Thanks they were definitely way more mild than my original infection in March 2020. And the way back is a little more complicated for those of us with Long Covid.
I have been very fortunate not never get Covid because I don’t be exposed by lots of different people and stay away from crowded places especially in winter season I would consider myself very lucky because over 90 percent of Americans has have Covid!
Hello Dr. Riggs, I recently bought your e-book and try to get healthy with your Strategies. I have 2 questions about my current state: 1. Can screens (Smartphone, TV) cause Symptom flare ups or even setbacks? 2. The mornings are horrible. Every time im waking up i feel like the little energy that i have left i just completely gone. Burning and tingling semsations throughout the whole body. It takes like 2-3 hours for this to get better. Is this normal while having long covid CFS? Thank you for your Videos and thanks in advance for answering my questions :)
Yes and yes. Screens are incredibly stimulating and if you’re in shut down and keep pushing yourself into fight or flight when you don’t have the energy to sustain it then you’ll crash harder. And waking up with zero ability to function is diagnostic for ME/CFS and Long Covid. That’s what polyvagal strategies are for. You’ll probably wanna curl up like a ball here. Also you’ll probably wanna join our Facebook group where all these questions and more are answered. Link in the comments if this video.
Thank you a lot. This whole theory makes so much sense to me that i consider to try the SSP as you suggest. Is it possible to start SSP when im mainly in the freeze state?
I had the original variant in 12-19, then the other 2 variants following 2 years, i had long covid which gave me mimic Parkinson's which I thought was real Parkinson's for 2 years, i had 40 of the 50 symptoms of PK but didn't develop shaky hands or feet, i have a medical degree so I can read medical science papers and understand them, i studied neurology so much I could have a PhD in neurology, each week new studies came out and one lab figured out that the virus hides dormant in the vagus nerves, i felt my neck and it ached right on the nurve which parallels the carotid artery, the therapy for this is electrical stimulation and ultrasound, the ultrasound gave me immediate lasting relief, I'm about 80% recovered but i feel I lost 2 years of my life, i learned that 30 to 40% of people that get covid develop neurological problems wether vaccinated or not, it makes no difference, I'm livid about the discoveries I've learned that this was a bio terrorism launched on the world
Sorry to hear you went through all that. Glad to hear you figured out the vagus nerve connection. That was also huge for me (and lots of videos here). We all have so much anger. And justifiably so. I hear there is a class action law suit that started in the UK (for healthcare workers) I hope we also get one here I would happily sign on!!
I’m sorry you got covid again. Thanks for this video, it’s very thorough and helpful. I had covid at the beginning of the year, it took me 16 days to test negative and that was with taking paxlovid. I already had cfs prior to covid. Dr’s here wouldn’t give me anything to prevent micro clots and now I have this small clot in the back of my eye, which Dr’s deny being from covid. I’m going to try nattokinase
Did I hear you say we don't have trials for the efficacy of Paxlovid? I do believe you are mistaken. Having taken Paxlovid for my Covid infection, the taste was truly awful (I found it similar to having bitten a pen and getting ink in my mouth - ugh) but was quite able to manage my aversion. Needless to say, I was glad when my course of treatment ended. It is still recommended highly (and tested), so I suggest that folks do their best to deal with the taste. Covid infection for me was quite mild.
There are a number of trials using Paxlovid to treat Long Covid that either show it doesn't help or the study was poor design or small sample size etc. We have zero trials to my knowledge of Paxlovid to treat acute covid in patients who already have long covid... If you have long covid and paxlovid is all you can get by all means take it. But we have better drugs with efficacy for treating acute covid for patients with long covid.
@@sallyriggs465 The Yale Paxlovid for Long COVID (PAX LC) Trial is, as far as I know, still ongoing. The attempt is to address ongoing viral pesistence, if that is an issue with some Long Covid sufferers. To the best of my knowledge, Paxlovid has better success for most people right at the beginning of the infection.
@@sallyriggs465 Thank you for your response although I must note that my comment regarding the Yale study into Paxlovid has disappeared. If treatment with Paxlovid benefits people at risk for severe disease or are immunocomprmised (New England Journal of Medicine, July 2024, Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19), could it not offer similar benefits to people currently suffering with Long Covid? If the severity of reinfections could be reduced with this antiviral, is that not a benefit to a current sufferer? I agree that we are not discussing treatment drugs, but rather viral control with reinfection. Of course, Paxlovid would have to be taken within 5 days of testing positive.
I think it isn't fair to bad mouth any colleagues protocol on the internet. But seems like this question is just trying to get me to say something controversial. This video is about how to recover from Acute Covid. Are these acute covid treatment protocols? Are they vastly different to the FLCCC one...?
That's fair enough. For acute covid that FLCCC protocol has been around since 2020 and they have added to it as evidence has emerged. If you want to share the other two I can give you my thoughts based on the research, but if they are fairly similar often it just comes down to "what can I get prescribed"...
@@samanthapurcell3125 So sorry to hear that Samantha. Sounds like he needs to watch my preventing covid infection video!! And well done you for not getting it!! 🤗
great question, I was using Korean KN94 because they fit me the best (and I struggle with head straps giving me migraines) but now when I go to high risk settings I wearing an Aura 3M N95 (and tolerate the pain).
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Glad to see you back! You haven’t made a video in a while!
Hope that your symptoms was mild🙏🏽❤
Thanks they were definitely way more mild than my original infection in March 2020. And the way back is a little more complicated for those of us with Long Covid.
I have been very fortunate not never get Covid because I don’t be exposed by lots of different people and stay away from crowded places especially in winter season
I would consider myself very lucky because over 90 percent of Americans has have Covid!
It’s very good to see you back ❤
thanks so much Rhonda!
Nice to see you back
thanks so much Samantha!
Hello Dr. Riggs,
I recently bought your e-book and try to get healthy with your Strategies.
I have 2 questions about my current state:
1. Can screens (Smartphone, TV) cause Symptom flare ups or even setbacks?
2. The mornings are horrible. Every time im waking up i feel like the little energy that i have left i just completely gone. Burning and tingling semsations throughout the whole body. It takes like 2-3 hours for this to get better. Is this normal while having long covid CFS?
Thank you for your Videos and thanks in advance for answering my questions :)
Yes and yes. Screens are incredibly stimulating and if you’re in shut down and keep pushing yourself into fight or flight when you don’t have the energy to sustain it then you’ll crash harder. And waking up with zero ability to function is diagnostic for ME/CFS and Long Covid. That’s what polyvagal strategies are for. You’ll probably wanna curl up like a ball here. Also you’ll probably wanna join our Facebook group where all these questions and more are answered. Link in the comments if this video.
Thank you a lot. This whole theory makes so much sense to me that i consider to try the SSP as you suggest. Is it possible to start SSP when im mainly in the freeze state?
I had the original variant in 12-19, then the other 2 variants following 2 years, i had long covid which gave me mimic Parkinson's which I thought was real Parkinson's for 2 years, i had 40 of the 50 symptoms of PK but didn't develop shaky hands or feet, i have a medical degree so I can read medical science papers and understand them, i studied neurology so much I could have a PhD in neurology, each week new studies came out and one lab figured out that the virus hides dormant in the vagus nerves, i felt my neck and it ached right on the nurve which parallels the carotid artery, the therapy for this is electrical stimulation and ultrasound, the ultrasound gave me immediate lasting relief, I'm about 80% recovered but i feel I lost 2 years of my life, i learned that 30 to 40% of people that get covid develop neurological problems wether vaccinated or not, it makes no difference, I'm livid about the discoveries I've learned that this was a bio terrorism launched on the world
Sorry to hear you went through all that. Glad to hear you figured out the vagus nerve connection. That was also huge for me (and lots of videos here). We all have so much anger. And justifiably so. I hear there is a class action law suit that started in the UK (for healthcare workers) I hope we also get one here I would happily sign on!!
Bioterrorism? Really?
Thank you
More than welcome!
I’m sorry you got covid again. Thanks for this video, it’s very thorough and helpful. I had covid at the beginning of the year, it took me 16 days to test negative and that was with taking paxlovid. I already had cfs prior to covid. Dr’s here wouldn’t give me anything to prevent micro clots and now I have this small clot in the back of my eye, which Dr’s deny being from covid. I’m going to try nattokinase
Does the clot hurt ?
Did I hear you say we don't have trials for the efficacy of Paxlovid? I do believe you are mistaken. Having taken Paxlovid for my Covid infection, the taste was truly awful (I found it similar to having bitten a pen and getting ink in my mouth - ugh) but was quite able to manage my aversion. Needless to say, I was glad when my course of treatment ended. It is still recommended highly (and tested), so I suggest that folks do their best to deal with the taste. Covid infection for me was quite mild.
There are a number of trials using Paxlovid to treat Long Covid that either show it doesn't help or the study was poor design or small sample size etc. We have zero trials to my knowledge of Paxlovid to treat acute covid in patients who already have long covid... If you have long covid and paxlovid is all you can get by all means take it. But we have better drugs with efficacy for treating acute covid for patients with long covid.
@@sallyriggs465 The Yale Paxlovid for Long COVID (PAX LC) Trial is, as far as I know, still ongoing. The attempt is to address ongoing viral pesistence, if that is an issue with some Long Covid sufferers. To the best of my knowledge, Paxlovid has better success for most people right at the beginning of the infection.
@@sallyriggs465 Thank you for your response although I must note that my comment regarding the Yale study into Paxlovid has disappeared. If treatment with Paxlovid benefits people at risk for severe disease or are immunocomprmised (New England Journal of Medicine, July 2024, Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19), could it not offer similar benefits to people currently suffering with Long Covid? If the severity of reinfections could be reduced with this antiviral, is that not a benefit to a current sufferer? I agree that we are not discussing treatment drugs, but rather viral control with reinfection. Of course, Paxlovid would have to be taken within 5 days of testing positive.
How do you feel about Dr Galland, or Dr McCulloughs Covid protocols?
Do you think it makes sense to see a ND for long covid recovery and prevention?
I think it isn't fair to bad mouth any colleagues protocol on the internet. But seems like this question is just trying to get me to say something controversial. This video is about how to recover from Acute Covid. Are these acute covid treatment protocols? Are they vastly different to the FLCCC one...?
@@sallyriggs465 they seem similar to FLCCC. I’m just trying to figure out what to do, lots of different info.
That's fair enough. For acute covid that FLCCC protocol has been around since 2020 and they have added to it as evidence has emerged. If you want to share the other two I can give you my thoughts based on the research, but if they are fairly similar often it just comes down to "what can I get prescribed"...
My partner has just had his 4th covid , same time as you, the worst one so far
I did not get it , as I have long covid and not vaccinated, he regrets having 2
@@samanthapurcell3125 So sorry to hear that Samantha. Sounds like he needs to watch my preventing covid infection video!! And well done you for not getting it!! 🤗
What mask are you using? Thanks.
great question, I was using Korean KN94 because they fit me the best (and I struggle with head straps giving me migraines) but now when I go to high risk settings I wearing an Aura 3M N95 (and tolerate the pain).
Can you get Covid rash in mouth, anyone know?
yes rashes are very common with covid19 because of the Mast Cell Activation that it can trigger