Hello /sci/, hope you're all well, I'm a complete tourist but hoping to hear your thoughts on long covid and wtf I can do about it.Specifically, I've been trying to recover from the nuerocardiogenic/orthostatic sub-type rather than the fatigue/PEM/GI/MCAS sub-type, for which I am grateful. I caught a relatively moderate covid infection in April 2025. Despite recovering within a few days, I started to experience long covid symptoms within 2 weeks post recovery. My main symptoms have been bradycardic heart palpitations/skipped beats, sudden acute breathlessness, blood pressure all over the place, air hunger, severe anxiety, hopelessness, sinking/hollow chest sensations and feeling prodromal, bier spots and redness in extremities, insomnia, one instance of prolonged globus sensation, one or two instances of temporary swallow paralysis, head pressure, "itchy nerves" in my throat and chest, etc etc. However, all blood testing, 24 hour ekg and ecg have returned normal results, apart from a generally low BPM (40 during sleep), and good physical health even. Only abnormal blood test results have been borderline phosphate (0.76), elevated LDL (but normal HDL and triglycerides, good ratios), and high ferritin at 418/transferrin at 44% (but normal CRP at 1.7ish).I'm stumped /sci/, what do you think? Would love to hear opinions, experience, advice, any medfags, etc. I have theories I'm working on, but mainly just counting on time atm.Thank you for reading!/blog
>>16801724I should add for context>27m, unvaccinated>Symptoms come and go, have presented in phasic clusters, and have generally shown an improvement trajectory>Have generally lived a stressful life, ngl>Life long insomniac, physical job helped me sleep normally>Possibly undiagnosed ADD and CPTSD, but don't wanna be a whiny bitch about it>Previously good fitness (and former high school athlete)>Had just recovered from broken rib in early March (skiing)>Have tried benfotiamine and various other supplements, minimal noticeable effect.>Now looking at mind-body theories a la Dr Sarno, polyvagal theory (dorsal freeze fits me closely), possibly vestibular retraining as with cases of brain injury dysautonomiaIdk, lemme know if there's anything else I can add for context. Just kinda struggling to get through normal days at work and normal expectations, feeling like my heart could give out at any minute or that I'll have a severe episode of hypotensive breathlessness out of nowhere. I had one of those in July and my boss called an ambulance, took me all of August just to get from reclined all day to walking upright for 20 minutes. I started taking benfotiamine around this time as well, and it did appear to ar least coincide with improvement in symptoms, but I don't have any other symptoms or reasons for thiamine deficiency. Not a massive drinker, generally prefer a keto/paleo diet.Interestingly, lack of sleep and lack of food have provoked symptoms, but other times I have been on holiday chilling and still had severe episodes, so who knows.Normal POTS interventions do nothing at all, but sugar and coca cola have been the only things I've found to help intervene. No other symptoms of hypoglycemia, pre-diabetes or diabetic neuropathy etc. I'm strongly leaning towards these being neurological in nature, hopefully functional given my symptoms come and go inconsistently.
>>16801724>your thoughts on long covidVaxxed status? You need chlorine dioxide and nano zeolite.
>>16801735>unvaccinatedYou're getting what you deserve for falling for Fox News propaganda. You should be locked out of the medical system instead of wasting resources that could go to others.
>>16801852Unvaxxed>>16801862Here you go, xe/xer>>www.reddit.com
