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The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by smj-edison »

_3u10 wrote: post #28
smj-edison wrote: post #26

Maybe a bit of a strange take, but after having dealt with chronic illness personally and talked with a lot of others with chronic illness, I don't think classifying chronic illness by symptoms will help with curing, and in fact I don't think categorizing works at all for chronic illness. We've been trying to classify chronic illnesses for so long, and yet in most cases no pattern emerges. This has led me to conclude…

Also, many people have cured chronic illnesses such as Crohn’s disease by moving to countries with low levels of those diseases.

Source? Never heard of this before.

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Post by empressplay »

nurettin wrote: post #29
lend000 wrote: post #22

I had a long process with this that mostly manifested as exercise intolerance and general inflammation/discomfort, and sleep struggles. I made no progress for 2 years, lost most of my muscle (I had been very active before) and started thinking "is this how it's going to be forever?". After not finding anything promising from traditional medicine or supplements, I finally made some dramatic life changes. I'm fully pas…

What do you mean by water fasting? Do you avoid drinking water directly, or do you avoid all food? For example salads are basically sacks of water.

no you only consume water

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Post by mpreda »

nurettin wrote: post #29
lend000 wrote: post #22

I had a long process with this that mostly manifested as exercise intolerance and general inflammation/discomfort, and sleep struggles. I made no progress for 2 years, lost most of my muscle (I had been very active before) and started thinking "is this how it's going to be forever?". After not finding anything promising from traditional medicine or supplements, I finally made some dramatic life changes. I'm fully pas…

What do you mean by water fasting? Do you avoid drinking water directly, or do you avoid all food? For example salads are basically sacks of water.

Water fast is when the only intake is water (plus electrolites and vitamines). Basically "eat nothing".

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

kennywinker wrote: post #23
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #18

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That you can see improvements in people with long covid by giving them SSRIs isn’t clear evidence it’s partly fake or a “social contagion”. Whatever improvements recorded are just as easily explained by the fact that being sick for months is depressing and alienating and a bunch of people think you’re faking it. On top of that, the SSRI article you linked suggests a biochemical mechanism by which SSRIs might be actin…

Why then do SSRIs also work on fibromyalgia, Morgellons, Chronic Lime and Chronic Fatigue?

Re: The Causes of Long Covid

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Post by Aurornis »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #36
kennywinker wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That you can see improvements in people with long covid by giving them SSRIs isn’t clear evidence it’s partly fake or a “social contagion”. Whatever improvements recorded are just as easily explained by the fact that being sick for months is depressing and alienating and a bunch of people think you’re faking it. On top of that, the SSRI article you linked suggests a biochemical mechanism by which SSRIs might be actin…

Why then do SSRIs also work on fibromyalgia, Morgellons, Chronic Lime and Chronic Fatigue?

Morgellons isn’t a real disease. It’s a mental health condition.

SSRIs do not “work on” those other conditions, but depression is highly comorbid with serious chronic illnesses. SSRIs improving some symptoms is to be expected when depression symptoms overlap with the condition.

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