- Source of the Story
- Provided to Health Rising
- Resource Type
- Patient Story
- Name
- Lucie
- Diagnosis
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- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Disease Course Over Time
- In her early 50's Lucie just got worse and worse. She had to stop her bicycle rides, had difficulty walking, and cut down her work hours to 2 a day
- Duration
- 11-15 years
- Functionality at it's Worst
- Able to work part-time
- Symptoms
- Extreme fatigue
- Treatments That Made A Big Difference
- NSAID (naproxen) in combination with salt water, compression stockings and pacing.
- Present State of Health
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- Fully recovered - no restrictions at all
- Practitioner Associated With Recovery
- Dr. Rowe
- Story
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Read Lucie's story here - https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2022/11/23/lucies-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-simple-recovery/
- Words of Advice
- Knowing that a crash might be hiding somewhere in the future, I keep a Post-it near my computer screen, a copy of a graffiti I saw in Montreal. Where somebody had written “no hope”, someone else had added a K and a W to transform it to “KnoW hope”.
- Suggested Resources
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Pacing and Orthostatic Intolerance Resources
Read Lucie's story here - https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2022/11/23/lucies-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-simple-recovery/
![ME/CFS lecture | Dr Nancy Klimas | 2011 [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / SEID / New Zealand] - YouTube](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
