How it went
Did it last?
- 2 of 6 said the benefit wore off (including the 1 who relapsed).
- 1 of 6 needed to keep doing it 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 | 0 | 0% |
| Near-full | 0 | 0% |
| Substantial | 0 | 0% |
| Partial | 4 | 67% |
| Relapsed | 1 | 17% |
| No benefit | 1 | 17% |
Only 6 accounts. Treat these percentages as anecdotes, not rates.
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | 1 | 0% | |
| Severe | 1 | 0% |
4 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.
How often it comes up
Posts that mention Dichloroacetate (DCA), per 1,000 posts each year. Hover a point for the count.
Show as a table
| Year | Posts mentioning it | All posts | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 184 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 682 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 704 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1,491 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1,708 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2,352 | 0.4 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2,158 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1,431 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 20 | 3,110 | 6.4 |
| 2018 | 125 | 2,201 | 56.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,075 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,581 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | 1,867 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1,166 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1,000 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1,237 | 0.8 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1,019 | 0.0 |
| 2026 (so far) | 0 | 840 | 0.0 |
Posts in the forum threads we archived, 26,806 in all, counted per year. A mention means the post names the treatment, not that the writer took it. These threads all contain a recovery story, so they show what those communities discussed, not everyone with ME/CFS or long COVID. All trends
All 6 accounts
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Treating patients suffering from ME/CFS with Sodium Dichloroacetate (pilot trial)
Sodium dichloroacetate (DCA), 333mg taken twice daily for a combined 666mg per day, was used on an ongoing basis. Illness duration and severity before starting are not stated in the post. They reported that each dose reduced their brain fog and gave them…
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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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From brain fog to clarity in 30 minutes
A five-supplement mitochondrial stack -- ubiquinol, nicotinamide riboside, fursultiamine, dichloroacetate and PQQ -- reportedly clears his brain fog within about 30 minutes of dosing and gets him to "close to normal" function from a mild/SEID baseline. He is…
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Treating patients suffering from (ME/CFS) with sodium dicholoracetate
Dichloroacetate (sodium DCA) was taken at 333 mg twice daily, alongside fursultiamine, nicotinamide riboside and ubiquinol, for about two weeks at the time of posting. The account does not state prior illness duration or severity. After roughly two weeks the…
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Tried Dichloroacetate, Great Energy Return But Chemical Taste to It
XenForo took about 580mg of DCA on two separate occasions and got a marked energy boost lasting from afternoon into the next morning, allowing a late-night concert he couldn't normally manage, but crashed badly afterward and could not reliably reproduce the…
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Combination of Supplements Allows Me to Work and Exercise - But causes extreme Gastritis
Built a roughly 60-item daily supplement stack (B12, NADH, high-dose antioxidants/glutathione, SAM-e, CoQ10, glandulars, ribose, phosphatidylserine and more) over three-plus years of trial and error for CFS, fibromyalgia and Hashimoto's. Says the combination…