From anti-viral treatments with Valtrex, Valcyte, and Famvir to addressing the disease with B12 supplementation to correct methylation, has anyone ever gotten better from this disease?
here's a rundown on what I've been going through since my diagnosis:
I’m 26 years old and what began as latent fatigue throughout the day that was manageable to an extent, turned into an illness that’s left me homebound with nothing else to do but research what can be done to help. I’ve tried seeing a CFS specialist and gone through prescriptions of antivirals to bring down my EBV levels, and at the 3 month mark with no real progress, I left unsatisfied and in denial that my CFS may be attributed to another illness.
My course of thought behind this was A.) this disease is bullshit. B.) I’m a young male and this is something that mostly affects women. C.) CFS is very “hot” with naturopaths ready to make a quick buck on someone who is genuinely sick. This refusal to accept my condition just delayed the inevitable, of course and now I’m back to where I started, perhaps even worse off now and am only starting again to feel the aching joints along with the brain fog that I initially complained about. Right now, I’m trying freddd’s methylation protocol, Ibudilast, and a daily nootropic stack (alpha gpc, p21, noopept, piracetam) that I’ve conceived to lift the fog.
I was wondering what anyone here with CFS is currently taking to help with their CFS. I’m clueless as to how I got sick in the first place, as it just came out of nowhere with some pains that I attributed to costochondritis or being sedentary, now it’s systemic. I move and I hear an avalanche of joint popping that makes me feel like an 80 year old.
I’m mainly interested in what anyone else takes to bring down inflammation from joint pain and if you’re taking anything to bring down the viral titers that isn’t prescribed.
I'm fed up with this illness, it's cost me my job and I feel completely abandoned by every medical practitioner that I explain my symptoms to.
Edited by biomimicry, 07 February 2017 - 09:05 PM.