Long COVID symptoms wiped out within two days with benfotiamine and magnesium
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- Not stated
- Last post
- Oct 2022
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
My symptoms were wiped out within 2 days
In context ↗ - Now: Recovered
My symptoms were wiped out within 2 days
In context ↗
Read from 1 of their posts and comments; links to the one this page draws on
Summary
The person took benfotiamine 100 mg twice a day with 200 mg of magnesium citrate and said their symptoms were wiped out within two days. They said the thiamine did not work for them unless they took the magnesium with it. They gave no detail on which symptoms they had, how long they had been ill or how they were doing later.
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What they tried
Their words about each treatment
- benfotiamine · Helped a lot
I take benfotiamine 100mg twice a day with 200 mg of Magnesium citrate.
In context ↗ - Magnesium citrate · Helped a lot
If I don’t take the magnesium with it the thiamine does not work for me.
In context ↗
Approaches: Supplements
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | After |
|---|---|---|
| — | had symptoms, not described, before trying thiamineMy symptoms were wiped out within 2 daysIn context ↗ | |
| 2022-10-04 | symptoms wiped out within two days of benfotiamine taken with magnesium | Thiamine / benfotiamine |
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