Ten Months of Long COVID
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 10 months
- Published
- Aug 2023
Summary
Marie Sanchez Nelson describes taking cetirizine, an antihistamine that calms her nervous system "in minutes," and had started nattokinase just three days before this post, which she hypothesizes may help repair blood vessels; no doses or durations are given for either. She had been ill for ten months with grinding fatigue, pain, nerve symptoms, and constant anxiety bordering on panic. Her marked improvement at the time of writing was a 1,093-step "victory walk," a personal best, and being able to distinguish ordinary tiredness from her long-COVID fatigue. She frames the next phase as simply maintaining this baseline, and the post gives no data yet on whether the gains held beyond that point.
What they credit
Credits Antihistamines & MCAS, Brain retraining, Diet, Pacing, Supplements, H1 antihistamines, Nattokinase and fibrinolytics, Pacing and the energy envelope.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Anxiety & low mood, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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