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by jph00 17 days ago
Wow mucosal innervation was around half in long covid patients - that's super worrying and would have nasty symptoms in practice.

The findings also support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 may cause structural nerve damage, which is perhaps the even bigger worry. :(

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What kind of symptoms? I have insane stomach issues since early 2021 that only this year started to largely subside.
Any Long Covid patient can tell you its damaged their nerves, they can feel it. Nerve pain all over and various weird zaps and shakes etc, the nervous system is clearly damaged/being damaged across the entire body.
This is I believe one of the markers for small fiber neuropathy which is now increasingly being found in association with long covid and related syndromes.
All the B12 and gabapentin in the world won't reverse the damage, but at least there's hope.