Go from Surviving to Thriving.
After a very intense and emotional 4.5-year roller coaster ride my turning point came after a bad crash sent me to the hospital where I was completely bedridden for over a month unable to even turn over in bed. Luckily, that's where I met a doctor gave me information (and along with that - hope) that would be key to my recovery.
In this KZread Channel, I break down the science behind the root cause that was driving my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related debilitating symptoms (severe fatigue, PEM, migraines, insomnia, intense heart palpitations, POTS, body tremors, muscle pain, and much more), as well as what I've done to heal myself from all these symptoms.
REMINDER: I am not a medical doctor or therapist. I am sharing my own experience and research. My video content is for information and educational purposes only. Please consult with your medical professional.
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So so sooo true!! I used to wake up super tired, angry, anxious, sad and with physical symptoms. As I've been recovering my mental state has changed and I wake up with more energy and positive mind, still getting physical symptoms most of the days but I know it will eventually get better too.
Dude was hopping on international flights 3 months after being severe? Lol
Make one for fatigue dizziness and brain fog please 🙏 when I have pain I have more awakeness and energy when I don’t have pain I have fatigue dizziness brain fog no win situation sometimes
I just realized i would often feel this void if i wasnt consumed by something or someone and now im easy either way, it's actually one of the coolest things about this journey..
These videos always uplift me when I get really down with this illness
I have CFS. I've been married for 5 years. The disease was at its worst in 2022. I have thought of giving up my marriage as it has been so hard dealing with my illness and having to tend to my partners needs. There are days when I have no sexual desire. This can turn into months. It's quite frustrating for my partner, who is trying to understand this condition. Then i absolutely have no energy.... i can't do any house chores. There are days when I am sad... i think it's unfair on my partner. I just think he could be happier with someone else. We dont have any children.
This sounds hard! I do think these negative thoughts and feeling guilty keeps your danger mode up. Your partner should help you and should give you the feeling you’re safe. I closed my relationship and it was heartbreaking first but eventually it helped me to build up from 0 again. My partner just drained me, only wanted her needs met and didn’t understand what I need or dive into my disease, she didn’t take weight of my shoulders, which was a big red flag, and there wasn’t much of help from my partner, she didn’t cheer me on and help me, it was exhausting. Not saying you should quit. But setting boundaries is definitely important. You are more than your relation. You need to move from people pleaser to self pleaser. Putting you on 1 or you won’t recover. Those are my learnings. You should also work on why you’re not putting yourself first, from which trauma’s ur personality traits originate from and you can start to understand your thoughts and feelings better. This can help lower your danger mode and process trauma and future emotion or trauma better! EAET and PRT are Harvard proven to work for CFS. emotional awareness and expression therapy and Pain retraining therapy really helps improving your chance of recovering from 5% to 75% according to Harvard study’s. Saying its about learning yourself, processing emotions or what unprocessed emotions you have, learning to process them in a good and safe manner, recognising false core beliefs and personality traits and how they are connected to your childhood and past trauma’s. This can really help you understand your thoughts and this really helped me make super fast steps in healing CFS! Dr. Howard Schubiner talks about this in Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s podcast. “How to treat chronic pain & trauma without medication”. Really worth watching!!
Thank you for sharing about the value of learning to enjoy being alone! Learning to love ourselves teaches us how to love others.
The between aera is more difficult then expected. It was easier to be in my bubble. I feel lonelier now. I don't even know if I want to reconnect with some old friends, because I changed so much and they treat me like the person I used to be. I don't understand why they are without "respect" and then I remember that I had no boundries and was always nice before I got really sick. In my bubble I kind of forgot how fast life can be. Now when I see more people everybody is on vacation, getting married, getting their second child, building houses, doing crazy hobbies. Not being confronted with it so often was better for my mental health.
I am suffering from CFS, but i have reached the stage of managing, can i marry or not.
Hey Miguel! Thank you so much for this. I lost my mum and then was diagnosed with cancer three months after she passed. I was my mums full time carer for four years. I was exhausted and mentally shot to death, then with cancer treatment in top it was all such a shock to my system, my body shut down. I’m now bed ridden most days and can hardly walk. Since a little girl I have been over sensitive and things usually affect me deeply. I feel very vulnerable at the moment. Listening to you however has given me a glimmer of hope. Not a lot if I’m honest because I’ve tried so much to get rid of this and nothing has worked. I now have an over active immune system which a lot of people with this condition have. I think working on your immune system along with your over sensitive nervous system is really great idea. Thank you 🙏
IM 13 and I can not stop it can u pls help me PLS I DONT WANA LIVE LIKE THIS
Thanks for the interview. I was wondering what happened with the dairy allergy? Did it go away and if so, how did you do it?
Good informative video. Perfection has been a part of me. We don't want to fail and also look good in the eyes of people, brought up or groomed that way. It puts lots of stress on the body and mind and we don't enjoy the journey of the task or life in general. Everyday is different and how we respond daily is important. Learning and recovering. Thanks a lot, Miguel.
Dear Susanne I am proud of you for the effort and follow-up and the positive spirit you had to return to health.
I experienced a tremor the other day and I called my neighbour thinking it was an earthquake 😢. You have explained it well. Thanks
So good! I’m loving this channel
So helpful!
So helpful!
Thank you for sharing
Can you go into detail if ppl make any drastic diet changes / supplements to help with recovery? Or is it just basic Whole Foods diet? I feel the stress of figuring out what to eat is more pressure on the nervous system. Thanks!! :)
I wanted to download the pdf files and saw an option for Paypal, but the link doesn't take me to Paypal. My only option is to enter my credit/debit card info, which I don't want to do. Anyway I can pay by Paypal? Thanks!
Thank you Miguel for all the support. Your explanation are so helpful.
How do you know you might have it? Is there some kind of indication with in some of your blood work? Anything?
I did suspect cfs because all my life i couldnt just stand around without moving and now i have exacerbations when standing up and the only thing that will stop it is prednisone. Thank you
Hi sir!! I'm 27 years old, I've been fatigued in over 6 years and symptoms like dizzyness and brain fog is progressive I haven't diagnose to CFS cause lack of consultation. Do I able to treat this frogressive fatigue? As far as I know CFS is rare condition in warm tropical country here in Philippines.
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Yepp thats me 😮❤
Thank you so much I was terrified what was happening with me this video really helped me
Does a daily cold shower help?
Why o got worse ? Is is because of nervous system reated on trauma , i cant even been with my mother anymore ( she is routcause) i got so much pain Cant even see Tv anymore without PEM
It feel like inflammation in my brain , its that becoaude or nervsystemet also or
Excellent video. Thanks Miguel. First learning how you got cfs and then adopting a holistic approach of proper diet, sleep, reducing stress and giving time to the body to heal. You rightly said, 'The mindset that got you sick cannot be the mindset that gets you out of this illness'.
I'm 22. My dizziness started in my first term in engineering. Right at the start of 2023 I was dismissed by doctors and told to "rest and try to stress less" That only fueled my anxiety because I was so sure that this wasn't normal and the only conclusion my stressed and overwhelmed brain could come to is that I must be sick. My dizziness was constant, there was no break. Day, Night in bed, shower, sofa, everywhere and ESPECIALLY outside of my house. It got worse and worse and for all this time doctors refused to do any tests because there wasn't anything wrong with my body. But I was scared for my life and fought tooth and nail 24/7 to "think my way out of it" There just was a logical solution some problem with my back or with my electrolytes or whatever. This made me overanalyze a lot and not at all take a step back that was the worst thing I could've done. I quit my job for the summer of 23 because I couldn't do it, it was too much. Moved back in with my parents, and suddenly got even more time to think, spent that whole summer just thinking and thinking and progressively getting worse and worse. Then I got in touch with a doctor in august 2023 that did some neurological and blood test and came to the same conclusion that there wasn't anything wrong. And at this point I had totally given up, there was no energy left. I thought "let's try this idiotic theory that this is just stress and if I die I die. and that's unfortunate" So i started anti-depressants to give me some help to combat the feelings that came from having no social life or life in general, and to combat the anxiety. I just took a leap of faith and decided to trust my doctors, did loads of mindfulness exercises because that was good apparently. And as hard as it was I tried to "fight" back gradually exposing myself to stuff that was too anxiety-inducing normally (it was horrible). And within 3 months I started trying to go to the gym, It was very back and forth. And at the start of 2024, I started going to a therapist in conjunction with all these other things. Fast forward to August in 2024 and I barely have dizziness anymore, I have some flair-ups but I'm confident that if I continue down this path it will get even better. It's easier to deal with if I get a flair-up every once in a while and to play down in comparison to earlier when it was constant. Some days I even forget about my dizziness and only people who have gone through the same thing understand how mad that is. So my advice to anyone in the same position, get yourself checked out to the best of your ability as soon as possible. And if there isn't anything wrong, try your absolute hardest to hold on to that there isn't anything wrong. Distract yourself, its the controlling of the fear and the fear itself that creates this upset and feeds the condition. Without a doubt the most horrible thing I've gone trough, Don't wish this upon anyone.
What a great video…Yet again, so relevant! 👏Thanks Miguel.🙏🏼
This helped thank you
Are muscle spasms normal on the ribs and back?
Thanks Miguel for giving us lots of hope.
I’m all healed up from a terrible couple years of long COVID that was torture beyond my comprehension at the time. I used these methods you’re teaching to heal and it still just boggles my mind how fouled up I was from an overactive nervous system. Toughest battle of my life. Thank you for all the content brother.
How'd you "heal up"?
Had no idea high cortisol turns down the thyroid. My Endocrinologist CERTAINLY doesn’t know this! No winder she cant get my meds adjusted and absorb at s cellular level and i still feel awful. Brain retraining has helped me so much. Was bedridden for 2 years and can now go to a busy shopping street and be ok for a short time. Huge progress
My only problem is brain frog and I don’t get any bodily sensations where do I go from here?
Do you have anything for being angry? For me anger is the biggest one, I got over fear pretty quick but anger took its place very quickly. I get angry at everything and everyone, I assume it’s one of the symptoms and it gets pretty intense.
Thank you, lots of good points from Holly too.
Much of it is triggered childhood complex trauma. Diagnosis is 90 percent of cure. Nervous system freezes with bad parents in the mind. Love.
I have 'snow' and blurry with flashes . Does this go???
Your content is very reassuring that healing is possible ❤
I never thought my gut ibs issues were because of cfs, now after this video and talked about it with the coaches on the program, a lot of things make sense. I had a crash three months ago because my nutrition was so bad plus my HSNS my body collapsed, now recovering, still having digestive issues and adjustment periods of days but getting better
My vibrations are below my breasts. I had cortizone injections for a spine problem (but it didnt' help). Now this...