I’m finding more and more people are seeking treatment for the longer-term effects of Covid-19, even though they may have had the virus many months ago and didn’t experience particularly severe symptoms at the time. These after-effects are continuously evolving and may vary from person to person depending on how their health is to begin with.
The main symptoms I’ve come across are brain fog, fatigue and lack of focus manifesting as tightness and inflammation in the meninges of the brain (a bit like how meningitis presents), causing a lack of blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow around the brain and skull.
The nerves along the spinal chord are also inflamed and feel frayed, and gut issues are very common with poor digestion, histamine induced cortisol and adrenaline spikes making the gut feel tight, raw and shocked with a mix of diahorrea and constipation episodes. Joint pain flare-ups in weak spots are common and the adrenals and thyroid can suddenly be triggered off-balance causing exhaustion and anxiety.
Organs can feel tender and inflamed to touch or over-worked and disturbed. Rashes over the body can suddenly appear (often if a previously dormant virus is awoken in the nervous system). This is particularly common in children whose nervous systems also become inflamed causing sleeplessness, anxiety, tummy aches and discomfort and tightness in the head/brain area. Overall the nervous system seems to be the most ravaged, with any latent illnesses switched back on and weak spots attacked as the body struggles to push back on the inflammatory processes.
“Dr Putrino said inflammation from the virus might be disrupting the normal functioning of the vagus nerve - the body’s longest cranial nerve- which relays messages to the lungs, gut and heart” (Wall St Journal 01/11/20)
