Recovery from Long COVID Shouldn't be This Exhausting
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 4 years
- Published
- Mar 2025
Summary
In this post, Zeest Khan describes using a beta-agonist or steroid inhaler along with unspecified pills, injections for allergic triggers, and steroids — no drug names, doses, or durations are given. In 2021 she was bedbound, unable to stand without nearly passing out. By March 2025 she could stay upright most of the day, drive short distances, and record a podcast. She is explicit that these gains are fragile and maintenance-dependent, requiring constant vigilance and strict lifestyle modifications around sleep, nutrition, and trigger avoidance, and that "every deviation" from her routine makes the progress harder to sustain.
What they credit
Credits Low-dose naltrexone, POTS medication, Antihistamines & MCAS, Diet, Other prescription drugs, Pacing, Pacing and the energy envelope.
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