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Our symptoms sound similar! I decided to do stellate ganglion block because another long-COVID person I was connected with told me about it. I looked up some info on it and asked an acquaintance who is a retired doctor and decided it was worth a try. I had to ask for it, no doctor recommended it for me.But thankfully my primary doctor was supportive and gave me the referral I needed to Pain Management which is the department that does these blocks, at least in my clinic network.

Here are the resources I looked at, but now these are a few years old and there is even more, newer, and often encouraging research out there if you want to look

1. “Stellate Ganglion Block”. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17507-stellate-ganglion-block
2. “Stellate Ganglion Block Successfully Treats Long COVID/PASC: A Case Series”. https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-873830/v1/80a84314-a831-4ee8-bd3e-cc6501beda46.pdf?c=1631889297
3. “A Review of Stellate Ganglion Block as an Adjunctive Treatment Modality”. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10029323/
4. “Stellate Ganglion Block for Long COVID Symptom Management: A Case Report”. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9822527/
5. “Stellate ganglion block reduces symptoms of Long COVID: A case series”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165572821003118

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Thank you! I was given multiple types of inhalers like albuterol and steroids, the strongest one was trilogy, but nothing helped. 5 pulmonary function tests revealed small airway changes but all the doctors say wouldn’t cause difficulty breathing. Did you get the inhaler because of some kind of diagnosis?