Positives

• A patient who completed the Gupta Program for Long COVID said her anxiety dropped from “11 out of 10” to “basically non-existent” after finishing the program patient blog.
  
  
• One patient reported the program healed her shortness of breath, fast heart rate, dizziness, and many of her vision problems while she was actively practicing patient blog.
  
  
• She progressed from being housebound and spending 95% of her day in bed to leaving home for 1-2 hours daily and walking 10-15 minutes on good days patient blog.
  
  
• One patient who started brain-retraining therapy described going “from very severe to very mild in about 3 weeks” Reddit.
  
  

Negatives

• After six months of consistent Gupta practice, one patient hit “a wall” and experienced a crash, leading her to add complementary somatic approaches rather than rely on brain retraining alone patient blog.
  
  

Hurdles & Side Effects

• One patient admitted she “never loved rounds,” the program’s core repetitive practice, calling it “super repetitive by design” though she acknowledged it was effective patient blog.
  
  
• Brain-retraining programs typically require daily commitment for months and have been criticized in the ME/CFS community for implying patients have caused their own illness MEpedia.