Most in the general public would not recognize the word dysautonomia nor the syndrome called POTS. For those suffering with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a type of dysautonomia, or dysregulation of our autonomic control system, they can’t forget it. The dizziness, palpitations, syncopal episodes, fatigue, and sometimes inability to function well while standing upright…
Long Haulers COVID patients need more help than just functional medicine. For some, they need help with long term care insurance benefits or disability benefits as they cannot go back to work. Our goals are always to return our post viral syndrome patients back to a healthier more abundant life, but that often requires some…
Many parents have become quite alarmed by Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), also known as “pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS)”. The media alerted us early in the epidemic to the small number of children who developed a hyperinflammatory state from the viral infection. While the vast majority of children suffered…
While the other systems discussed over the previous weeks stood out as more disruptive of life, the GI tract and the skin are thankfully affected in lesser degrees. Interestingly, the virus can be found in stool samples an average of 28 days after disease onset despite the GI symptoms being milder than with diarrhea acutely.…
While COVID 19 touches many body systems, sometimes for months, the nervous system ranks high in both the variety of symptoms and in the prevalence among the Long Hauler COVID crowd. Like other post viral syndromes, sufferers report ongoing fatigue, malaise, mood disruption, and sleep problems. Also frequent among the Long Hauler crowd are headaches…
While my recent post addressed the lungs and the blood clotting systems, today we turn our attention to a vital organ, the heart, and how COVID leaves behind nagging problems. For many, after COVID palpitations and chest pains disrupt life up to 6 months beyond the acute illness’s end, according to a Chinese study (1). …
Besides the lung focused symptoms which Long Hauler COVID patients experience, COVID patients fear the less common danger of blood clotting given its potential for devastating effects. While the rate of diagnosed blood clots up to 1 month after the acute infection lingers below 5% in most studies, the real chances are low. But, those…
Moving beyond the big picture, many Long Haul COVID patients feel the need for a deep breath but cannot ever quite get what they need. Obviously, a viral disease which infects the lung has the potential for leaving behind some lung damage. COVID, however, could be considered an overachiever in its leftover damage compared to…
In real estate, its all about location, but for Long Hauler COVID, its all about the symptoms and then the time course. In the previous edition of this Long Hauler Summer Series, we discussed how medicine must identify the correct target in order to hit that target and hope for resolution of the disease or…
Hitting a target first requires seeing and aiming at the right target. Without that first critical step, we will never overcome the very important target known as Long Hauler COVID or Long COVID. Conventional medicine has named it PACS (Post Acute COVID Sequelae), but most online simply know it as Long Hauler. In functional medicine…