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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sandguy | @sandguy | 5 days ago

Yes, all those drugs are essentially stimulants, so they make some sense.
In my case, with fatigue being basically my only symptom, they should likely help that. TBH, I'm probably a reasonable candidate from an ADHD standpoint anyways.
I just feel a little hesitant since it seems like such an artificial approach--definitely just treating the symptom instead of the underlying cause, but since researchers haven't definitively identified a cause, I guess it's the best logical approach.
Best of luck with the LDN--perhaps you'll be in the favorable 50!
Let's continue to compare notes, and thanks for your feedback, too.