Long COVID brain fog, poor sleep and hot flashes much better with DHEA
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- Not stated
- Last post
- Aug 2022
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Recently started taking DHEA cream, though, after reading about how covid often decimates our natural stores of DHEA
In context ↗ - Now: Much better
I started taking DHEA in small amounts and my symptoms completely disappeared.
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
after reading about how covid often decimates our natural stores of DHEA
Summary
A woman who developed long COVID symptoms including brain fog, poor sleep, hot flashes and anxiety at about age 42. She said small amounts of DHEA made her symptoms disappear, and that DHEA cream finally cleared her brain fog, sleep and hot flashes, leaving only mild lifelong anxiety; new bifocals also let her read books again.
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What they tried
What they credit
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- DHEA · Helped a lot
I started taking DHEA in small amounts and my symptoms completely disappeared.
In context ↗ - progressive bifocals · Helped
I got progressive bifocals last year and I can read books again.
In context ↗ - menopause medications · Worse
put me on all sorts of medications that seemed to make things worse
In context ↗
Approaches: Hormones & thyroid
Their path
What they say at each step doesn’t fit the worst point or outcome above on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| onset | long COVID with adrenaline dumps, brain fog, broken sleep, hot flashes, anxiety and blurred visionThis happened to me as well, and my doctor was absolutely certain it was menopause (I was 42 at the time)In context ↗ |
| last year | progressive bifocals; could read books againI got progressive bifocals last year and I can read books againIn context ↗ |
| 2022-08-27 | small amounts of DHEA; symptoms completely disappearedI started taking DHEA in small amounts and my symptoms completely disappearedIn context ↗ |
| 2022-08-29 | DHEA cream; brain fog gone, sleeping through the night, no hot flashes, mild baseline anxiety leftand things are finally better! Brain fog gone, sleeping through the night, no hot flashes or anything elseIn context ↗ |
Adverse events
- “my doctor was absolutely certain it was menopause (I was 42 at the time) and put me on all sorts of medications that seemed to make things worse” In context ↗ Made symptoms worse
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Brain fog
Brain fog gone, sleeping through the night
In context ↗ - Sleep problems
sleeping through the night
In context ↗ - Temperature regulation
no hot flashes or anything else
In context ↗ - Vision problems
I got progressive bifocals last year and I can read books again
In context ↗ - Anxiety & low mood
Tiny bit of anxiety still, but I've always been anxious, so it's sort of my baseline
In context ↗
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