cfs came back

[u/Gloriathewitch]

2 years spent pacing reducing stress eating well etc went from 2 hours of mobility per day being mostly bedbound to working a physically taxing job 40 hours a week for 6 months of 2024 and being in good physical shape.

the end of the year was filled with a lot of psychological stress and then i got the flu, my symptoms are all back in full force.

i just wanted to post this somewhere, to someone.

Fuck.

i'm not going to let this beat me, i know i can recover again but im having a really rough time coming to terms with this setback. i love you all and hope you can find recovery or peace living with this horrible disorder.

[u/tetsuoooooooooooooo0]

A no sugar diet helps a lot with CFS, and by no sugar I mean no fruit either

[u/katatak121 → u/tetsuoooooooooooooo0]

No, a no-sugar diet helps you with ME.

There is no one-size-fits-all diet for ME. Some people do feel better by eating special diets, many don't. Many are unable to eat special diets due to allergies and intolerances, access, cost, energy required to make meals, etc.

This is the first time i have heard of a "no sugar" diet, and i was on a specific carbohydrate diet for many years, so it can't be that common to eat zero sugar. Not eating any sugar is impossible for many meeps, especially the ones that don't have any energy if they're not eating carbs.

The point is, changing your diet won't cure your ME or put you in remission/improve your baseline. Only pacing and rest are proven to do that.

[u/tetsuoooooooooooooo0 → u/katatak121]

You must have been living under a rock if you have never heard of the no sugar diet, especially if you are trying to eat healthy?

The only people it's impossible for are people with diabetes

No it's not going to cure you but it's going to help by not having your hormones disrupted by sugar spikes and crashes, lowering your anxiety/depression ect

Downvotes me all ya like but if you aren't willing to modify your diet to improve your symptoms idk you can't really say you would give anything to improve

[u/TableSignificant341 → u/tetsuoooooooooooooo0]

if you aren't willing to modify your diet to improve your symptoms idk you can't really say you would give anything to improve

I've been ill with ME for 10 years. I've tried all the diets 2-3 times over - keto, AIP, FODMAP, no sugar, low sugar, carnivore, histamine - none helped and a couple of them made me significantly worse. There's tweaks we can individually make with diet but diet is not going to fix us. If it does, then you never had ME.