How it went
Did it last?
- 4 of 30 said the benefit wore off (including the 2 who relapsed).
- 4 of 30 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 | 5 | 17% |
| Near-full | 5 | 17% |
| Substantial | 5 | 17% |
| Partial | 10 | 33% |
| Relapsed | 2 | 7% |
| No benefit | 3 | 10% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 4 | 50% | |
| Severe | 14 | 50% | |
| Very severe | 5 | 20% |
7 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 heart symptoms & palpitations tried
- TreatmentHow it wentRecoveredFaded
- Meditation, yoga, breathwork4 accounts
75% 0%
- B12 injections and methylation3 accounts
33% 33%
- Selenium, iodine, minerals3 accounts
33% 33%
- Elimination and ketogenic diets3 accounts
33% 0%
- Extended water fasting (3+ days)3 accounts
33% 0%
Within the accounts on this page. Grey numbers rest on fewer than 10 accounts.
All 30 accounts
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My update to nicotine patch usage for Long Covid recovery
Lauren used nicotine patches for Long COVID, starting with half of a 7mg patch (3.5mg) worn intermittently for 7-10 days at a time with a few days off, then shifting in October 2025 to near-daily half-patch use for about two months, before cutting back in…
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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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Karen Wright's Story
Karen started with a low-histamine diet that brought overnight improvement, then moved to a broader anti-inflammatory diet, alongside pacing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy through the NHS Long COVID service, breathwork, meditation, yoga, counselling and…
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Leon Williams
Leon Williams recovered using a mind-body/neuroplasticity approach rooted in Dr. John Sarno's Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) framework, practicing somatic tracking meditation, expressive writing, breathwork and general meditation, with gardening as a…
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Impact of extended-course Paxlovid in established Long COVID (Case 7)
Case 7, a 29-year-old man about 10 months into Long COVID/ME since July 2022 with extreme fatigue, PEM, tachycardia, POTS, persistent headache, brain fog, chest pain and shortness of breath, took a 15-day extended Paxlovid course in May 2023 while also on…
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Impact of extended-course Paxlovid in established Long COVID (Case 4)
Case 4, a 51-year-old man about 6 months into Long COVID with fatigue, daily headaches, brain fog, mental exhaustion, PEM, racing heart, palpitations, tinnitus and visual/sensory disturbances, took a 15-day extended Paxlovid course in March 2023 alongside…
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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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Jason: Recovery From Long-Haul COVID, a DNRS Success Story
Credits brain retraining. Jason was ill 9mo with severe long COVID and is described as fully recovered. Myocarditis and brain fog; back to high-intensity exercise.
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Cured my Echovirus 11 (pretty sure)
Took quercetin 500mg twice daily plus Metagenics Ultra Potent-C (500mg vitamin C, 35mg niacin) twice daily against very high echovirus 11 titres ("too high for a real number"), which produced an "awful" seven-day Herxheimer-type reaction. Wrote "I believe I…
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Adrienne Dellwo Shares Her Fibromyalgia Remission Story
Adrienne Dellwo's regimen included low-dose naltrexone at 3mg (compounded, versus a standard 30mg dose per the article), plus rhodiola rosea, L-theanine, vitamin B and D, a custom herbal blend and acupuncture from her rheumatologist, meditation, yoga, a…
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Surprising amazing response to cinnarizine (vasodilator)
Cinnarizine at half a 25mg tablet twice daily - 12.5mg in total, well under the usual 75mg - produced a response within hours of the first dose, with tingling in the hands, feet and fingers and a sense of life coming back into the body. Pressure in the head…
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The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete
Recovered through a three-day Lightning Process course in December 2009 with her father, taught by two newly licensed instructors from the new Norwegian company Aktiv Prosess, after nothing else had helped — not a GP who told her to exercise through the…
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Beginning of improvement?
Six weeks into a self-directed antiviral/immune-booster stack (famciclovir, amantadine, cimetidine, astragalus, inosine, vitamin C) for CFS that began after an unresolved flu six years earlier, reports "much more energy, no brain fog, no fatigue, no chest…
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Starting on Valtrex --feeling die-off -- any positive stories?
On Valtrex 6g/day since January, reports joint pain "disappeared completely," with heat tolerance and heart palpitations also improved, and explicitly self-labels as "a responder and success story." Caveats that energy levels remained low: "still in bed most…
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Mestinon + Famvir - whoa!
After a severe EBV flare in February 2017 that made cardiac symptoms - low blood pressure, low heart rate, shortness of breath, "heart palpitations like mad" - much worse on top of 5 years of CFS, started Famvir (titrated up to 500mg twice daily), added…
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How I solved my b12 deficiency mystery
After about a year of heart palpitations, high blood pressure, vertigo, numb extremities and ER visits — with B12 and methyl-B12 tablets repeatedly triggering crashes — she found topical magnesium oil was the missing piece. She was out of bed the next day,…
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Has anyone tried "GABA" supplement- need feedback!
GABA (Solgar brand, 500mg) was tried once at bedtime by a patient who uses a motorized wheelchair and carries positive anti-GAD65 antibodies affecting glutamate-to-GABA conversion. Duration of illness is not stated in the post. Rather than helping, the…
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Tried Stimulants, Seen notable improvement
Trying Ritalin and then Adderall XR 10mg, this poster reports cognition and concentration improved enough that "if I try I can do work," while fatigue itself stayed largely unchanged; he switched away from Adderall due to heart palpitations. Hedges that…
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GcMAF spray and bravo yogurt
The same patient who had a marginal-to-positive response to GcMAF/Bravo products for his ME/CFS found that after later contracting COVID and developing long COVID, the products "would flare up my Cov chest pain/tightness and general inflammation" - a clear…
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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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My Valcyte pilgrimage
Eighteen years into illness and previously bedbound, unable to sustain even a five-minute conversation and enduring daily headaches at 7-8/10 severity for up to 15 hours a day, reported that after 18 months on Valcyte they could take frequent 30-45 minute…
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Stem Cell Treatments For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Susan Lucey
Susan Lucey traveled to Panama for stem cell treatment across two visits (the first in May), describing it as the "30 day MS Protocol," and was able to titrate down from 40mg to 5mg of Cortef shortly after her second visit; the account does not specify the…
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GPLC helping with sleep and energy
Takes 750mg of Jarrow GPLC first thing on waking. Reports better sleep and energy, and says heart palpitations have "almost completely resolved" -- an improvement she calls unexpected and describes cautiously, without long-term follow-up on durability.
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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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Arginine + Vitamin C for Long Covid
L-arginine at 1.5g twice daily, modeled on a published arginine-plus-vitamin-C protocol, was started by a long COVID patient who had been unable to work as a programmer since about four months after a March 2022 infection, with severe headaches, chest pain,…
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Ivermectin Lifts a Woman to the Summit
Ivermectin as a 1% topical cream, applied in increasing amounts up to three times daily, was used after about four years of severe long COVID following a 2022 Delta infection. Baseline symptoms included crushing fatigue, exertional breathlessness, chest pain…
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3 day fasting to reset immune system
sb4 went 7 days completely dry, no food or water, then continued 23 more days taking only one or two glasses of water a day, 30 days in total. They felt "horribly sick for the majority of the fast," with nausea, pins and needles, heart palpitations and…
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Water fasting - Can I take my meds?
JES attempted a water fast that was easy for the first 24 hours, then brought on heart palpitations; by the 40th hour they "felt so weak I could hardly work or do anything meaningful" and stopped. No symptom benefit is reported, only the adverse reaction…
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Bad blood? The uncertainty around microclots and Long COVID
Underwent 15 sessions of HELP apheresis and six sessions of plasmapheresis for long-COVID-associated microclots, and remains on anticoagulants years later despite repeated attempts to stop them. He had been severely ill since a COVID-19 infection in late…
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Alice's Story
She recovered from ME/CFS using The MindBody Reconnect, a mind-body nervous-system-regulation method, working with practitioner Clare Caldwell, alongside acupuncture and self-directed calming practices such as time in nature. Alice Bowley was ill for about 4…