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Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid?

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Re: Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid?

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Just being curious, how can you know with an antibody test that you had asymptomatic covid on a particular time period, and not, say, as a result of vaccination. Different antibody types maybe? And are you sure it is long covid? Your symptoms don't look very specific, and the risk of long covid is usually proportional to symptoms (with no symptoms being the lowest risk). I say that because I had somewhat similar symp…

The antibody test is credible - it's Abbott's. I've tried the finger prick ones and they are not reliable. I had the same type of palpitations with Pfizer's original vaccine and my symptoms match CDC's list [0].

The vaccine caused immediate severe palpitations (up to several per minute) hours after the shot, tachycardia, and the high severity lasted for 2-3 whole days (being worst at night), but then lower grade for 3 months.

Typically long covid kicks in weeks after infection and the timing fits my exposure timeline.

Again, saw a cardiologist and they didn't notice anything wrong, but they can't really see inflammation, I guess. What's strange is that my hsCRP was normal.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...

Re: Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid?

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[Citation Needed]

I thought it was some crazy stuff, but seems not to be the case [0] entirely. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8772524/

Correlation doesn't imply causation though.

Re: Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was some crazy stuff, but seems not to be the case [0] entirely. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8772524/

Correlation doesn't imply causation though.

Yeah, if that was omnipresent before the pandemic, right? But suddenly, to observe something that's not supposed to be present increases the odds of causation.

Re: Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correlation doesn't imply causation though.

Yeah, if that was omnipresent before the pandemic, right? But suddenly, to observe something that's not supposed to be present increases the odds of causation.

Increases the odds yes, but needs to be controlled for that to actually determine causation.

You shouldn't conclude that based on the study and you -certainly- should not be giving health advice as if that were the truth.

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