Long COVID brain fog, palpitations and crashes, now much better with nattokinase
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 2.5 years
- Last post
- May 2025
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I finally recovered this year after 2.5 years
In context ↗ - Now: Much better
I finally recovered this year after 2.5 years ... Still had the tired but wired feeling and random fatigue though
- Began after: COVID
I finally recovered this year after 2.5 years, and just gone down with COVID again this weekend.
Summary
They had long COVID for about two and a half years, with brain fog, heart palpitations, random fatigue and crashes after trigger foods. Nattokinase 400 mg twice daily was the only thing that noticeably helped; when their rehab team had them stop it, the symptoms returned ten-fold. They recovered in 2025, then caught COVID again in May 2025 and were still ill, restarting nattokinase and trying a ketogenic diet.
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What they tried
What they credit
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- Nattokinease · Helped
Was on 400mg twice a day and that stopped a lot of the brain fog and heart palpatations.
In context ↗ - Trigger food elimination · Helped
I found my trigger foods that made me crash or have acid reflux (Wheat and oats, soya, red meat, caffiene, carbs with not enough fibre
In context ↗ - pro/pre biotics · Not said
Took pro/pre biotics and collagen to slowly heal the gut ... Can't say if that had an impact or not since it wasn't sudden
In context ↗ - digestion aid · Not said
as well as using a digestion aid short term
In context ↗ - keto diet · Not said
a keto diet can help stop covid turning into long covid, so I'm giving that a shot while I'm still sick, while restarting the nattokinease.
In context ↗
Approaches: Anticoagulants · Diet
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 | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| onset | long COVID with brain fog, palpitations and fatigueI finally recovered this year after 2.5 yearsIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| — | brain fog and palpitations largely stoppedthat stopped a lot of the brain fog and heart palpatationsIn context ↗ | Not stated | Nattokinase |
| — | stopped nattokinase on rehab team's advice; symptoms returned ten-foldmy rehab team asked me to stop and they came back 10foldIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| 2025 | recovered after 2.5 years | Recovered | Nattokinase |
| 2025-05 | caught COVID againjust gone down with COVID again this weekendIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| 2025-05-26 | still sick; restarting nattokinase and trying a ketogenic dietI'm giving that a shot while I'm still sick, while restarting the nattokineaseIn context ↗ | Not stated |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Brain fog
stopped a lot of the brain fog and heart palpatations
In context ↗ - Gut problems
trigger foods that made me crash or have acid reflux
In context ↗ - Sleep problems
I moved it to twice a day to improve my sleep
In context ↗
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