- Name
- Julie Rehmeyer
- Diagnosis
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- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Disease Course Over Time
- After moving to San Francisco Bay area Julie becomes mostly bed bound over time
- Type of Onset
- gradual non-flu like
- Duration
- 11-15 years
- Functionality at it's Worst
- Mostly bedbound
- Treatments That Made A Big Difference
- After taking a trip to Death Valley for 10 days (with none of her possessions) Julies return home revealed how toxic her house was for her. She sold all belongings in her house and moved into another one. Eventually she moved to New Mexico and built a straw bale house. She now practices rigorous mold avoidance and is able to exercise vigorous and work.
- Treatments That Helped
- She's also doing coffee enemas, sauna, juicing -and she finds that running of all things (has to be vigorous exercise!) helps.
- Present State of Health
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- Almost recovered - Able to lead norrmal lifestyle
- Story taken from web - unable to tell
- Practitioner Associated With Recovery
- none
- Suggested Resources
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I will assume that Julie would put Paradigm Change here - http://paradigmchange.me/
Julie is working on a book about her recovery from ME/CFS
Julie has written several pieces on ME/CFS.In one she described her experience with mold avoidance:
When she returned
A Q and A with Julie
Mold Reactivity
Q: What kind of environment were you in when you had your worst malady?
Julie: That’s a good question. When I first got really sick in 2006, I was living in Berkeley. I think that was actually really key. There seem to be particular locations that are really bad for people who are sensitive to mold. Berkeley is one of them.
Q: So you discovered that at the source?
Julie: Yeah. I was initially really skeptical because I’d lived in lots of different places and it never seemed to matter. I’d never gone into a building or something and gotten much sicker. It didn’t seem like this applied to me at all.
Jule Rehmeyer on Complex Illnesses
When she returned
A Q and A with Julie
Mold Reactivity
Q: What kind of environment were you in when you had your worst malady?
Julie: That’s a good question. When I first got really sick in 2006, I was living in Berkeley. I think that was actually really key. There seem to be particular locations that are really bad for people who are sensitive to mold. Berkeley is one of them.
Q: So you discovered that at the source?
Julie: Yeah. I was initially really skeptical because I’d lived in lots of different places and it never seemed to matter. I’d never gone into a building or something and gotten much sicker. It didn’t seem like this applied to me at all.
Jule Rehmeyer on Complex Illnesses
