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Medications that could hypothetically help Long Covid induced MCAS:
Mirtazapine, Amitriptyline, Clonazepam, Quetiapine, Olanzapine, CBD oil, famotidine, fluvoxamine, and Loratidine(H1 blockers).
H1 blockers work but don't get to root of problem (low serotonin).
"Could low-dose lithium treat long COVID? UB launches clinical trial to find out"
'Lithium has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects'
https://t.co/QK31oefEWx
Hello everyone, just an update. Throughout my almost 4 years with long COVID, the fatigue has been in different stages. Starting in June of 2023, the fatigue took a turn for the worst and has been the worst it's ever been since I've started this illness. It's still like this
Hello everyone, just an update. Throughout my almost 4 years with long COVID, the fatigue has been in different stages. Starting in June of 2023, the fatigue took a turn for the worst and has been the worst it's ever been since I've started this illness. It's still like this
Why have the intermittant, partial lockdowns that happened in 2020 & 2021 been retroactively characterised by some as something akin to 2 full years of solid isolation & mass, total solitary confinement with little to no social interaction? They certainly weren't like that in UK.
"I've never doubted it — people are suffering," says @hmkyale, a cardiologist at @Yale involved in #LongCovid research. "But we're now seeing imaging evidence, biopsy evidence, physiologic testing evidence of derangements in people who have long COVID." https://t.co/cZ9NXwCyWh
I simply cannot understand why a substantial part of the #LongCovid biomedical research isn't focusing on understanding & treating chronic mast cell over-activation which is clearly behind symptoms in a large sunset. The way it's being ignored by researchers is beyond bizarre.
Summary thread of the oral-vascular-pulmonary model of #COVID-19 lung disease, why this is important and what to do about it.
Also potentially relevant in #LongCOVID@SpringerNature review - https://t.co/TY1l0TRDBE
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