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Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by mmastrac »

ouid wrote: post #52
nick__m wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A placebo is frequently better than nothing and sometimes better than the real thing. I can even work if you know that it's a placebo ! Also placebo are getting stronger https://drdavidhamilton.com/the-placebo-effect-is-getting-st... ;)

Mechanistically, placebo can only work on psychosomatic symptoms. There isn't any magic going on. If the problem is in your head, then thoughts can maybe help.

The recent paper on brain memory in immune response suggests this is no longer common wisdom. We just don't know. Evolution twists a lot of random wires together.

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Post by treeman79 »

cdrini wrote: post #35

The link between microclots and long COVID is new to me and fascinating. Anecdotally, this gels with some of the symptoms I've seen in friends/family. My father had reduced motility in his arm-- where he'd broken it many years before--for many months after recovering from COVID. Then one random day, after he'd strained himself a bit, he noticed the pain/restriction completely gone, and the skin had turned slightly bl…

I was diagnosed with micro clots a couple years before covid. My symptoms mirror long covid exactly.

Blood thinners resolved.

When I got covid all the symptoms came back. I had to double my blood thinners for six months.

Actual cause is Factor 5 Leiden. But seems to cause exact same sort of issues.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by JPKab »

Karunamon wrote: post #57
JPKab wrote: post #19

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I have a recommendation for you: You need to exercise. You are in your mid-thirties now. It's a big problem if you don't. But you have bad air quality where you live. I've dealt with this myself in the past. A relatively inexpensive solution that I recommend for anyone in areas with poor air quality is to build your own filter fans. Get a standard box fan, get a furnace filter that has HEPA ratings, duct tape the fur…

>Get a standard box fan, get a furnace filter that has HEPA ratings, duct tape the furnace filter to the back of the fan. Please be very careful with this. This significantly strains the motor of your average cheap box fan, and hot motors tend to die faster and can get hot enough to melt plastic and start fires. I'd really recommend an actual air purifier instead, especially if it will run while you're asleep or not…

I always run it on the lowest setting, but yes, you need to be careful. Good point.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by mikeyouse »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #93
kingsloi wrote: post #17

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I had similar symptoms in January 2019, I went to Urgent Care and then the ER because of heart arrhythmia, I felt sick, but no major fever. I put it down to anxiety (never suffered with before), but part of me wonders if it was COVID. Out of curiosity, where do you live? I too live next to a bunch of chemical/steel plants and have been tracking air quality, weather, traffic, etc. https://millerbeach.community in Gary…

You might be interested in reading this (very long, amateur, pseudononymous, non-peer-reviewed) analysis theorizing "SARS-CoV-2 presence in China as far back as March 2018." [0] [0] https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...

You'd be more informed (less uninformed in reality) reading a tabloid about bigfoot on the moon than whatever the hell that is.

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Post by treeman79 »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #5

I think I’m going to start taking aspirin. Oddly enough I took that a few times because I didn’t have ibuprofen and I do feel like it helped a lot with the weird long symptoms I am experiencing. I’m triple vaccinated before anyone asks. I haven’t tested positive for Covid on rapid tests but a lot of people seem to be in the boat I’m in right now.

I clot like crazy. Micro and bigger ones. stroke symptoms in 48 hours without meds. Prescription blood thinners solve symptoms extremely well.

I couldn’t handle side effects, so I switched to Aspirin. It mostly works. But not as well. Side effects aren’t as bad. Doctors are pissed. But quality of life matters.

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by delecti »

lmkg wrote: post #100
nradov wrote: post #86

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None of that implies that COVID was the cause. It could just be a coincidence.

> Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'. Randall Munroe, https://xkcd.com/552/ (mouseover text)

I feel like the two different definitions of "imply" (formal vs colloquial) make "correlation doesn't imply causation" simultaneously true and false. On one hand, correlation doesn't necessarily demonstrate causation, but on the other hand (like the comment says) it does suggest fertile ground for research.

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Post by swader999 »

mikeyouse wrote: post #109
yuubi wrote: post #98

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Is this the FLCCC that pushes ivermectin (a fine worm killer, but no panacea) for covid?

Yes - a bunch of discredited quacks (with multiple papers now retracted for the terrible quality of their science) causing enormous headaches for every practicing doctor and nurse having to treat the unvaccinated "Facebook Researchers" who end up in the hospital trying to get their useless cocktail of meds.

What specifically in the linked protocol do you disagree with?

Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

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Post by mikeyouse »

ccn0p wrote: post #101
tokai wrote: post #9

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>a group of vocal doctors who get ignored or suppressed by the media You make it sound so ominous. But if you look them up they have gotten a ton of coverage from all kinds of media. Pierre Kory et. al. has also published (and are still publishing) numerous articles in (non hoax/predatory) science journals. Sure they are critiqued, but that is what happens when you go against a majority opinion (disciplinary not popu…

On that logic, if that's the case, then shouldn't a responsible "mainstream" media (CNN, NY Times, WaPo, etc.) be talking about these published papers by Pierre Kory et al. even if positioned as "minority viewpoints"? Instead what we tend to see is fact checkers springing into action and media continuing to only push a single "majority" narrative further dividing all of us instead of uniting us together to have open…

This is such a silly line of argument -- If someone writes a paper that says "the sky is pink" -- you would afford them no airtime at all, even as "minority viewpoints". These doctors are quacks, they get as much mainstream media coverage as quacks deserve.

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Post by iamthepieman »

costcopizza wrote: post #102
iamthepieman wrote: post #76

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The point is that without a control group there's no way to know.

No, there is a way to know, just not the way you want to know.

Ad hoc trials? Aka testing in production.

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Post by hammock »

yuubi wrote: post #98
swader999 wrote: post #96

I'd urge anyone suffering long covid to take a look at the FLCCC protocol for treating it. Results were immediate for myself and I've seen tens of others that have followed it resolve their issues. https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover...

Is this the FLCCC that pushes ivermectin (a fine worm killer, but no panacea) for covid?

If anyone is interested in the data available on ivermectin for COVID, and whether it works, you can find a lot of it here: https://c19ivermectin.com/
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