Reply To: Recovery

Physical therapy is very important if you do not yet have the strength to be active regularly. Activity, without overexertion, is important to recovery. If you doing it entirely alone, the concern is that you may not be doing enough to optimize your recovery. When I started outpatient therapy, I barely had the strength to get to the therapist and back home. I spent most of time between sessions resting up for the next one. But I did it twice a week for months until I felt I no longer needed it for improvement.

CIDP is distinguished from GBS in the profile of the progression of the didease. GBS reaches maximum progression in eight weeks or less, typically about four weeks. CIDP progresses more slowly, although a rapidly progressing case like mine will appear to be GBS at first.

If you can manage it, professional physical therapy from a therapist familiar with GBS is highly recommended. Just one or two sessions a week will help you recover.