Long COVID breathlessness and heart symptoms, much better after DNRS and quercetin
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 14 months
- Last post
- Apr 2022
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I started 14 months ago and still have some stuff going on but made incredible recovery from where I used to be
In context ↗ - Now: Much better
made incredible recovery from where I used to be. A lot of ups and downs but much better overall
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
I started 14 months ago and still have some stuff going on
In context ↗
Read from 6 of their posts and comments; links to the 5 this page draws on
Summary
A Reddit user who fell ill in early 2021 with breathlessness, heart pounding and skipped heartbeats said 14 months later they had made an incredible recovery, though they were still not back to their old level and had daily skipped beats. They credited DNRS brain retraining, which made symptoms milder within a week, quercetin, which cut breathlessness by 80-90%, and pacing to rebuild exercise tolerance.
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What they tried
What they credit
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- DNRS · Helped
Symptoms still come and go but are generally milder. When I feel a symptom come on, like shortness of breath, and I do the exercise routine (maybe 5 minutes) it really helps
In context ↗ - Quercetin · Helped a lot
I started taking Quercetin which improved it by 80%
In context ↗ - pacing · Helped
I gradually built my endurance and recovery capacity (from the very bottom) by "pacing", i.e., doing a little more each time
In context ↗ - two videos (Li Zheng, Boston Chinese Acupuncture) · Helped
These two videos helped me quite a bit
In context ↗
Approaches: Brain retraining · Physiotherapy and rehab
Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, in the order they describe; they don’t give enough times to place each step. Hover or tap a point. 3 steps say too little to place on the scale and are only in the table. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
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| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | fell ill (long haul)I started 14 months ago and still have some stuff going onIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| 2021 | lowest point: constant heart pounding, intermittent breathlessness, workouts causing crashesHeart pounding was much worse.In context ↗ | Moderate | |
| July 2021 | symptoms became milder on DNRSSymptoms still come and go but are generally milder.In context ↗ | Not stated | Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust) |
| February 2022 | breathlessness much better on quercetinquercetin made my SOB 90% betterIn context ↗ | Not stated | Baicalein and quercetin |
| April 2022 | incredible recovery overall but still not back to previous level; continued skipped heartbeatsmade incredible recovery from where I used to be. A lot of ups and downs but much better overallIn context ↗ | Mild |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Breathlessness
When I feel a symptom come on, like shortness of breath
In context ↗ - Heart symptoms & palpitations
Still get skipped heart beats daily, though.
In context ↗ - Post-exertional malaise
sometimes I overdo it and pay the price
In context ↗
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