A year ago, at 28, I got an almost unnoticeable covid infection. Healthy, in the best shape of my life, balancing a demanding PhD with an active social life. I was taking part in everything life has to offer. Now I wonder if I will ever be active again. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

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@organichemusic None of this is medical advice obviously, I am just telling you my experience. I did try to get Paxlovid but nobody even knows what that is in Switzerland lol.

Then Lactoferrin I wanted to take as something that would help defend the gut and raise the immune system. Not much to back it up here, this was more of a personal choice and remembering some old tweets from @organichemusic.

Nattokinase is quite safe and a seriously studied supplement. It has been tested in auto-immune conditions at high-dosages, see for example: . Crucially I had already been taking it at different dosages and was always comfortable with it.

Nattokinase is a nutraceutical that also degrades fibrin which I hoped would decrease the established production of fibrin amyloid microclots. It has also been theorized (or shown? not sure) to degrade the spike proteins of various viruses. Importantly I was taking it already and.

(I had 0 symptoms in the first infection aside from a huge increase in thirst). Second, I decided to increase my Nattokinase intake to two pills 3x a day (that’s 12.000 Fus, 600 mg), and to take two pills of Lactoferrin 2x per day (1000mg). Why? ⬇️.

Do I attribute how it went for me to anything? Not really, it's impossible to know. But I can tell you my opinion (which is nothing more than an opinion). I was happy with having symptoms this time around. For me it meant my body was fighting, which didn’t happen the 1st time.

deteriorated tremendously after a recent reinfection in the Christmas holidays. This person has a more respiratory type of #LongCovid despite completely common respiratory exams (however I have seen this person turn blue in bad moments, it's concerning).

I am very grateful for how this wend and to continue my turtle-like improvements (well, at this point idk if I am actually improving or just prefer to think I am but very slooowwwly). I am aware others have much worse experiences and I personally have a friend with #LongCovid who.

Now, what’s the ultimate outcome? My gastro problems took around 1 week to resolve from onset, fatigue remained pretty intense for like 3 weeks and then resolved, and around one month and a half later I was back to my previous baseline.

Honestly, this was a really weird thing to see and I ended up losing 5 kgs (11 pounds) in 7-10 days. Idk if because of this, or just the infection course, but truly bizarre experience and the weight loss was/is very noticeable for everybody around me!.

Few days in I started getting very fatigued. I basically felt it was accumulating, as if sleep wasn’t doing much despite sleeping 8-9 hours/day. On like day 4 or 5 I noticed I was bloated and wasn’t really digesting food (surely you can imagine on your own how I noticed this 😐).

This time around I got really sick. Fever for 4 days, body aches (very pronounced and uncomfortable), tiredness, a lot of thirst, some headaches, but barely any respiratory/throat symptoms aside from a very occasional cough.

First, some context: #LongCovid since Feb22 with considerable fatigue, a cardiovascular presentation suggestive of POTS, and intolerance to physical exertion (not really PEM). Reinfection was something I was dreading, as I was afraid it would exacerbate/worsen these symptoms.

Soooo… I got reinfected with covid last year (31st of October 2023) 😒 Now that it’s been three months I thought I would share my experience! . See the thread 🧵

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Such an impressive advocacy from our friends in the United States and what a huge momentum for #LongCovid 🥳. Huge thanks to everyone involved for all your effort and achieving this impressive result 🙏🏻.

I still have one more grant proposal to submit at the end of the month, and then hopefully I will have some more time to dedicate to this account :).

Obviously I don't know yet if I am getting it (nor will I know until May/June) but am really proud of what's written! Let's see what the gods of funding will say 🧐.

Posted back in October and my account has kinda stopped since them. The cool reason behind it, is that I have been working a lot behind the scenes to shift my work towards #dysautonomia and #LongCovid. Yesterday I finally submitted a huge grant proposal on these topics! 🥳.