new CFS sufferer

[neil25]

I got diagnosed last month, this illness is truly terrifying as everyday goes by i get more and more scared. i think i have it quite severly cos at most i can do a walk for about 10 minutes a day and this is all. My headache and dizziness is my worst symptom along with the fatigue it makes doing anything very difficult. i dont want to be bed bound my whole life! please can anyone offer me some advice as how i can help myself get even a little better?

Is it worth getting the Gupta Programme? i have watched the first three sessions on the website but wasn't sure if this would help me.

Thanks.

[annie]

I am so sorry you feel so horrible, Neil. I do understand, the symptoms do feel frightening, especially at first. Re doing the Gupta programme or the Lightning Process, the only real way to find out is to try and see. Both have had success stories, there are similarities and differences. Gupta is easier on the pocket if that is an issue! Choose one and have a go, you may well be one of the success stories yourself, good luck with whatever you choose to do.

[neil25]

thanks for the reply, i think it just gets scarier everyday there really is no hope.

[JR]

I know it's scary, Neil, but there is MUCH hope. I really recommend this program. I started out totally bed bound, too weak to feed myself. Read my last update here: post3233.html#p3233. Don't despair!

JR
[quote="neil25"]thanks for the reply, i think it just gets scarier everyday there really is no hope.[/quote]

[annie]

neil, there is hope. loads of it, especially as you are so recently diagnosed, much easier to turn it around. i think you may feel better if you decide to do gupta or the lightning process and make a commitment to it. stewing around, having no direction is bound to make you feel worse in every way. bite the bullet and let us know what you are doing. we all know how you feel, if that is any comfort.

[neil25]

hi there, thanks so much for replying you have restored some hope for myself and made my life worth living. i think i will purchase gupta and try it out. just one other question is the dvd avialable from anywhere else than the gupta website?

Neil.

[annie]

i'm pretty sure it is only available from the gupta site. if you got it elsewhere you would not receive the newsletter, nor be able to return it if you wanted to. glad you are feeling more optimisitic.

[i_remember_me]

I totally empathise with your fear and anguish, but take comfort in knowing that the beginning is the very worst of it for the vast majority of people. It's extremely rare that people continue to get worse or stay unwell indefinitely. Recovery is the NORM - remember that! When I was first told by my doctor that there was nothing they could do to help and I had some mysterious, life-changing and stigmatised illness I walked out of the surgery in a complete daze, then spent the next few weeks absolutely distraught and miserable. I pictured an impossibly bleak future. But I adapted and survived - that's what humans do, it's in our genes! I made it through, and so will you. You go into survival mode, but this is actually a double-edged sword. If you subscribe to Ashok's theory (which I 100% do), then your body switches into a state of constant fight or flight which actually perpetuates the symptoms. You can spend too long thinking thinking thinking about "being ill". So the best things you can do are...

1. Relax relax relax. RELAX!
2. Realise that the fear of having no light at the end of the tunnel is very common for newly diagnosed people, but it will soon pass.
3. Find someone supportive to confide in and to have a laugh with.
4. Don't needlessly depress yourself by dwelling on the worst possible outcomes. Think how many times you've feared the worst in the past and it never happened.

I hope that helps and doesn't seem too patronising. As people who've been through the same, trust me when I say we're all rooting for you!

[neil25]

this advice means a lot to me, i know a lot of you have made it through this. its just sometimes i get extremely depressed without any hope. i don't mind if im ever gonna be normal again but would like to feel just a little better. one of my worst symtoms is my dizziness it is so extreme its difficult to walk and my headache is very sore. if i could just have some of these symptoms ease off it would mean i could even function a little.