This is helpful. I have not heard of this before.

Yes I tried nicotine patches and it helped me to ged rid of fatigue and exercise intolerance, which I had both for 1 year.

It was that study of Dr. Marco Leitzke (on you tube).

I did as he recommended, 2 days 3,5mg /24h patches, followed by 7 days 7mg/24h patches and 2 days of 3,5/24h patches.

I tolerated it well. Of course there was a strange feeling in my brain, like something is busy working. And I sweat. But it was just in the beginning.
I had my ups and downs (fatigue) during the patches, but all in all it was better with the patches. I had more energy.

The 3 first days after I stopped using the nicotine patches, I was like before or even worse.
Then, day by day it startet to get better. On day 22 (counted from the beginning when I startet with nicotine patches), I felt as I had no more fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog and difficulties to find words.

But I‘m still not that fit as I used to be. I am on day 26 today.
I have still often cold feeds, prone to catch colds, have to eat all 4 hours 400kcl.

But I have my energy back and can go out for 1 hour walks! I couldn’t do that for 1 year! Sometimes I couldn’t go out at all, just lying on the couch for weeks.

I can feel, it is getting better from week to week.

I am a 41 year old nurse, slim, no smoking and was sportive before I got LongCOVID.

After a reaseaech pub was reported to me, i began patches in October 2023. The dose of 7 mg patch dis nothing. About 10 days in I added two four mg gums twice per day. I noted some slight improvement on Long Covid symptoms. My situation Is extreme. I have had covid and long covid 12 times. I increased nicotine by patch, gim, pouch over time to mid 45 mg per day. I began seeing nearly daiky improvement. After 30 days I was long covid free and ths bonus was the nicotine treatment also reduced my covid reactive arthritis from flares lasting 3 to 4 days (using many plant based anti-inflamatory products prenicotine to About 8 hours for moderate flare. I also use THC cream, abd codeine, the patch is aoplied on the flare site. (my wife'

A friend told me about a nicotine Long Covid trial last year in October. I looked up the research (search: 2013 Long Covid Covid 19 nicotine treatment impact Sars CoV 2) and found multiple papers. One publication was in January or February and had the mode of action (at least two) of nicotine on Sars CoV-2 virus and how the nicotine modulated cytokinin and blocked the ACE receptors. The other papers provided additional information and one was a study (August publication as I recall) in which 100% of patients with Long Covid recovered to symptom free in 7 days.

These were all refereed journal publications.

I started taking nicotine immediately. I found that the patch (7 mg) had no impact. With medications I have found that most are metabolism-weight dose reponses. So, I used two patches an additional 7 days (7 mg each). The adhesive bothered my skin, but I began to see a response. I augmented gum (4 mg, no sugar) one piece then two pieces, mid afternoon. I began to see very significant responses. Positive. After 28 days I had "found my dose-response" and began to see Long Covid symptoms dissappear including brain fog, attention issues, analysis and deep thinking issues, major short term memory, nerve jerks, nerve shooting pains, sweating, and control after one day of my Covid Viral Reactive Arthritis, etc...

Astounding. I am not nor have I ever been a smoker. Nicotine is bad..... this is all we have heard from medicine all our lives. No, smoking is bad. Nicotine comes from plants in the Solanaceae family. This family includes tomato, potato, pepper, egg plant. Two other plant species not in this family produce nicotine, cellery and cauliflower.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308053290619
No, you do not have an addiction to tomatoz potato, pepper, eggplant, cellery, or cauliflower. It is not the nicotine which is additive. My family and I have all been using nicotine since October as needed. I have been diagnosed with Long Covid over five times, never recovering from it before I was reinfected by Sars CoV-2 again.

This is a game changer. My daughtef had Covid in January. After one gum treatment, her head woozy from the 4 mg dose, in 8 hours she had her smell returned and by the next morning her taste returned.

The issues: stigma, lack of knowlegde of medical professionals and researchers of truth, nicotine is a plant phytochem which protects the plant, fruit, and seed from pathogens and insects. I have a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and Microbiology.

A green tomato, at maximim (50 mg nicotine reported), has more than 35 times more nicotine than a cigarette. The nicotine drops in ripe vegetables to lower quantities. Seed desimination by animals, birds, or insects would be eliminated if the nicotine remained high.

Returning to "the bad", the side effects are mostly minimal to none. Nausea seems to be the worst side effect for some, or the light headed effect.

I have no issues. I had Covid, Flu A, and bronchitis in December - January. I began treatment again after the Flu was over. It took about 14 days to see major improvement on my dose-response. I continued to take nicotine another three weeks and continued to see positive impact. I have not had covid again and the Long Covid was mostly gone in 28 days.

Justin