← Return to Epstein-Barr Treatment for Long Covid?

Discussion

Epstein-Barr Treatment for Long Covid?

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Feb 5 4:28am | Replies (103)

Comment receiving replies
@belson

The Bateman Horne clinic in Utah is doing a study with valacyclovir
It is a randomized trial so you may get the valacyclovir and celecoxib or placebo. Virios is the pharma company. Valacyclovir is usually used for herpes but there is some suggestions it will help LC due to viral reactivation. . This summer I had a fever blister on my lip and I was prescribed a one day high dose valacyclovir. It resolved the fever blister and my Long Covid symptoms completely resolved but started back 2 weeks later. My fatigue, dysautonomia, breathlessness etc were relieved but then returned. I think if I could have taken a longer duration it may have helped
This study will be 3 + months of therapy. Their pilot study showed success but you have to be under 65 yrs.
Is it possible for the person who mentioned the functional neurologist in Iowa to send me the doctors name and the functional dietician.
I agree, I am told many times to ask my primary care to prescribe me a therapy or med rather than the LC doctor but my primary refers me back to the LC doctor and says he won’t prescribe anything for LC since he doesn’t know that literature. The LC nurse told me to tell my primary care doctor that he needs to read the literature and that was not a realistic nor helpful suggestion or advice

Jump to this post


Replies to "The Bateman Horne clinic in Utah is doing a study with valacyclovir It is a randomized..."

Drs are loath to prescribe off label for Covid (or anything). They worry about lawsuits and losing their medical license. It leaves all of us out of luck!
If doctors do not get on board with trying to help us with our many, many debilitating symptoms, they really should not call themselves doctors.