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(This post was last modified: 07-20-2022, 09:33 PM by andrewjs18.)
(07-19-2022, 07:25 AM)Captainjonny Wrote: Thanks for the link to the medical study on Philadelphia. I plan to follow their progress. I hope they have continued success and can get the anosmia treatment approved. The cost is high, but people with anosmia that can afford it will most likely go for it. During the months I could not smell or taste anything, I would gladly have paid for the treatments.
I think as time goes on, the price will likely go down and there might even be more treatment options available.
(07-20-2022, 02:16 AM)JimmyH Wrote:(07-18-2022, 11:58 PM)andrewjs18 Wrote: the worst issue I had with my bout of covid in April of 2022 was that it gave me shingles on my head.
I lost my smell and taste for 2-3 days but it all came back fine within a few days without any lingering issues that I notice...
I think a local hospital/university here in Philadelphia is working on a treatment for those who have severe issue with taste and smell after getting covid:
https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/about-us...mell-taste
andrew18, I haven't had covid, but I had shingles on my forehead. I remember your earlier posts when it first bloomed.
No problem with your eyes ? The nerve root shingles follows from the forehead goes around, or over the eyebrow, around the temple. I have chronic dry eye in my left eye now, which I never had before. I thank God that I had gotten the shingles vax in 2013, so that when I actually came down with it in 2021 it wasn't as bad as it would have been. Bad enough though.
The doctors told me it follows whichever nerve root it begins with, had it been on my nose to start it would have went into the eye. (shudder)
Since then I've gotten the two dose new shingles vax. Not cheap but supposedly 90% effective in preventing a recurrence.
I had my eyes checked 2x, once during the actual shingles outbreak (2-3 hours after I was confirmed to have shingles) and then 2 or 3 weeks after that, just to be sure. no infection within my eye and I was still reading at a 20/20 level.
shingles is just downright awful...I don't wish it on anyone, especially not on the head/face. the headaches and itching were INTENSE.
my younger sister had an outbreak with shingles about 4-5 years ago, prior to covid, on her rib cage..she ended up having to go to the ER because of how intense the pain was...perhaps my family is just more susceptible to shingles than some others?
(07-20-2022, 09:08 PM)Vpetrishky Wrote: Usually shingles are not a Covid effect but a side effect of something interfering with the immunity. I am sure that you can easily figure out what is this something that you didn't have before 2021 and that I am not allowed to mention. My mother has now many patients with the same immunity issues, all of them officially listed as side effects of .... The very best treatment for everything mentioned above for her and for many other independent physicians is intermittent fasting to restart the immunity, Ivermectin (if you can't get black seeds oil works too), n'acetyl cysteine, Zink. In some countries now the intermittent fasting is part of the national health policies. I hope you guys recover fast.
https://thevigilantfox.substack.com/p/ca...ling?sd=pf
I mean getting sick with covid does weaken your immune system...and I have been taking vitamin c, d & zinc tablets for 2 years, every single day, since covid was officially announced.
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
