Long COVID with needle pain; full recovery for a year then relapse after reinfection
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill before improving or writing
- 5 years
- Last post
- Oct 2026
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Yes, LC since 2021
In context ↗ - At worst: Moderate
30% to 70% in 3 months
In context ↗ - Now: Relapsed
I had a full 100% recovery for 1 year and relapsed 8 months ago
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
Yes, LC since 2021
In context ↗
Read from 12 of their posts and comments; links to the 10 this page draws on
Summary
Long COVID since 2021 left Beacon 74755 with needle pain and HRV drops after overdoing things. They fully recovered for a year, fell back to 80% (no sports), then a COVID infection dropped them to about 30%; they recovered to roughly 70% within three months while taking slowly titrated LDN (2.2 mg), CoQ10, NADH and magnesium. KPV seemed to help a bit only while they took it, and by late 2026 they felt better overall with increased tracked deep sleep.
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What they tried
What they credit
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- LDN · Helped
Today I’m at 2,2mg and I can already feel improvement (target is at 4,5mg).
In context ↗ - CoQ10(200mg) · Helped
CoQ10(200mg) + NADH (20mg) ? ... It was a game changer for me.
In context ↗ - stationary bike · Helped
I liked it a lot since it gave me 0 pain and helped everything in my body.
In context ↗ - KPV · Helped
So far KPV seems to help a bit (it has been 1 week and a half)
In context ↗ - TA1 · No change
The others didn’t (TA1, BPC, TB500,MOTS-C and DSIP)
In context ↗ - DSIP · No change
tried it for a week with Muse and saw zero change.
In context ↗ - BPC 157 · No change
BPC 157 is not useful for thèse condition. I tried it.
In context ↗ - magnesium · Helped
LDN helped me, as well as magnesium.
In context ↗ - antihistamines · Not said
Maybe the LDN or antihistamines I’m taking have helped; hard to say.
In context ↗ - Whoop and Muse EEG headband · Not said
I use Whoop for overnight HRV and a Muse EEG headband for deep sleep.
In context ↗
Approaches: Physiotherapy and rehab · Supplements
Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, with time counted from when the illness began. Hover or tap a point. The first step with a time is 4.5 years after onset: the story doesn’t say how ill they were before that. The dashed part: the story doesn’t say when. 1 step says too little to place on the scale and is only in the table. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
Show as a table
| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | long COVID beganYes, LC since 2021In context ↗ | Not stated | |
| — | full 100% recovery lasting a yearI had a full 100% recovery for 1 yearIn context ↗ | Recovered | |
| — | down to 80%, could not do sportsbefore going down to 80% (just not being able to do sports)In context ↗ | Near normal | |
| late 2025 | COVID again dropped them to 30%Right now I’m at 70% because of a Covid againIn context ↗ | Moderate | |
| March 2026 | back to 70% with meds and supplementsI’ve never recovered so fast (30% to 70% in 3 months)In context ↗ | Mild | Low-dose naltrexone |
| July 2026 | at 60-70%, trying KPV peptidesI relapsed 8 months ago, and now I am at 60-70%In context ↗ | Mild | BPC-157 |
| October 2026 | felt better overall; deep sleep 55 to 75 minutesOver the past 2–3 months, I’ve felt better overallIn context ↗ | Mild |
Adverse events
- Low-dose naltrexone“At some point I tried to make it faster by reducing the time between 2 increasing or adding 0,2mg instead of adding 0,1mg. I ended up having bad intestine pain.” In context ↗ Gut side effects
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Neuropathy & tingling
it can really help that kind of needle pain. It helped me with it
In context ↗ - Post-exertional malaise
HRV tanks when I overdo things
In context ↗
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