six months of flu-like side effects (tremors, diarrhea, vision loss, depression). He reached roughly 70%…
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St Johns wort?
St John's Wort, including a New Chapter brand product, was tried more than once by this ME/CFS patient without any noticeable benefit on its own. Illness duration before starting is not stated, and doses are not specified. She notes a possible mild benefit…
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St Johns wort?
St John's Wort was taken for under two weeks by this ME/CFS patient, at an unspecified dose. Illness duration before starting is not stated. It initially worked "excellent for depression," but she went on to develop severe mood swings and emotional…
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Tricyclic Antidepressants Work for Me
RuralRick woke up with sudden-onset CFS 40 years ago and spent 4 untreated years severely affected before a second tricyclic antidepressant (after a first failed) brought remission within about a week at 125-150mg. He has maintained that remission on a…
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Naviaux, the ME/CFS-Autism Connection, and a Treatment Success - A New Website Opens
Index entry (confirmed by LouiseLouise herself in the thread) credits her with 100mg of biotin twice daily easing autism-spectrum-linked anxiety and irritability alongside her CFS; the fuller account lives on her own site (syndromea.org), which was not…
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Gcmaf-reactions and side effects
Monthly injections of GcMAF at 1/5 dose from a new "blue-top vial" batch produced an unusual immediate headache, and within the following week she "relapsed terribly" with daily severe depression, near-daily adrenal crashes and head inflammation. She…
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Payton Foeller's Story
She credits low-dose naltrexone (LDN, though she says it "helped somewhat, not a gamechanger"), talk therapy, brainspotting therapy, and mind-body work drawing on Dr. John Sarno's TMS framework, polyvagal theory, trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness,…
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Cedar Brown's Story
She recovered from ME/CFS, alongside POTS, mold illness, IBS and anxiety, using a combination of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), the Edison Effect Program by Anj Garneri, Trauma Healing Accelerated and somatics work, pacing, IFS parts work and mold remediation,…
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CFS and how i found my way out
Gavin's turning point was Blackmores PPMP (a cellular-dose potassium phosphate/magnesium phosphate supplement), taken alongside years of therapy, meditation, and doctor-prescribed antidepressants; he says he felt well again within 10 seconds of starting it.…