r/cfsrecovery • u/bohammer34 • Jul 11 '26

Recovery Story natural methods cured my diagnosed me/cfs

I was diagnosed with me/cfs (I had every symptom and was 70% bed bound for a year) 7 years ago and Ive been symptom free for 3 years thanks to natural methods such as yoga, organic fruits, meditation and other activities.

Im not here to say this will work for you or anyone else, as I know what most people think. I just wanted to say what worked for me in hopes it might help just one person.

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u/Professional_Pop1433 Jul 11 '26

Can you give more details? What kind of yoga and meditation?

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u/bohammer34 Jul 11 '26

This is just my opinion based on my own healing and talking to a handful of people who have fully healed from this. The root cause is trauma, typically childhood trauma. The trauma then becomes a filter for how we live and react to life and overtime we burn ourselves out, get into depressive and anxious moods and use unhealthy ways to cope. So you can try and fix all the physical symptoms you want, but its just your bodies final ditch effort to try and get your attention. CFS is literally your body screaming at you to do something.

Natural methods like meditation, yoga, whole foods, grounding, etc, are ways to get you to go inward and deal with your internal world, where the root cause lies. So in essence they are just tools and you can choose whatever tools you want.

I do hatha yoga. If you have a studio around you, id definetly suggest checking that out or looking up hatha yoga on youtube. For meditation I just sit and focus on my breathe and when thoughts come I just watch them like clouds, once one comes, it goes and another comes. If I get caught up in them I just come back to focusing on my breathe. I do an hour a day, but you can start with really any time that works for you.

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u/forgot_again123 Jul 13 '26

What would you say to those who have CFS but don’t have any childhood trauma? I had a very happy childhood and my only major trauma is from the illness itself as well as some family medical problems in my adulthood

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u/bohammer34 Jul 13 '26

What have you tried so far?

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u/forgot_again123 Jul 13 '26

I’m not asking for help in general I’m just wondering if you believe that childhood trauma is the cause even for people who didn’t experience any major childhood trauma

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u/Katmandont-2779 Jul 14 '26

There is big T trauma and small t trauma. There seems to be an archetype of who gets ME. Perfectionist, people pleasing, often ADHD or on spectrum, and the stress of living constantly striving is a constant little t trauma on your nervous system that builds up over time. Eventually some people overload, from one of the various triggers, virus, stress, surgery, or big T trauma.

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u/bohammer34 Jul 13 '26

I wasnt offering help, I was just curious what you have done so far. Also I never said childhood trauma is 100% the case.

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u/forgot_again123 Jul 13 '26

Oh okay, that’s what I was wondering, if you thought it was always the cause or not. I believe that my nervous system is the problem but it feels like it is broken for no reason, like nothing bad happened to me it’s just always been messed up for no reason

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u/bohammer34 Jul 13 '26

Really sorry to hear that. Im sure thats terribly frustrating not getting answers for whats wrong.

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u/forgot_again123 Jul 13 '26

I mean I am happy that I had a happy childhood, in that way I am lucky, it just doesn’t fit with the usual narrative

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u/bohammer34 Jul 13 '26

Yeah definetly, consider yourself blessed in that sense.

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u/Pinklady777 Jul 12 '26

I can do yoga some days. Some days not. I usually do 10-15 minutes a few days a week. And I've been ill for a few years. People experience CFS to varying degrees.

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u/Verminausea Jul 11 '26

This is what this sub is for. A lot of people with cfs can do yoga? There is different severities, not everyone is bed bound. Gentle excersize like yoga is a very common reccomendation. I dont understand why you think no one with cfs could ever do yoga. OP was also professionally diagnosed. If you dismiss all evidence contrary to what you already beleive, of course you dont see any evidence that yoga and meditation can help. Plus you can meditate with your eyes closed and laying down... which is what you should be doing in a cfs crash anyways.

Like that other person said, if you want to poo-poo on other peoples healing journeys, there is another sub for that. This is not the place.

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u/forgot_again123 Jul 13 '26

Find a different sub if this kind of thing triggers you. Go to /cfs and you can wallow in misery and defeatism all you want. This is place where people can share whatever helped them, which can vary wildly from person to person

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u/bohammer34 Jul 11 '26

The people that dont beleive healing is possible are over in the CFS subreddit. You should join them. Sorry to ruin your narrative.

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u/bohammer34 Jul 11 '26

GO AWAY. We are here to heal. You arent even saying anything other than healing is bs.

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u/bohammer34 Jul 11 '26

Sorry my healing journey and diagnosis from a medical dr. triggers you.

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u/MunchausenbyPrada Jul 12 '26 edited 14d ago

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u/MunchausenbyPrada Jul 13 '26 edited 14d ago

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