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Seeing people are sharing stories ... I'm a pretty healthy 41-year old, I live in New Zealand, got two Pfizer shots in late 2021, then got Covid in April 2022.
by benhoyt 4y ago
Seeing people are sharing stories ... I'm a pretty healthy 41-year old, I live in New Zealand, got two Pfizer shots in late 2021, then got Covid in April 2022. It was like a bad flu, but I recovered from the main symptoms after a week or so, and felt drained for another few weeks. So far so good.
But ever since recovering from Covid I've had this tightness/squirming feeling around my stomach/gut at night, and it really hinders my sleep. I've been to the doctor several times. Nothing's wrong with my heart, and nothing major with my gut either; he can't figure out what it is. At this point I'm starting to wonder whether it's psychosomatic, though I'm not an anxious person, and wasn't terribly worried about Covid. The timing definitely coincides with my recovery from Covid. I'm hoping it just goes away eventually...
- ls15 4y agoThere have been some articles that suggest that Covid can linger in the gut. I am not advertising it, but I certainly don't regret looking into alternative self-therapies with supplements (vitamins, minerals, probiotics, antioxidants) during recovering from Covid. In my case, the moderate CFS that I had for years before Covid miraculously mostly disappeared as well.
- taolegal 4y agoIt seems like there's an impact on the gut microbiome from infection, and I suspect that a dysbiotic gut microbiome is specifically a cause of severe covid. I think that's a relatively neat explanation for why countries that aren't pervasively obese & eating horrible food faired relatively better in terms of covid mortality.