symptoms of Long Covid

Posted by sober89 @sober89, May 10 1:57pm

I had covid in December 2025 and wonder if chest congestion and muscle cramps and spasms could be a sign of long covid?

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Quite a while following covid; and I had not had the vaccine; although now they are saying we have acquired illnesses from both the virus and the vaccine.

I have read that they tracked some of what was from long covid by pulling people's prior blood work to see what they did and did not have before covid compared to following covid.

I googled "comprehensive list of medical issues acquired via covid" and there is quite a list; joint and muscle pain and weakness, chronic pain, aching muscles; that's on the list; persistent shortness of breath (which I had), and fibrotic lung disease, damaged and scarred lung tissue, pulmonary fibrosis, blood clots in the lungs, chornic lingering cough.

The list is long; maybe try to google what I typed up there; "comprehensive list of ....

For a different reason; doctors; one in Chapel Hill, NC and one at Stanford recommended I try LDN for my residual joint and muscle pains I had been having, so I did.

I had had a short of breath that neither my heart or pulmonary doctors could figure out; that dissappeared the first week I took LDN. I started at low dose or 1.5 mg because I don't do well with medicine, chemicals, etc., and they moved me up by l/2 mg each month; I am at 3.0 mg right now.

I take it at bedtime and upon waking the the first morning after, I felt amazing; better than I had felt in a very long time. And during that week, the shortness of breath dissappeared, never to re-appear to date, and my joint and muscle pains have all dissappeared as well.

I think that it because is a powerful anti-inflammatory, and healing to the immune system. It helped with my sinus and I even lose appx 2 lbs a month because I dont seem to eat so much.

I get it in the compounded form from a compounding pharmacy; I am in jacksonville fl so I found a great pharmacy on Beach Blvd....Medtown Pharmacy and the owner/pharmacist is incredibly helpful. I will tell you that the size of the capsule matters, so you want the small capsules and they have to use a filler when compunding the LDN and they use lactose. The lactose filler bothered me a little because I am IBS person, so I did check a couple of different pharmacies with different fillers, and I couldn't feel anything; like the medicine wasn't working, and I learned that some fillers actually interact with the effectiveness of the medication, so I went back to Medtown and the lactose filler. One pharmacy used calcium carbonate and I knew it felt odd to me, and now upon looking see that that filler does interact with the effectiveness of the medication.

I have noticed on recent bloodwork that in 3 sets of my bloodwork numbers that had gotten high, have now rebounded back to good numbers, so I believe that LDN is healing to the immune system.

I studied it a lot on a site called LDN Research Trust before trying it.
I am going to attach some of their guides for you to look at; one is a patient guide, a prescriber guide, and a mental heath guide that they put out as well, for ADHD and other issues people may have. They may provide great insight for you, and from you're saying, I think it may help you too, like it did me.

Shared files

LDN 2026_Patient_Guide (LDN-2026_Patient_Guide-1.pdf)

LDN 2026_Prescriber_Guide (LDN-2026_Prescriber_Guide-3.pdf)

LDN 2026_Mental_Health_Guide (LDN-2026_Mental_Health_Guide-1.pdf)

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