Hi Moro, I do not get respiratory symptoms with Covid anymore, haven’t since the Omicrons. By the time I have bone pain and neurological issues like tinnitus and headaches and tingling sensation in my body, it's too late to prevent anything. My primary acute and long COVID problem is GI symptoms. Electroacupuncture helped me tremendously in regard to fatigue and dysautonomia.
GI Covid has been described here-
"Lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. These may not be the symptoms people expect with covid, but around 50% of people experience them after SARS-CoV-2 infection, and in some people they’re the only symptoms.1 Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms may be the first sign of infection or may develop later and persist as part of long covid."
Long Covid manifests in multiple ways. A complete enumeration of possible signs, symptoms, and diagnosable conditions of long Covid would have hundreds of entries. Any organ system can be involved, and patients can present with the following:
• Single or multiple symptoms, such as shortness of breath, cough, persistent fatigue, postexertional malaise, difficulty concentrating, memory changes, recurring headache, lightheadedness, fast heart rate, sleep disturbance, problems with taste or smell, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea.
• Single or multiple diagnosable conditions, such as interstitial lung disease and hypoxemia, cardiovascular disease and arrhythmias, cognitive impairment, mood disorders, anxiety, migraine, stroke, blood clots, chronic kidney disease, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and other forms of dysautonomia, myalgic encephalomyelitis–chronic fatigue syndrome, mast-cell activation syndrome, fibromyalgia, connective-tissue diseases, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren’s syndrome.
The best approach to prevent long Covid manifestations is to treat yourself early if you get a respiratory symptoms, particularly if you test positive for Covid. An appropriate combination of classical respiratory medicines, including anti histamines would do. Long vax is a sister condition, almost similar in presentations, if one has had repeat m-RNA vaccines. In the USA which has had repeat infections and repeat vaccinations, atleast until end 2023, both long conditions could be present
Hi Moro, I do not get respiratory symptoms with Covid anymore, haven’t since the Omicrons. By the time I have bone pain and neurological issues like tinnitus and headaches and tingling sensation in my body, it's too late to prevent anything. My primary acute and long COVID problem is GI symptoms. Electroacupuncture helped me tremendously in regard to fatigue and dysautonomia.
GI Covid has been described here-
"Lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. These may not be the symptoms people expect with covid, but around 50% of people experience them after SARS-CoV-2 infection, and in some people they’re the only symptoms.1 Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms may be the first sign of infection or may develop later and persist as part of long covid."
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q842
In 2024 Long COVID was defined and described-
Long Covid manifests in multiple ways. A complete enumeration of possible signs, symptoms, and diagnosable conditions of long Covid would have hundreds of entries. Any organ system can be involved, and patients can present with the following:
• Single or multiple symptoms, such as shortness of breath, cough, persistent fatigue, postexertional malaise, difficulty concentrating, memory changes, recurring headache, lightheadedness, fast heart rate, sleep disturbance, problems with taste or smell, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea.
• Single or multiple diagnosable conditions, such as interstitial lung disease and hypoxemia, cardiovascular disease and arrhythmias, cognitive impairment, mood disorders, anxiety, migraine, stroke, blood clots, chronic kidney disease, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and other forms of dysautonomia, myalgic encephalomyelitis–chronic fatigue syndrome, mast-cell activation syndrome, fibromyalgia, connective-tissue diseases, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Sjögren’s syndrome.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2408466
The best approach to prevent long Covid manifestations is to treat yourself early if you get a respiratory symptoms, particularly if you test positive for Covid. An appropriate combination of classical respiratory medicines, including anti histamines would do. Long vax is a sister condition, almost similar in presentations, if one has had repeat m-RNA vaccines. In the USA which has had repeat infections and repeat vaccinations, atleast until end 2023, both long conditions could be present