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Diary of another ME/CFS patient: natural therapies

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I had exactly this, and I could not get rid of it for years, in spite of trying many anti-fungal creams and anti-fungal drugs.

I then read that sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is a very potent anti-fungal, and I found that dampening and then lightly dusting the fungal infection each day with sodium bicarbonate powder rapidly got rid of the infection. Don't put too much powder on though because it can irritate the skin.
Thank you very much for sharing, I will start today!

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Little Bluestem

All Good Things Must Come to an End
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Getting worse is very common, particularly if you push yourself to your energy limits.
To this end you might want to check out pacing and using anaerobic threshold to determine safe exercise/activity level.