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Post by garganzol »

nradov wrote: post #198
garganzol wrote: post #171

We already had deeply insightful discussions on this topic here, but I will repeat for new HN people. Covid-19 tends to cause post-viral complications, which manifest themselves as chronic fatigue, body temperature dysregulation, air hunger / shortness of breath with SpO2 of 99%, various neurological symptoms: pain/tingling/numbing sensations in the extremities, parosmia (a distorted sense of smell), parageusia (a di…

There has been no such collective conclusion. It could be correct and there are several viable hypotheses in there worthy of further research but nothing that meets the standards of evidence-based medicine.

Survival comes first, while evidence-based, official, one-size-fits-all approvals do not come into existence until a large enough statistical samples are collected. Chicken and egg dilemma of its own.

P.S. People are preparing for WW III with a far greater enthusiasm now, imho. Which is sad.

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Post by codr7 »

penjelly wrote: post #123
codr7 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For any sinus inflammation issues, I would recommend trying Neti. I had more or less constant inflammation growing up, two weeks of daily Neti solved that problem for good.

that didn't work for me. It helped in the moment but didn't address the underlying problem.

sorry to hear that, good luck

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

jf22 wrote: post #156
leandrod wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's interesting to me how COVID vaccine skepticism has persisted so long despite the evidence the vaccine was safe and effective. All the nightmare scenarios and long-term side effects people speculated about never happened and more and more doses of the vaccine have been taken safely.

> safe and effective

Do you have any long studies you can point to? Let’s go very short. 5 years or more?

The “The Science” crowd is so perplexing. You can’t believe in the upside in just faith. That’s exactly what you’re pretending not to do.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by mentos »

tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

For what it’s worth I had bad nerve pain from Covid and only thing that helped was weight lifting and a carnivore diet. I’d put more stock in the weight lifting though. I believe an increase in testosterone helped regulate my immune system. From what I understand women suffer more from auto immune diseases than men (at least it’s the case with MS) so maybe weight lifting is part of it.. good luck.

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Post by nradov »

tempfile wrote: post #21
triyambakam wrote: post #8

I would say we don't really know if it's so called Long COVID. I mean that I have taken care of an ME/CFS sufferer long before COVID was around. So it's a set of diseases grouped by their similar symptoms. Autism and ADHD seem similar in that regard

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In some cases we don't really know if your kid has autism. Under the DSM-5 criteria there are three levels of autism spectrum disorder: 1, 2, 3. Down at the less severe end of the spectrum, clinicians often assign different diagnoses. One psychiatrist might diagnose a patient with ASD Level 1, and then the next day a different psychiatrist might say that the same patient doesn't have ASD at all and actually suffers from ADHD or something else. It's highly subjective and reproducibility is low.

https://peterattiamd.com/trennasutcliffe/

At the more severe end of the spectrum, diagnoses tend to be more objective and consistent.

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Post by mwpmaybe »

gbalint wrote: post #181
tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

It's a long shot, but my mild long covid symptoms practically disappeared since I've been taking MCT oil regularly. I was motivated to try it after reading this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37415915/ .

What's your regimen look like?

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Post by 20k »

Winsaucerer wrote: post #199
garganzol wrote: post #171

We already had deeply insightful discussions on this topic here, but I will repeat for new HN people. Covid-19 tends to cause post-viral complications, which manifest themselves as chronic fatigue, body temperature dysregulation, air hunger / shortness of breath with SpO2 of 99%, various neurological symptoms: pain/tingling/numbing sensations in the extremities, parosmia (a distorted sense of smell), parageusia (a di…

This might be an ignorant question, but are these therapies likely to help chronic fatigue that predates Covid-19?

Long covid, and CFS, are almost certainly the same disease. The person you're replying to is massively overselling the efficacy of treatment though, most people with this kind of fatigue tend to improve to a lower level of functioning than before their fatigue. Nobody has much idea of what the underlying disease is, and there's no evidence that you can cure it with any treatment

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Post by garganzol »

Winsaucerer wrote: post #199
garganzol wrote: post #171

We already had deeply insightful discussions on this topic here, but I will repeat for new HN people. Covid-19 tends to cause post-viral complications, which manifest themselves as chronic fatigue, body temperature dysregulation, air hunger / shortness of breath with SpO2 of 99%, various neurological symptoms: pain/tingling/numbing sensations in the extremities, parosmia (a distorted sense of smell), parageusia (a di…

This might be an ignorant question, but are these therapies likely to help chronic fatigue that predates Covid-19?

If you talk about ME/CFS, then it is known to be helpful in some specific cases, but not universally. People with ME/CFS tend to be driven by autoimmunity as a primal factor of the disease.

There is a clear problem of diagnosis and intersection of the symptoms. What we call ME/CFS today may be several distinct diseases with overlapping symptoms.

To give you a direct answer: it helps with chronic fatigue, but only if one of the causes of the illness has a metabolic impairment component in it. Otherwise, no improvements are observed.

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Post by DamnInteresting »

penjelly wrote: post #86
tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

Hi, I couldn't glean from the articles. But it sounds like you have breathing issues from long covid? it may sound ridiculous, but I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times. If I avoid gluten, lactose, canola oil I get far fewer symptoms. I know this likely isn't your issue but I do experience positive airway pressure, coughing, burping, chronic fatigue, exessive yawning. If that sounds like you maybe…

> I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times

Same here, at least in regard to gluten. I was in my mid-forties, and I started experiencing painful bloating that often led to difficulty breathing, and after an hour or so of pain, vomiting. The involuntary 'protein spill' alleviated the pain of bloating, but I was left exhausted for the remainder of the day.

At first, these episodes occurred about once every 2 weeks, but they grew more and more common over a few months, until it was a nearly daily occurrence. I had become overweight (I'm still working on that), so my doctor concluded that I just needed to lose some body fat. It felt like there was something more serious more going on, but US health care.

Weeks later, I stumbled upon a science article describing how millions of people develop gluten sensitivity later in life. It described familiar symptoms and progression. As an experiment, I tried eliminating gluten from my diet (which is tricky, that stuff sneaks into surprising places), and I felt much better within a few days.

In the ~2 years since, I've had a few episodes, but I can almost always find a place where gluten snuck into my food (e.g., a taco place that added flour to its corn tortillas). On one occasion, I deliberately ate a bit of bread, and sure enough, 30 minutes later I was begging the porcelain gods for forgiveness.

I miss real bread, but for me, the blowback isn't worth it.

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Post by Matticus_Rex »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #203
jf22 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting to me how COVID vaccine skepticism has persisted so long despite the evidence the vaccine was safe and effective. All the nightmare scenarios and long-term side effects people speculated about never happened and more and more doses of the vaccine have been taken safely.

> safe and effective Do you have any long studies you can point to? Let’s go very short. 5 years or more? The “The Science” crowd is so perplexing. You can’t believe in the upside in just faith. That’s exactly what you’re pretending not to do.

"Do you have 5 years or more of evidence about this thing that has existed for less than that time?"

Obviously this is not a good faith question.

And yes, we may find out that the vaccines are, over a long period of time, not perfectly safe. But we do have enough data to know they aren't super risky (at least for the vast majority), because big effects would be easy to see, and we do know that COVID is very risky. Classic economic thinking question: "compared to what?"

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