On a personal note, I can add that the past two weeks were grueling for this still recovering patient, with a visit from guests who didn't even stay here, but we had too good a time and then a week where I had to crunch the taxes from all the ways I messed up from being sick.

I tried something new and had a dramatic uptick in the pace of my recovering back to a good baseline. Because of benfotiamine. I have DH on this form because it's high absorption. After several nights of lousy sleep, I added 900 mg of "benfo" daily, for two days, and my sleep is back and I had an easy time running all these errands on a Monday. (This is the NOW brand, with BenfoPure, which is a fat-based form (found in garlic!) which lingers in the bloodstream longer. Recommended for the treatment of long term exhaustion.)

I was impressed and ordered more. Needed for a targeted rebuild of mitochondria, which is likely the source of DH's CFS/ME, my autoimmune exhaustion, and viral syndromes like Long COVID.

Sick mitochondria struggle along because there's not enough thiamine to keep up with demand. We are overworking our "staff" and they can't work as hard as they need to.

Then, nothing works as it should. My five months of bed rest might have been cut short if I had this much information then.