@lara64390 I’m not sure. It’s only ever helped like 2-3%. Only way to find out would be to stop it, but I don’t want to change things in case it’s helping. In the past year, every change I have made seems to have negative impact.
@lara64390 Due to the repeated PEM from trialing various dosages, my baseline is now much lower. It’s much easier to trigger PEM. With a lower baseline, my fatigue seems worse as well.
I love art and the stories it can tell.
But messaging matters & bad messaging is just that.
Toxic positivity harms our community regularly by creating a false understanding of ME.
Sadly, we have way too many clinics/orgs contributing to this, centering their own comfort. 1/
Our new study: in 121 people with #LongCOVID, recovery of the autonomic nervous system was delayed after exertion. Longer or more intense activity affected recovery into the next night. HRV may support personalised pacing and predict PEM. @KasperJanssendoi.org/10.1007/s40279…
We’re at a crossroads now, where we can keep placating the ableist onlookers by falsely celebrating what some with ME can do…*
Or we can decide to put the most severe front and centre and find ways to reduce the hour by hour suffering and indignity they deal with.
@lara64390 Yes. I don’t tolerate 6 mg of LDN, but I do tolerate 4.5 Within 12 hours of taking 6, I get PEM. I’ve been on 4.5 mg since October 2020, and didn’t know if it was helping or not. I recently stopped it and I worsened. It’s definitely helping with internal vibrations & restlessnes
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I'm personally motivated to do this project because of my experience with the Truvaga vagus nerve stimulator.
I tried it years ago + 3 other VNS devices over the years and they didn't do anything for me.
I would not have tried again, especially since the device costs $500 ...
1/ 🚨 Big news: @PlzSolveCFS has awarded @RenegadeRes a Catalyst Award to launch SIGNAL - a decentralized platform to test promising therapeutic devices for ME/CFS and Long COVID.
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@kirstler31@AndrewG76201347 I take in the evening: 25 mg at 6 pm and 50 mg at 9 pm. I don’t find it sedating but I also don’t find Benadryl sedating unless it’s IV.
This looks good - a new (free) app for tracking PEM - links to a range of wearables and gives updates during the day (like visible but free). Developed by a university
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@lara64390 Lower cognitive and physical thresholds. And all my comorbidities flare. POTS gets worse, MCAS gets worse. It’s like everything destabilizes at once.
@lara64390 I tried every 7 days, then every 10 days, and by the last month I was doing every 14 days. PEM would last from 6-10 days. Did not try lower than 0.5.
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