I’ve surveyed over 525 people. Here’s how most people recovered:
- Fasting (usually for more than 48 hours)
- Treatments with anti-microbial properties - certain supplements, certain prescription drugs, and HBOT.
Effective treatments are usually double-edged swords that will cause harm to some people. Currently, no testing exists that would help predict the outcome of any particular treatment. So, patients have to take a trial and error approach to figure out what helps and what causes harm.
Recovery rates are low, e.g. 7%-8% are mostly recovered (able to work their old job without accommodations, no or low complaints about remaining symptoms). This is likely because people aren’t trying the treatments that do things. Only 5.8% of the people surveyed report trying high pressure HBOT, which is the most proven treatment.
What might be going on
Patients have an infection of some sort but we don’t know what it is.
Take pneumonia for example, which is often caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae. This bacteria commonly lives in healthy people without problems. However, for reasons that we don’t yet fully understand, they cause problems in some people and are therefore pathogenic.
Other microbes such as fungi and viruses also have this property- they live in healthy people without problems but sometimes turn pathogenic. The microbes responsible for Long COVID and post-vax (vaccine injury) likely resided in the body well before illness began. Everybody has microbes living inside them and typically they only cause minor problems. For example, fasciculations (involuntary rapid muscle twitches that are too weak to move a limb) existed before Long COVID and post-vax as there has been a condition called Benign Fasciculation Syndrome. Chronic illness sufferers just happen to have a long list of problems (of varying severity) while healthy people have a very short list of low-impact problems.
Sufferers don’t have the exact same combination of microbes so that’s why their problems are different.
Treatments that have an effect
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For a list of supplements, see this post:
- For a list of prescription drugs, see the slides for the Protocol video (in the video description).
Implementation
- Try treatments one at a time.
- Start with low dosages before moving up to the intended dosage. This is to reduce your risk.
- Discontinue treatment early if symptoms are going the wrong way. The treatments that work in some people will cause harm in others.
I highly recommend that you find competent medical help.
Unfortunately, there is not a single medical practitioner that I would confidently recommend right now. They haven’t yet figured out that treatments are double-edged swords. That idea is bad for medical practitioners because it’s not as sexy as a miracle cure. There’s no money to be made or clout to be gained in telling people that treatment is mediocre and has risk (even if it would eventually lead to recovery in some people).
If you care about safety, then you should become your own doctor and really know what you’re doing. Unfortunately, it will take work. I’ve written a few primers (primer ) on treatments like ivermectin but those primers don’t cover most treatments.
In practice, most people recovered by doing treatments without really knowing what they’re doing. That’s how I recovered. We usually don’t hear about the unlucky people because their posts don’t get upvoted on Reddit and because people don’t like to post their failures.
If you have limitations that get in the way of becoming a competent doctor, then you can stick with supplements and some of the treatments with a primer (e.g. HBOT, fasting).
If you have trouble getting access to prescription drugs or other treatments, see the Dallas Buyers Club video. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
What about better treatments?
It would be great if Long COVID and post-vax were easier to treat. Right now it just doesn’t exist.
I’m frustrated that bad actors continue to push miracle cures that don’t pan out. The reality is that patients have already tried a long list of things. Some patients have gone as far as manufacturing BC007 and GS-44 so that they get access to experimental drugs. Many crazy things have already been tried. It’s just that there hasn’t been much of a systematic effort to track patient outcomes until recently.
Before you get excited about something, check to see if people have already tried it. There’s survey data on the popularity of 235 treatments here:
I’m not going to lie to you because I am not trying to sell you anything. There are things that make recovery hard. Hopefully things get easier in the future… but until then, this is the best that we have right now. Fortunately, people are recovering.
Closing thoughts
I am mostly recovered and I experienced survivor’s guilt. Survivor’s guilt is a good problem to have and I hope more people recover like I did.
I quickly realized that what worked for me doesn’t work for most people. 
For the same reason, other people’s individual recovery stories probably won’t help you. It is what it is. However, when we look at a large collection of recoveries, then we can see if there are patterns to recovery.
Full disclosure
There is a chance the approach outlined in this post is erroneous because patients are misreporting what happened to them. But, if you are going to try treatment anyways, then I believe that this is one of the safer approaches to treatment.
If you don’t want to take risk, then see this post for information on safe treatments that alleviate symptoms.
This. It took me a while to realize that feces can rise to the top instead of floating to the bottom.