I would request Christine to listen to a conversation between Dr. McMillan and Dr. Shankara Chetty, two brilliant physician researchers on treatment aspects of long covid they had just a week ago. It is in the former’s sub stack. Obviously she needs to get to a more thinking physician like them to get to the bottom of her long covid condition. A hard prospect in the USA. As for her shingles, it could be a detox as she believes, but more likely age related. Both me and wife had shingles within an years gap some ten years ago in our 60s then. The active part got over within a month. But remnant symptoms (pain and irritation) took a few months to disappear completely. She was on Pregabalin for 3 months, while I had it for six months. I was also on weekly methyl cobalamin shots for 3 months. It is a more annoying rather than debilitating condition, though as a viral infection initial rest is well advised. Moro Balakrishnan, Bangalore, India
This is brilliant. Thank you for posting. Although I cannot understand much of the science, I can grasp the concepts and particularly the information on potential treatments if the problem is senescence.
I was already taking Quercetin and Curcurmin (amongst many other supplements) based on other long covid protocols, and have been taking them for about 6 months. But I now have an additional complication. I have recently come down with quite painful shingles (T1) to add to a whole range of other neuropathic issues. But, at the same time, when I look in the mirror, I have started to think "you are looking pretty good for your age" - that is, I am looking healthier and brighter that I have since before I got covid. So I have been wondering how I can be so sick and looking good at the same time.
I have started wondering if an outbreak of shingles could, in fact, be a detox resulting from improved health rather than an illness resulting from compromised health. As the senolytic supplements are normally recommended for anti-aging, that makes sense, but not if my immune system is seriously compromised at the same time, as normally indicated by shingles. It's just one of those "long shot" questions I am asking. I feel I have not yet understood what shingles really is. The information on the web is one person's writing, repeated thousands of times, so it is hard to get any kind of decent understanding of why a virus (chicken pox) is stored in the first place, why it is released, and why it takes a different form (shingles) and behaves differently when it is released.
I know shingles is on the rise since covid, so there is a relationship, but might shingles be a response to what the immune system and/or other treatments are doing to combat long covid - which may be triggering the release of the chicken pox virus? Given I am looking so well in contrast to 6 months ago when released from hospital, maybe it is a strengthening immune system that is causing shingles?
As I say, just speculation. (And note, I am unvaxxed so this is not vaccine injury. Also note that my blood oxygen since recovering from covid is reliably somewhere between 98-100%)
I would request Christine to listen to a conversation between Dr. McMillan and Dr. Shankara Chetty, two brilliant physician researchers on treatment aspects of long covid they had just a week ago. It is in the former’s sub stack. Obviously she needs to get to a more thinking physician like them to get to the bottom of her long covid condition. A hard prospect in the USA. As for her shingles, it could be a detox as she believes, but more likely age related. Both me and wife had shingles within an years gap some ten years ago in our 60s then. The active part got over within a month. But remnant symptoms (pain and irritation) took a few months to disappear completely. She was on Pregabalin for 3 months, while I had it for six months. I was also on weekly methyl cobalamin shots for 3 months. It is a more annoying rather than debilitating condition, though as a viral infection initial rest is well advised. Moro Balakrishnan, Bangalore, India
This is brilliant. Thank you for posting. Although I cannot understand much of the science, I can grasp the concepts and particularly the information on potential treatments if the problem is senescence.
I was already taking Quercetin and Curcurmin (amongst many other supplements) based on other long covid protocols, and have been taking them for about 6 months. But I now have an additional complication. I have recently come down with quite painful shingles (T1) to add to a whole range of other neuropathic issues. But, at the same time, when I look in the mirror, I have started to think "you are looking pretty good for your age" - that is, I am looking healthier and brighter that I have since before I got covid. So I have been wondering how I can be so sick and looking good at the same time.
I have started wondering if an outbreak of shingles could, in fact, be a detox resulting from improved health rather than an illness resulting from compromised health. As the senolytic supplements are normally recommended for anti-aging, that makes sense, but not if my immune system is seriously compromised at the same time, as normally indicated by shingles. It's just one of those "long shot" questions I am asking. I feel I have not yet understood what shingles really is. The information on the web is one person's writing, repeated thousands of times, so it is hard to get any kind of decent understanding of why a virus (chicken pox) is stored in the first place, why it is released, and why it takes a different form (shingles) and behaves differently when it is released.
I know shingles is on the rise since covid, so there is a relationship, but might shingles be a response to what the immune system and/or other treatments are doing to combat long covid - which may be triggering the release of the chicken pox virus? Given I am looking so well in contrast to 6 months ago when released from hospital, maybe it is a strengthening immune system that is causing shingles?
As I say, just speculation. (And note, I am unvaxxed so this is not vaccine injury. Also note that my blood oxygen since recovering from covid is reliably somewhere between 98-100%)