SubJeff on 28/12/2020 at 20:12
You should probably see someone.
demagogue on 29/12/2020 at 01:18
I do, and they'll check my heart rate and blood pressure et al and say there's nothing out of the ordinary, and say something like it may be stress or anxiety related. That sums up long covid in a single scene, and I'm in a few FB groups where it seems like 10Ks of people all reporting the same experiencing. Anyway, it's not a new thing, it's just a return of the old pattern. (And I did go to the hospital during the first wave just to be sure it wasn't really something new.)
I know its rhythms pretty well by now. It just comes in quick waves, and mercifully it always fades away after a few hours and I feel normal like it nothing was ever there. I think the two biggest issues are (1) it's kind of debilitating while you're going through a wave, even if you know it'll fade away soon, and (2) it really messes with your mind because it doesn't leave much or any physical trace, a lot of doctors aren't sympathetic, and you yourself start second guessing what you're going through, (which does lead to anxiety which probably does amplify it), and the whole thing messes up your well being well beyond just the physical effects by themselves. While I don't think it's an engineered disease, it sure seems to be made to create a lot of practical mayhem.
Cipheron on 31/12/2020 at 05:13
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https://www.ajc.com/life/study-vitamin-d-deficiency-found-in-over-80-of-covid-19-patients/A6W5TCSNIBBLNNUMVVG4XBPTGQ/)
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COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Spain were overwhelmingly found to be deficient in vitamin D, according to a new study.
Researchers discovered 80% of 216 COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla had a vitamin D deficiency.
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A small, randomized study saw that only one of 50 people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were administered a high dose of a type of vitamin D, calcifediol, required treatment in the intensive care unit. That’s compared to the group of 26 people who were not given calcifediol in which 13 of them had to be treated in the intensive care unit.
This is definitely promising. Even though that's only 76 subjects, it was a randomized trial, and the number who needed intensive care went down from 50% to 2% between the two groups.
Azaran on 31/12/2020 at 06:18
I saw another trial where they gave Vitamin D to critically ill patients, and it had no effect, ergo you have to start supplementing with it before things go south, ideally before you ever get sick in the first place.
Vitamin D deficiency is probably also a factor in 'long covid'
SubJeff on 31/12/2020 at 10:08
Do you have a reference for that?
SubJeff on 31/12/2020 at 11:27
I mean Vit D playing a role in Long Covid.
Azaran on 31/12/2020 at 15:25
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https://ca.style.yahoo.com/experts-sign-open-letter-vitamin-d-coronavirus-155639133.html) This was the article I saw
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Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to an increased risk of viral respiratory infections in general, as well as inflammation.
It has been suggested severe coronavirus complications may come about when the immune system over-reacts to the infection, triggering a widespread inflammatory response that damages vital organs.
This may also be responsible for long COVID, where complications linger after a former coronavirus patient tests negative for the infection.