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Anyone using Nicotine patches for Long Covid?

Posted by tgroff @tgroff, Apr 19, 2023

There is lots of discussion on Facebook Long Covid forums about nicotine patches helping with long covid symptoms after a few days of adjustment to the patches. Any thoughts on this?

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wilsonanderson | @wilsonanderson | Aug 6, 2024
In reply to @cwojo2 "After contracting covid in early January 2021 I have been out without my sense of smell..." + (show)
@cwojo2

After contracting covid in early January 2021 I have been out without my sense of smell for over three years now. That seems to be the only lingering symptom, but I am definitely willing to try the nicotine. I am somewhat afraid of the side effects as I have not been a smoker for over 40 years. I have read on here that some people use the gum and some use the 7 mg patches. Does anyone have advice for someone just missing their lack of smell?

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I am following the protocol of Italian researchers to, I hope, help restore my sense of smell lost with LC over 4 years ago. The product used is a very finely ground PeaLut called Glialia, which is a powder you keep under your tongue for 10 mins. designed to dissolve and pass the barrier between the body/blood stream and the brain. Since I’m so long without smell I spent the first month taking 2 sachets per day along with 1 alpha lipoic acid 600 mg pill, and smell training. I used to consider myself lucky if I had one smell a day, at the weekend I was conscious of say 4…so bit better. Food not smelling yet though! Not 100% sure if Epitech the manufacturers are selling in USA but I do know I GB company was selling to US. Try looking things up thru Uk charity Abscent ( though changed their name this year you’ll find a link)

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elizafb | @elizafb | Aug 14, 2024
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@dloos

I tried nicotine patch three times.
I was hopeful because others with my symptoms had gotten a lot of help. Like you, I am very sensitive to nicotine. I couldn’t come up with a dose that was tolerable. I know some say at first you will feel worse, but if you are vomiting, or anxiety is intolerable, it seems wrong to continue.
I might consider gum to try to build a little tolerance....I don’t know.
Good luck to you.

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I was never a smoker.
I am now on 2 mgs a day - using lozenges. You can also cut patches up. I found it challenging for first hour or so....and yet? If I rest, symptoms became relaxation!
If there is a cleansing of receptors - this may be why it packs a wallop at first. My brain fog is going and my energy is returning. I won't add more until I am stable in 2-4 mgs. E

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elizafb | @elizafb | Aug 14, 2024

How do I reach Italian researchers on nicotine for post covid and vaccines?
thanks - E

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elizafb | @elizafb | Aug 14, 2024
In reply to @cwojo2 "After contracting covid in early January 2021 I have been out without my sense of smell..." + (show)
@cwojo2

After contracting covid in early January 2021 I have been out without my sense of smell for over three years now. That seems to be the only lingering symptom, but I am definitely willing to try the nicotine. I am somewhat afraid of the side effects as I have not been a smoker for over 40 years. I have read on here that some people use the gum and some use the 7 mg patches. Does anyone have advice for someone just missing their lack of smell?

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Latest research - woldwide it seems - is that nicotine is not addictive. Tobacco giants put pyrazine and around 599 other chemicals in cigarettes - these are waht pushes addiction.
Research also shows that nictone has receptors all over our bodies and is in many vegetables.
I lost taste and am not on 2 mgs nicotine in lozenge form. Best to begin with low dose.
Brainfog has lifted and i have more energy. I do notice my sense of smell is back and some taste
E

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dloos | @dloos | Aug 14, 2024
In reply to @elizafb "I was never a smoker. I am now on 2 mgs a day - using lozenges...." + (show)
@elizafb

I was never a smoker.
I am now on 2 mgs a day - using lozenges. You can also cut patches up. I found it challenging for first hour or so....and yet? If I rest, symptoms became relaxation!
If there is a cleansing of receptors - this may be why it packs a wallop at first. My brain fog is going and my energy is returning. I won't add more until I am stable in 2-4 mgs. E

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I have never tried a lozenge. My reaction was so rough to patches, and gum didn’t seem to do anything. So I determined maybe not for me, after trying three times.
I may give it another go with lozenge.

My taste and smell came back shortly after being sick with Covid. I have hearing loss and eye, and digestive issues that started six weeks after the initial infection ended. It’s a puzzle I’ve been fighting for two and a half years. Can’t even count the number of doctors and specialists I have seen over that time.

It is quite discouraging.
Good luck to you.

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cantek | @cantek | Aug 14, 2024
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@koliver

I know a person who had success with nicotine patches, so I recently joined a social media group - Renegade Research--#TheNicotineTest Although the information overload in the group can be a bit overwhelming, I have come to realize that this long haul C is definitely legit. It actually helps to realize that perhaps you're not actually loosing your mind because that's exactly how you feel! I do not have a confirmed diagnosis but I am beginning to think LC is what I am experiencing, so I am doing as much research as I can. I plan to see a doctor who is treating LC. All I know is that C along with it's after affects is pure evil and can disrupt your life in a big way!

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Coffee helps me.
They both vasoconstrict your blood vessels and help with the dysautonimia.

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cantek | @cantek | Aug 14, 2024
In reply to @elizafb "I was never a smoker. I am now on 2 mgs a day - using lozenges...." + (show)
@elizafb

I was never a smoker.
I am now on 2 mgs a day - using lozenges. You can also cut patches up. I found it challenging for first hour or so....and yet? If I rest, symptoms became relaxation!
If there is a cleansing of receptors - this may be why it packs a wallop at first. My brain fog is going and my energy is returning. I won't add more until I am stable in 2-4 mgs. E

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Challenging in what way?

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cantek | @cantek | Aug 14, 2024

What is the wallop it packs?
I want to try it but … are you shaky? Tachy? What is the wallop?

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elizafb | @elizafb | Aug 14, 2024

Hi,
.Feel tingling and flushing all over body as it hits the receptors. Not a bad feeling..
yet a bit shaky for first half hour. Hard to focus so I know it hits the brain also.
Yet, I feel it is de-toxing what was left in cells by vaccines and covid.
Each day it is a bit less. Like niacin flush- if you know that?

do not give up - there are so many doing research all over world....nicotine right now feels right to me.
Look for research on it - France has quite a bit. Dr. ARdis also...

best of luck,
E.

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lorivwebb | @lorivwebb | Aug 15, 2024

I just started on 1.75mg. I have PoTs too, so super sensitive.

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