Hey Flip-
I’m on vacation so my response will be short here, but I’m happy to elaborate after if you had follow up questions.
First, I agree with Rita about the magnesium if that is the issue (low mag), however with most of my patients who are complex medically (and yours are complex too usually I think) those jerks are about brain inflammation usually infectious in nature (Sydenham’s, Lyme, Bartonella, etc). And of course, something like CoVid could upset the balance of a patient with not yet diagnosed chronic issues with tick-born issues, or those in remission. So I would consider a “dive” into the possibility of CoVid having unmasked something like these. (Side note here: while I expected my complex medical patients to do worse with CoVid than the standard human… oddly/unexpectedly those in remission did NOT hardly have issues at all. I’m not sure what to say about this except maybe all of the work already done on them prevented a hyper-inflammatory response (or maybe, their immune systems were “unimpressed” with CoVid after years of serious infections and so didn’t “over-react”).
Chest pain in this patient scares me. Is it possible that this was in response to a second mild case of CoVid reactivating the antibody response to CoVid and having these attack her heart muscle, etc? I have seen this many times now (both first and second cases). We have a cardiologist we have been working with since early CoVid who helps us with these. Lots of them have normal “cardiac work ups”, and still need treatment due to the angina being vascular spasm (inflammatory) related as opposed to a structural cause. These patients have responded to colchicine, Nitroglycerin/isosorbide and indomethacin. Regardless of the cause of lack of blood flow – damage can be caused.
Lastly, a “shout out” to Dayan and his plasmalogens (see “Trusted Sources”) ….
In my N of 6, his Glia has almost completely turned around up to 1.5 year long long-haulers’ neuro symptoms, and up to 5 mos persistent O2 requirements within 1 week. Truly, I have cried with patients (joy) with the miracle of this supplement on more than one occasion.
-cynthia (who wasn’t as “short” in her response as expected)
*Michael, I agree the mind-body-spirit connection can be miraculous. I have often seen chronic illness inspire my patients to change themselves/their lives/their beliefs, thereby inciting healing/health/wellness. In fact, I aim for helping patients to accept the invitation of chronic illness to re-evaluate and re-define who they are in the world, how they live, what their goals are, etc. While noticing that chronic illness announces that something in their life isn’t working thereby inspiring change doesn’t always bring about the type of cure you saw; using chronic illness as a “wake up” call is rarely a waste of time. While we all know this, it is worth restating that not all suffering that we aim to help heal is physical.
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