Health Rising’s recent series of recovery stories have presented some of the more unusual pathways (unusual protocol, mitochondrial drug, nebulized hydrogen peroxide) people with ME/CFS have used to recover. Up from the Ashes: James’s Severe ME/CFS...
“I didn’t hold back, I tried just about everything from the Keto diet to IV Ketamine, an hallucinogenic that physically repairs the brain. I truly believe that I have found the perfect combination of therapies to help relieve the majority of the fatigue...
An MD with ME/CFS does a deep dive into the research – and lights upon an unusual drug that works for him. The first blog in a series highlighting the different ways people have recovered or are recovering featured James’s remarkable improvement from a...
I’d been corresponding with Frank, James’s father, for several years. His son, a former emergency room doctor, had a very severe case of ME/CFS, and Frank had been beating the bushes to find anything that could help. Nothing, however, was working. Recently, though, I...
Paul Garner’s recovery story from long COVID has met with almost universal dismay and anger from the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. Garner, after all, was something of a champion for long COVID and ME/CFS. An infectious diseases specialist who had...
In 2015, Dean Echenberg, MD, PhD, a former public health official and Director of Disease Control in San Francisco at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had a question. His own course of ME/CFS had been anything but smooth. Echenberg had experienced years of illness...
