It's a preprint that has already been criticized by peers
It's resolving a symptom, not the cause and there's no long-term followup to see if the results stuck around.
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
So likely you won't meet the "better than placebo" threshold.
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.
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#53I 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.
The clotting in covid is fibrin based not platelet.
If aspirin did anything for covid you'd be seeing it on the news every single day for the past two years.
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#54Huh. This is interesting. I also have some fatigue, but my most obvious long-covid symptom is heart pain/strain which is aggravated by either an elevated heart rate or dehydration. I'm no expert, but intuitively this would seem to provide a good explanation of those symptoms.
I'm hopeful that research into whatever "long covid" syndrome is/isn't leads to excellent new medical knowledge that applies to much more than just COVID edge-cases. I suddenly got similar symptoms since getting a nasty version of strep throat last October. Notably I had an elevated fever (>102F) for quite a few days straight. I've never had COVID but I did get the mRNA vaccines + booster. Since that fever, my heart…
I had heart arrhythmia after a full-blown covid. The 1-3 seconds of strange patterns sound very familiar.
It slowly resolved itself after some 4-6 months, but not on its own, I needed small dosage of Concor prescribed by the cardiologist.
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#55Sounds exactly like chronic fatigue syndrome, I don't know why we keep calling it Long COVID while we have a name for it. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/ > Suggested causes or triggers for ME/CFS include: > viral infections, such as glandular fever > bacterial infections, such as pneumonia > problems with the immune system > a hormone imbalance > your genes – ME/CFS seems to be more common…
Tell your friend to look into dysautonomia. There are some cutting edge treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, they just haven't become mainstream knowledge yet.
The two most effective approaches are using neuroplasticity exercises to retrain the limbic system (cheap, but time consuming - an hour a day for 6 months): https://ansrewire.com/ https://retrainingthebrain.com/
Or doing microcurrent neurofeedback (costs ~$150 a session, do one session a week for a couple months): https://microcurrentneurofeedback.com/
Essentially you have got to get the brain producing the proper amount and type of brain waves again, and then once you have that, slowly work back into exercising while trying to avoid triggers and push / crash cycles.
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#56The 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…
One of my more bizarre long COVID symptoms was blood vessel leakage on my feet. One day a month or so after getting over COVID my feet started noticeably swelling. I was worried I had a clot in my leg so I went to the ER but sonogram came out fine. Turns out I had worn too-tight shoes the day before and the vessels in my feet had swelled/leaked. This was my same pair of shoes I had always worn at same tightness (they were running shoes that I had always slipped on and off, never tied or untied) so I knew that it had to be COVID related.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm hopeful that research into whatever "long covid" syndrome is/isn't leads to excellent new medical knowledge that applies to much more than just COVID edge-cases. I suddenly got similar symptoms since getting a nasty version of strep throat last October. Notably I had an elevated fever (>102F) for quite a few days straight. I've never had COVID but I did get the mRNA vaccines + booster. Since that fever, my heart…
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 at home.
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#58It was my understanding that the existence of “long covid” is still debated as there hasn’t been any real evidence for it other than patient anecdotes.
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#59I 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.
The clotting in covid is fibrin based not platelet. If aspirin did anything for covid you'd be seeing it on the news every single day for the past two years.
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Re: Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients
#60The 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…
One of my more bizarre long COVID symptoms was blood vessel leakage on my feet. One day a month or so after getting over COVID my feet started noticeably swelling. I was worried I had a clot in my leg so I went to the ER but sonogram came out fine. Turns out I had worn too-tight shoes the day before and the vessels in my feet had swelled/leaked. This was my same pair of shoes I had always worn at same tightness (they…
Why do you know it had to be COVID related? Many conditions can cause swollen feet.