I have had ME/CFS since 2007. Over the years I have tried an array of holistic and mainstream medical treatments.
THINGS THAT HELPED
🟢Functional medicine
Also called integrative or naturopathic medicine
Aims to IMPROVE your health by discovering and treating the root cause of your illness rather than MANAGING your illness using symptom suppressing drugs
Diagnosis involves laboratory tests not used by mainstream medicine
Treatment is a combination of diet changes and nutritional supplements
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🟢Acupuncture
Very effective at calming my body and reducing stress/anxiety. I always slept very deeply after a treatment
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🟢Chinese herbs
Helped reduce my sensitivity to supplements
Improved my energy
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🟢Antimicrobial herbs
After taking these I no longer felt horrendously ill 24/7. My dizziness, nausea and general feeling of being poisoned significantly reduced. Movement became easier
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🟢High dose probiotics
Currently taking 55 billion CFU (aiming for 100 billion)
Tummy feels lighter
Sleep improved
Generally feeling better
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🟢Enforcing boundaries
Learning to say no and prioritising my own needs has been crucial to keeping my energy levels stable and avoid crashing
THINGS THAT DID NOTHING
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🟠Yoga
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🟠CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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🟠Meditation
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🟠EFT - emotional freedom technique
Tapping on points on your face to release emotions and trauma
THINGS THAT MADE ME WORSE
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🔴Gluten-free diet
I replaced white, wheat based products with whole grains such as brown rice and quinoa. I gradually developed digestive issues but it took a year before I realised the cause was the gluten-free products. By this time my stomach was so bloated I looked six months pregnant! Within days of returning to eating gluten my bloating significantly decreased & over the coming weeks my energy improved. I later discovered I had SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. The whole grain foods I replaced the gluten foods with had been feeding the bacterial overgrowth causing gas and excessive bloating
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🔴Dr Lam
I have been bedbound for 2.5 years as a direct result of his treatment
www.drlamcoaching.com
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🔴Physio - GET - Graded Exercise Therapy
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🔴Toxic relationships
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🔴Not listening to my body
Ignoring my symptoms and using my willpower to push through
Being pressured into treatments I felt were not appropriate
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KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
I regularly ask questions to the ME/CFS community via Instagram stories, typically seeking peoples knowledge and experience on a specific topic. Their words of wisdom are then complied into a short video which is posted on KZitem and Instagram
View the videos here
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