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Long COVID exists for 5+ years: Share what has or not worked for you
It is out of my skepticism and disillusioment that I have pro-actively sought the truth, and found much of it elsewhere than in conventional medicine's approach to dealing with my own long COVID.
That's what led me to this board, where I have learned much and have contributed what I can.
The medical community has been dealing with long COVID for five long years.
Isn't that long enough for treating brain fog and post-exertion fatigue with amped-up doses of creatine and L-glutamie to become widespread?
Isn't that long enough for using NAC, guiafeninsen, and/or mullien to combat the respiratory effects of long COVID to become widespread?
Are we left to trust our altruistic philathropic benefactors, such as Bill Gates, to back away from his moneychanging tables at Moderna and let us in on what is readily at hand that works? Or do big pharma, in league with power politics, have too big a grip on our healthcare?
My personal care physician is a good man, a good doc, and is doing the best he can. But even he and those like him have a big patch of tall weeds to find their way through, in searching for the truth which they in turn attempt to deliver to us. And he and others like him, along with some of us, have reason for our skepticism.
But in our skepticism we must press on, encourage one another, share what works and what doesn't, verify what is successful - and then trust.
Be strong, and of good courage. God has not forgotten us. Trust Him, hope in Him, and press on.
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My long covid symptoms resolved after getting covid a second time. The second time was in March of 2024. Once that infection cleared, I noticed I felt better than before. I told my doctor I thought it cleared the long covid symptoms. I googled at the time and could find no other reports of this at the time. Now that it has been two years since and no long covid symptoms, I am convinced and am here because I read a recent article that they now do have other reports of this, and they referred to this Mayo site. I am convinced it wiped out whatever lingering covid that was causing my body to react to the lingering infection. Two years out from second infection, and I have had no long covid symptoms. My purpose in posting is in the hopes that Mayo or someone would research this because I know it's true and I am grateful to have my health restored. Good luck to everyone, long covid needs to be addressed.
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5 Reactions@mp2026 that is so fascinating. Did you do anything different from the first infection?
Were you in better health (minus the LC) the second time, e.g like from eating better?
Did you have LC symptoms right up until the second infection?
I did not do anything differently. Both times I had covid, I did not receive any treatments. About six months after the first covid, my doctor gave me steroids at my request to help get through the work day (my reason). He also thought it might help reset my immune system. It didn't, but did help with the fatigue so I could get things done. But no treatments of any kind after that. And you cannot stay on steroids for a long time, so it was not a n option as a long-term solution. After recovering from the second infection, at a certain point I realized the fatigue was less, and then eventually back to normal. And no more flare ups of joint inflammation, and no more getting winded quite easily - which were my main three long covid symptoms. I am convinced it somehow wiped out the lingering first covid, and once my body cleared out the second covid, my immune system went back to normal. This should be studied, and even makes sense to a layman like myself.
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