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The only time I went into complete remission was when I made a serious attempt to rehydrate. I cut down on coffee (no more than three cups a day) and made sure to drink approx. two quarts of water a day. Within two months I was symptom free. Unfortunately I had a work problem (my management at NASA had decided to get rid of me) that caused me to go into several grueling work cycles that resulted in yet two more relapses and I have never again gotten to the level of health I enjoyed for that short time in the fall of 1992.
I remark that I was very dehydrated from years of alcohol abuse and drinking huge amounts of coffee (22 cups a day). I was already two years sober and two years into the CFS (which started overnight following several months of a protracted pneumonia) when I made the decision to try to drink enough water to maybe make a difference. I may not have had the determination to do this without the support of Dr. Batman-Gehlij, an Iranian physician with a published book on the essential role of water in the human body. (When I started to drink coffee again because of my career crisis he fired me!)
Later, in 1994 following the prescriptions off a specialist in ME/CFS I took loads of supplements, vitamins, amino acids, colloidal silver, injections of royal jelly you name it but all this was as nothing compared to the restorative effect I had gotten from simply rehydrating. (Well a summer of a great romantic relationship with a lot of "bedrest" was key too in this recovery.)
I remark that I was very dehydrated from years of alcohol abuse and drinking huge amounts of coffee (22 cups a day). I was already two years sober and two years into the CFS (which started overnight following several months of a protracted pneumonia) when I made the decision to try to drink enough water to maybe make a difference. I may not have had the determination to do this without the support of Dr. Batman-Gehlij, an Iranian physician with a published book on the essential role of water in the human body. (When I started to drink coffee again because of my career crisis he fired me!)
Later, in 1994 following the prescriptions off a specialist in ME/CFS I took loads of supplements, vitamins, amino acids, colloidal silver, injections of royal jelly you name it but all this was as nothing compared to the restorative effect I had gotten from simply rehydrating. (Well a summer of a great romantic relationship with a lot of "bedrest" was key too in this recovery.)
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