Arginine + Vitamin C for Long Covid
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 4 months
- Published
- Undated
Summary
L-arginine at 1.5g twice daily, modeled on a published arginine-plus-vitamin-C protocol, was started by a long COVID patient who had been unable to work as a programmer since about four months after a March 2022 infection, with severe headaches, chest pain, sleep disruption, food intolerances and post-exertional crashes. Improvement began within days, and by three weeks he reported no serious headaches for nearly two weeks; by 30 days headaches had stopped entirely. At seven weeks he still reported continuing improvement, though the rate of improvement had slowed. He describes this as not a complete cure, so the improvement counts as substantial rather than full, with no clear endpoint given.
Read it in their words
longcovid411.substack.com
What they credit
Credits Nitric-oxide boosters (beetroot, arginine, citrulline).
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Headaches & migraine, Heart symptoms & palpitations, Mast cell (MCAS) & allergies, Pain & fibromyalgia, Post-exertional malaise.
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