Comments on: Dr. Sarah Myhill’s CFS Treatment

By: Maynard

Maynard — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:50:19 +0000

I was thinking, an elimination diet shouldn’t really do you any damage… It’s the only effective way to spot allergies - and there’s not much point spending money on supplements if you’ve got a wheat allergy and an addiction to pasta keeping you fatigued…

I’d be very intruiged as to why you got a bad reaction… I can’t suggest this is the case, but from my experience - especially with the Yasko protocol - sometimes you know something’s working because it makes you (initially) much worse…

Like they say, the symptoms of being ill are usually a sign of your body healing; so I wonder if you just went cold-turkey on a major food allergy and that could be something worth investigating again a little more gently.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:41:32 +0000

i havent personally tried this out. Im still doing the yasko protocol. Im having some improvement, but its kind of plateaud.
Also waking up early and going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day is helping alot to. Ive been sleeping so good since ive been doing that.

By: Louis Duran

Louis Duran — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:17:25 +0000

Rachel. What about the vitamin supplements suggested in this blog post? Did those have any affect? It sounds like you were being treated by more than just the vitamin regimen above. Can you comment on whether that was helpful for you?

By: Rachel M

Rachel M — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:14:11 +0000

I was made more ill by Sarah Myhill’s treatment. She put me on an elimination diet that did damage to my digestive system.
T still have not recovered from that.
I also found vitamins from other brands like the “foodsource” or “Solgar” brand easier to digest and giving more help than the ones she gave out.
This was my personal experience.

On another subject; A lot of the recent ideas she had about Mitochondria and blood flow to the brain are taken from other doctors like Dr Goldstein and Peckerman who originally came up with them.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:43:22 +0000

Dr Myhill’s site is excellent. The information she gives makes a lot of sense. I found that CoQ10 had a definite beneficial effect.

By: Maynard

Maynard — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:02:03 +0000

She’s also made me much more aware of pacing… My old tendancy was to try and walk and slowly build up fitness/energy whenever I felt able…

This always felt like it worked, but year after year, I was still not really progressing; too many ups and downs…

So this time round I’m only increasing activity when I feel 99% at rest, and then, only at a very slow, steady rate; doing less than I feel the urge to on good days, just to make sure I’ve always got enough energy left over each day to repair what my body needs to.

By: Maynard

Maynard — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:58:35 +0000

This is the package of supplements I’ve been on since December; along with the full range of multivitamins, minerals, vitamins C & D and omega-3 & 6… (High dose B Vitamins, as found in some multi’s, seem to be important here too - in fact, when I first started taking larger levels of B1, B2, B5, [activated] B6, in the BioCare ones Mrs Myhill supplies, apart from my urine turning illuminous yellow, I felt a very healthy, energised feeling which would last a few hours after taking my morning vitamins…)

Progress so far with these supplements has been promising… I felt I responded to them very quickly at first - especially the Ribose… Then I felt I plateaued for a while; half expecting to crash again, as tends to happen whenever I’ve taken anything energy boosting in the past.

Hasn’t happened though, and progress generally seems to go in short bursts, followed by plateaus.

Taking regular FIR saunas (I picked one up off ebay for £90) and sorting out chronic hyperventilation seem to be important additional steps, as toxins or HVS may have been implicated in mito function going slow in the first place - so I can’t tell exactly how much progress is down to supp’s and how much is down to those extra measures; but overall I know I’m on the up now; and as I was saying in another post earlier, I still get many symptoms, but my days are more consistent and I haven’t had any of the really unpleasant, sick, too-tired-to-breathe type of fatigue for some months now, (used to be a daily occurance!).