How it went
Did it last?
- 2 of 25 said the benefit wore off.
- 3 of 25 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 | 11 | 44% |
| Near-full | 4 | 16% |
| Substantial | 6 | 24% |
| Partial | 3 | 12% |
| Relapsed | 0 | 0% |
| No benefit | 1 | 4% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 3 | 33% | |
| Severe | 12 | 58% | |
| Very severe | 6 | 83% |
4 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
All 25 accounts
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Jordan - Long Covid Recovery Story
Credits brain retraining. Jordan was ill 22mo with moderate long COVID and reports a partial improvement. Resigned job from fatigue; regained pet-sitting and socialising.
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Melody's ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID Recovery Story
Melody was infected early in the pandemic, hospitalised with double pneumonia, then bedbound for six months and homebound on supplemental oxygen for two and a half years despite thirteen prescription drugs and multiple specialists. She credits a combination…
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the best treatments I've found
Shanti1 credits this vasodilator/oxygen combination with improving brain circulation and says episodes of feeling oxygen-starved, once frequent, are now rare, describing sustained improvement "over time as underlying conditions addressed." No specific doses…
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I have learnt with this condition people get better from hope, kindness and love, not fear and catastrophe
Credits cognitive retraining developed with an unnamed psychology PhD candidate from Norway who had herself recovered from post-viral fatigue syndrome, after months in a self-organised online pacing support group and a referral to an NHS CFS/ME specialist…
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Mallory's Dangerous Spinal Treatments Eventually Work
Mallory had ME/CFS with several comorbid conditions and was mostly bedbound for around nine years. He pursued two experimental spine treatments: GHK-Cu peptide injections to stabilise his spine, and frequency specific microcurrent for a tethered cord, which…
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Some Patients Are Reporting Recovery from Long COVID (Sherri)
Sherri Klipowicz used a plant-heavy, low-gluten, low-dairy diet, restorative yoga, magnesium and glutathione supplements, and ozone therapy, and worked with an insomnia specialist to fix her sleep. She had been sick with Long COVID since March 2020, and…
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Oda Shares Her POTS and ME/CFS Recovery After 10 Years Using ANS REWIRE
Oda's recovery combined daily thyroxine for diagnosed Hashimoto's hypothyroidism with the ANS REWIRE program (daily meditation and "postural rewiring" videos starting July 2017), gentle home yoga via the Yoga Studio app, one session of Thomas Hanna-method…
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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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Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time
Thomas Overvik, a medical student, attended a three-day Lightning Process course in London in summer 2011 after about nine months of illness that began roughly eight months into medical school in autumn 2010, bringing repeated infections, headaches,…
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My daughter was ill for eight years, lying in the dark, being fed through a tube. Today she is well
Her father Thomas Overvik credits the Lightning Process, taught by phone and then in a course with Live Landmark in November, for her recovery, after the family had resisted trying it for more than six years. She had been ill for about eight years with…
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I was 13 years, and had no energy at all, but now I live my life the way I want to
Recovered through a structured activity-management programme run by a specialist children's CFS/ME service, pairing bursts of exertion with mandatory rest periods, plus sleep medication and a very gradual, multi-year return to schooling that began with ten…
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Sirin Gnadeberg Shares How She Cured Her ME/CFS and POTS
Sirin Gnadeberg added salt to her drinking water starting in April 2016, which significantly improved her POTS symptoms, then took 16 weeks of antibiotics after a Lyme specialist found elevated antibodies to Bartonella, Chlamydia and Mycoplasma (despite…
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If I had believed all the negative things I read on the net, I would not have recovered
Lea attended a three-day Lightning Process course run by Live Landmark after roughly a year of illness that included acupuncture, naprapathy, medical yoga and cutting out gluten and sugar, none of which had helped. Before the course she was diagnosed with…
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For me it was about realising that the mind and body is connected, and learn that I could influence my health through cognitive tools
Recovered through a three-day Lightning Process course, learning "cognitive tools" that he says had "an immediate effect" on his physical and mental health, after care from public and private clinics and multiple doctors and hospital specialists had not…
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Need to delete this. [Deleted]
Was diagnosed with ME/CFS first, then four years later diagnosed with Lyme disease and treated with a combination of pharmaceutical and herbal antibiotics under a Lyme specialist, and separately started cholestyramine with EPA/DHA fish oil after also…
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This Is Why I Quit Exercise Therapy
Graded exercise therapy, prescribed by an NHS specialist, started with five minutes of walking a day and increased weekly, reaching six minutes in week two and continuing upward. She had been unwell for roughly five months, with flu-like exhaustion, joint…
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Fearing Death Was at Hand, Fred Finds an Answer
Fred, a university professor, became severely ill with an acute flu-like onset in 1991 and was homebound by 2006. Valcyte under Dr Lerner's protocol brought him to about 75% functioning within six months, letting him socialise, travel and do home…
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Mestinon, Chronic Fatigue, Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Exercise
After 28 years of never being able to exercise despite seeing top ME/CFS specialists worldwide, and a recent low point involving surgeries, ER visits and a drug reaction, this patient started 180mg/day Mestinon and within weeks felt an urge to run for the…
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Dan Moricoli - On the Path - and Recovering From ME/CFS
Started a heart-rate-monitored graded exercise and pacing program in 2008, beginning with two 5-minute walks every other day with 10-20 minute rest periods, alongside a sleep specialist referral that improved sleep from 2-4 hours to 5 hours nightly, a strict…
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Has anyone achieved remission or recovery from treatment by any doctor?
SOC's daughter took two years of combined antivirals, Valcyte (valganciclovir) and Valtrex (valacyclovir), prescribed by an ME/CFS specialist. Beforehand she had been declining, sitting around activity level 4-5; on the antivirals she rose to about level 8-9…
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Has anyone achieved remission or recovery from treatment by any doctor?
SOC does not name specific drugs or doses, but says antivirals from an ME/CFS specialist lifted them from a severely disabled level of about 1 on a self-rated activity scale to about 3-4 over several years, while a later specialist's broader range of…
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My recovery story
Ian says a specialist identified necrotic "cavitation" lesions in his jawbone and that surgical removal eliminated his years-long feeling of being "chronically poisoned," resolving most CFS symptoms. The first surgery's benefit faded months later when the…
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AcuPips - Original Ear Seed Specialists
AcuPips ear seeds (self-administered acupressure), duration of use and placement not specified. She had post-COVID headaches, with no other long-COVID symptoms or overall illness duration and severity stated. She reports relief within about two weeks of use.…
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Primal Trust testimonials: Carrie Martin
Credits brain retraining. Carrie was ill 7y with severe ME/CFS and reports a substantial improvement. CFS from Lyme; returning to work and socialising.
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My Long Covid Solution: I Feel Like a Different Person
Credits the Lightning Process. Charlotte was ill 7mo with severe long COVID and is described as almost fully recovered. Driving, cooking, socialising within 7 weeks post-course.