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WoolPippi
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I identified all kinds of things that my body struggles with. The sum of these things made my body collapse in 2008 or left it unable to deal with the bug that causes ME.
I applied personally tailored solutions to any and all of these issues. I will continue to do so even now that...
I'm an engineer and have approached this black box of a disease as such: entertain working theories but only act upon results.
I was bed bound and brainfogged in 2008 and 2009. I took my recovery in my own hands when the doctor said: "There's so much wrong with you, I don't know where to...
I think I am on the mend.
I've had weeks of consistently being better now. I've been running about, doing things, every day. Something’s changed in my mind. In my body. This feels like the real deal.
As I will be away from the forums for sometime now to see how far this goes, and also to live...
The first two months of 2014 I tumbled into a depression.
It was very bad. By the end of February I was suicidal.
I knew it was chemically caused but could not figure out by what. Progesterone, Lithium, Omega3, stopping with Methylation, nothing helped.
Knowing it had a chemical cause was not...
I noticed my daily brainfog has now lifted, it has been better for a year and a half now. I think I can name some things that helped this:
1. HEALTY GUT
I have a strict diet called Homo Optimum. In this you get your energy from fats, not carbohydrates. Because of this I eat very little, thusly...