That was it. The anosmia is a dead giveaway. Some people with long haul covid are benefiting from one or two doses of ivermectin because the virus might be hiding out in the body in small quantities. But that is probably not the case with your moderate case. You could try pepsid ( maybe 3 or 4 x 20mg a day) if you still have lung tightness. Those nerve cells in your nose are probably dead from what I read but will regenerate in a few months. Nice Vitamin D dosing.
Oh, so it kills the nerve cells? I was under the impression that it was caused by a zinc deficiency. I never lost taste btw. And I fell 100% better now. One morning after about 1.5 weeks I suddenly woke up and coughed real good and the tickle was gone and I no longer felt fatigued or out of breath. For the first few days I just laid prone in bed a lot and took supplements/ate soup. I also had a bit of a fever, but the worst was over after about 4-6 days.
I was just re-researching this and it seems like there may be some controrversy over whether it is nerve damage or just damage to supporting epithelial cells in your nose. It could be both.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell
This could mean the difference between a few weeks to recover smell or 5 months or more. My guess is that your mild/moderate case did not cause serious nerve damage.
So that 4 to 6 days was the viral phase where the virus is replicating like crazy, then the body starts producing pretty good antibodies. And the viruses start to die off.
At that point,if you have a lot of dead virus in your body you get the “severe covid” because your immune system is just freaking out to all these foreign bodies. That little spike protein seems to be very very nasty even when its dead. That fatigued, out of breath period after the fever was the “severe covid” phase, but luckily you didn’t have too much of the virus left over. Some of the fatigue may be due to heart inflamation apparently.
Heart inflammation? Wow, that all sounds like a pretty fucked up virus. Hope it didn’t do too much damage. I had been taking vitamin D and K2 while eating healthy for over a year before I actually got sick and I’ve been working around the sick since the beginning.
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