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Thankyou so much for your reply!This is Amazing information!I have never heard of this before.I did hear someone on another site talking about basically just drinking water,fruits and veggies to cleanse the body to help.I am kind of desperate now because it has been so long with no help from any specialist.I am just taking 75 mg of synthroid now and I just started taking plaquenil.My Primary gave me Plaquenil to test out because he thinks I may a an autoimmune that is not showing up in my bloodwork.We have a ton of Lupus in my Family,but who knows.I am going to try NO out though and look into more.I just don't know what I am going to do because of the trunk of my body.My whole body is a mess,but the lack of strength in my sternum/diaphram and pelvis is the worse.It is both muscle and nerve damage.My belly has also lost sensation.I just think Covid is the only thing that could bring on something so weird.Before I became ill I was having severe periods for years and was anemic.That is why I had to get an iron infusion.I was tired and weak and I know If covid got me I had no chance to fight it off.I wish there was a way to get my nerves back up and working properly.My vagus nerve was definitely attacked and I think that is definitely contributing to alot of my symptoms too.The Neurologists I have met with don't know anything about the Vagus nerve and that is supposed to be their specialty.It is frustrating.
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Iron is needed for our red blood cells to carry oxygen, but when inflammation is present, the liver retains iron to avoid the negative bacteria being feed iron. From National Institute of Health: “In anemia of inflammation, you may have a normal or sometimes increased amount of iron NIH external link stored in your body tissues, but a low level of iron in your blood. Inflammation may prevent your body from using stored iron to make enough healthy red blood cells, leading to anemia.”
Below are excerpts from Medical News Today on how iron levels are reduced during inflammation:
Altered availability of iron affects the levels of hemoglobin in red blood cells (erythrocytes) that transport oxygen around the body. In the more severely affected groups, hemoglobin remained low up to 90 days post-infection.
Low serum iron, high serum ferritin and high serum hepcidin are characteristic of inflammatory anemiaTrusted Source, which is common with many illnesses, and leads to fatigue, weakness, reduced cardiovascular performance and exercise tolerance, and impaired learning and memory capacity.”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/do-low-iron-levels-explain-long-covid-symptoms#Why-study-iron-levels-after-COVID-19?
NO is likely an important mediator of the anemia of chronic disease in humans.
https://jag.journalagent.com/tjh/pdfs/TJH_26_4_197_200.pdf
I reviewed Synthroid and Plaquenil on drugs.com for interaction with arginine and found no interaction.
“No interactions were found between arginine and Synthroid.”
https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions/arginine-with-synthroid-
Listing of drugs that interact with arginine: (Does not include Plaquenil)
https://www.drugs.com/drug-interactions-all/arginine,l-arginine.html?letter=P
I would recommend focusing on the vegetables that have nitrate with citrus fruit to produce nitric oxide. If you take an arginine supplement, I would recommend starting at one gram. I always start low with all new supplements and see how I react and then I can increase it slowly.
If you would like more details on what I have been doing, feel free to private message.