How it went
Did it last?
- 1 of 12 said the benefit wore off: the one who relapsed.
- 1 of 12 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 | 2 | 17% |
| Near-full | 0 | 0% |
| Substantial | 6 | 50% |
| Partial | 3 | 25% |
| Relapsed | 1 | 8% |
| No benefit | 0 | 0% |
By how ill people were
| Severity at worst | How it went | n | Recovered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 2 | 0% | |
| Severe | 6 | 17% | |
| Very severe | 2 | 50% |
2 accounts don’t say how ill the person was.
How often it comes up
Posts that mention Sex hormones (progesterone, estrogen, HCG), 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 | 3 | 682 | 4.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | 704 | 17.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | 1,491 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,995 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2,707 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,566 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2,023 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,381 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | 2,523 | 5.9 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,637 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | 3,318 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,469 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1,871 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2,362 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,176 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1,349 | 3.0 |
| 2026 (so far) | 2 | 899 | 2.2 |
Posts in the forum threads and blog comments we archived, 34,337 in all, counted per year. A mention means the post names the treatment, not that the writer took it. These pages all contain a recovery story, so they show what those communities discussed, not everyone with ME/CFS or long COVID. All trends
All 12 accounts
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I replace ALL my hormones. This brought me back to life.
thingsvarious systematically replaced testosterone, cortisol, thyroid, growth hormone and aldosterone after years of "nightmare"-level fatigue, largely managing it himself because, in his words, "many endocrinologists are shit." He says his energy moved from…
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List of ME/CFS Recovery and Improvement Stories
superboreduniverse is listed moving from severe to mild ME/CFS on high-dose progesterone, maintained at a lower dose long-term; the same entry separately notes she had a 4-year full remission during a pregnancy, suggesting a hormonal link but two different…
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3 Decades of ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, MCS, Lyme End Fast
Claudia treated chronic Lyme disease from 2012-2015 with three years of low-dose Byron White herbal protocols plus a strict elimination diet, then in 2019 did the three-month ANS REWIRE nervous-system retraining program alongside naturopath adjustments that…
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OI/POTS and the menopause
Combined bioidentical hormone therapy - a "healthy dose" of bioidentical progesterone plus topical estriol, topical testosterone, DHEA and pregnenolone - fine-tuned using DUTCH hormone testing. She is a cancer survivor whose ovaries and uterus were removed,…
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Success treating multiple infections with Chlorine Dioxide
Took MMS (chlorine dioxide) for 8 months for ME/CFS with mobility limitations. Illness duration before starting is not given. Went from having difficulty walking on many days to being able to grocery shop, visit the library and take 15-20 minute walks.…
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My start to healing and how Tendonitis/Tendonosis/Bursitis/Gout can overlap and mimic each other
For joint pain including shoulder and hip bursitis, this poster credits bromelain, rutin and parsley as "particularly effective," alongside capsaicin, fish oil and estrogen replacement therapy - the latter she says "saved my kidneys." Presented as clearly…
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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…
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what seems likely to have improved my gut?
After years of gut pain following nearly every meal, he built up a broad supplement stack and reports his gut pain "starting to improve dramatically in the past week," on top of an earlier partial improvement within the first week of starting magnesium. The…
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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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Vasopressin/ADH ... My Story
Added low-dose vasopressin (half pill twice daily) on top of thyroid medication, cortisol, aldosterone, testosterone and DHEA. Says he stopped over-urinating (previously about twice the volume he drank), fatigue improved, and his bench press rose sharply…
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Cured Myself After 4 Years of CFS
Over about four years and more than $50,000 on doctors and supplements, this poster went from lying "almost paralyzed" to calling himself cured, crediting a stack that included DHEA (100mg/day, 200mg on exercise days), Florinef for low aldosterone,…
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Improving steadily on Regimen, added hormones to the list
Runs a large daily regimen -- sodium ascorbate, glycine, lysine and proline at 2-5g per meal, 40,000 IU beta carotene per meal, Lugol's iodine, malic acid, DHEA, pregnenolone, weekly minerals/B vitamins, plus Tindamax and Benicar -- along with periodic…