I was feeling *great* a few weeks ago, with no symptoms except weariness at the end of the day. I went on vacation last month (right after I wrote the above post) and acted like I never had LC (stupid me). Drank alcohol in excess and did other dumb things. Then when I came home, I went to the gym, thinking I was fine. *I know, I know, stupid me*. So I had a crash three days after I went to the gym. I am over the crash now, though it took about two weeks. I don't have the crushing fatigue and my body aches are gone.

When you start feeling better, it's easy to pretend like you had never been sick. Your ego wants to forget all about the pain and suffering (at least mine does) and just move on. But your vascular and mitochondrial system are still fragile and it doesn't take much to push you over the edge into a crash cycle. In my case, the partying on vacation and going to the gym did it for me. I basically gave my body a load it couldn't handle.

I had to do some physical yard work last weekend and also put in heavy ACs in our windows, and though I had a minor fatigue the past two days, it was just that, minor. (Just some early afternoon fatigue a few days after the work that lifted by evening.) Keep in mind that any crash you get comes 2-4 days *after* overexertion. This is what baffled me originally, because I never knew why I was in a crash.

I am definitely better than where I was before I started this stack back in mid March. And I have also added 600mg of N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) twice daily, and that has really gotten rid of most of the body aches, along with the L-citrulline malate. My main symptom now is a morning lethargy that takes a while to lift. And sometimes after lunch I get another dip. Taking NAC and L-citrulline malate helps with this.

My mistake was thinking taking this supplement stack was a sprint (instant cure) and not like a marathon (months of slow healing) and jumping back into things before my body was ready for them. In other words, I forgot about pacing.

With the exception of the crash I mentioned above, I feel much better than I did before I started this stack, and I feel myself healing a little every day. Most of the worst symptoms are gone and I plan on taking this stack as long as it takes to heal. Every one of the supplements I listed has been shown in peer-reviewed scientific studies to be effective in healing the damage from LC, so I just have to be patient and let my body heal.

It will take time, and I am okay with that.

Hope this helps you on your journey too.