[treprinum]

I switched to carnivore 100% for a month when I started improving. I was taking mitochondrial supplements like megadosing B1/B2/B3/Niagen/NMN, CoQ10 + PQQ, L-carnitine, R ALA, pterostilbene. I took 1000-2000mg bovine lactoferrin with up to 120mg iron bisglycinate and 25-50mg benadryl for nights. I mixed my own AXA1125 (BCAA, Glutamine, NAC and Arginine + vitamin C) and took about 50g a day of that. I took endothelial stuff like nattokinase, serrapeptase, aspirin, diosmin:hesperidin, aescin, curcumin, quercetin, K2, ginkgo, pycnogenol/OPC, omega-3, kyolic, hawthorn berry. I ate 1 non-sweet chocolate a day (100% Lindt) to raise adiponectin and PQQ. I took like 5g of magnesium bisglycinate and potassium citrate a day. Daily workout was important even if it sometimes went to painful headaches which I controlled by ibuprofen and tylenol (the first two weeks were particularly horrible). Lately I added stuff like astragalus, artemisinin, dandelion root, boswellic acid, trans resveratrol, red beet, PEA + luteolin. I feel 1000x better than in February when I thought I could die at any moment.

[candiddevmike]

Good luck unpacking all of that and coming off of it. A few of those things you probably shouldn't be on (daily aspirin), a lot of it you shouldn't stay on (all of the *ase, combined with aspirin is a huge bleed risk), and most of it has no evidence around it on examine. I think the exercise helped more than your cocktail of woo.

[treprinum]

That's where I think you are wrong, read my earlier comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862855#36865016

COVID seems to be an endothelial illness, i.e. preventing blood from delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells. Moreover, spike protein seems to act as iron transport inhibitor hepcidin meaning you might end up with a lot of iron outside cells with cells getting into functional anemia. -ases + 100mg aspirin were about trying to break down "microclots" for which I didn't have a direct evidence as no lab was willing to do the test but only indirect evidence from some Australian medical doctor that only started recovering when adding -ases + aspirin + endothelial stuff to his mix.

See:

https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-...

[Exuma]

Wow, thats quite the list. Saving this in case I know anyone with similar problems.

My dad lost his smell sadly

[japostoles]

Please see my comment on the parent -- my lingering symptom was loss of smell, along with some cardio issues. While I haven't tested the cardio side "for real, for real" yet, I'm a couple months in with that concoction and my sense of smell is back to what I remember prior to my covidx2 experience.

[dunefox]

Would have been interesting if you had logged your biodata with an Oura ring, or so. I'm planning on doing something like this to get out of a kind of fatigue and sleep problems. I also have a rowing machine, incidentally.

[treprinum]

I only tracked data with my smartwatch, my resting HR was basically going down from over 100 to under 60 in 1 month. Oxygen level was 95-99% all the time, but I never got ScvO2/SvO2 measured in the hospital (some say LC folks have only 20-40% SvO2 which is ICU level).

[dunefox]

Which watch? They're differing quite a lot in accuracy. Heart rate is mostly fine, but I wouldn't necessarily trust Oxygen or sleep phase tracking. https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist

[treprinum]

I think it was one of the Huawei watches.

[empressplay]

much of what you're taking helps with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, which is common with long Covid

[treprinum]

It's possible it was a component of that but I never specifically tracked MCAS symptoms. I basically took everything anyone remotely mentioned as helping them or appearing in some medical literature if it was OTC ;-)