It all started with a friend recommending a documentary available on Prime. "What about ME?" ME stands for Myalgic Encephalitis which is one of the many names for whatever the heck is going on. My husband has some valid criticisms of the documentary as a narrative but I highly recommend it for anyone suffering from CFS and anyone who cares about them. One of the worst aspects of CFS is how isolating it can be because going out and socializing becomes exhausting. So it gave me hope to see how widespread this problem is and that there is at least one doctor who has been treating it successfully for decades.
Which leads to Dr Sarah Myhill and her book, pictured below.
I have just started reading the book and the first thing that impressed me is her instruction to CFS patients to skip the theory in the first half and go straight to the things to do if reading the theory is difficult due to CFS brain fog. So I did that. And I am impressed with how much improvement I've seen in just a few weeks.
What part of her protocol am I doing? I've upped my d-Ribose from 5g a day to 10-15g. And increased my B12 to 5g. This has not only brought about a noticeable increase in my energy but is stabilizing my insulin production enough that my various skin tags have shriveled up and fallen off. They aren't supposed to do that on their own so this seems significant to me.
For those who don't want to buy the book, I can recommend checking out her webpage. Here's a link to her section on supplements to take daily even for those not suffering from CFS.
I'll be working my way through the book over the next month or so, and will update my progress. Because there really are a lot of doctors who believe CFS is all psychological and I know how hard that can be.
