Is there anything to do or not do to avoid lingering Covid symptoms?

Ivermectin

I would say listen to your body. On my first run after COVID, my lungs felt "weird". Cut that run short, and waited a few more days to try again. Smooth sailing from that point on. YMMV.

load up on vitamin c

Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, lots of Vitamin D, antiseptic gargle and nasal spray.

I heard ivermectin is a horse tranquilizer. do you know anything about that

And horses love to eat Apples.

You are definitely asking on the very wrong website for serious help.

But if I could go back in time four years I would have taken it way way easier coming back to running after covid.

Covid loves to bind to ACE receptors in your body and all exercise produces tons of histamine which is a massive problem for covid and long-covid.

Covid and long-covid also mess with muscle refueling, glucose, glycogen, fat burning and ATP, the cells are starving even if there is energy present, it won't take it. Which is a guaranteed way of injuring yourself.

There are millions of people with long-covid. Half of it is genetics and unavoidable, but pushing yourself to return to fitness is also going to put yourself in a world of hurt.

If nothing else, stay way below your previous lactate threshold pace for weeks, this means NO SPEEDWORK, no fartleks, none of that, it can wait.

If you tempt fate because you feel fine, you might not feel fine the next day and next month or YEAR.

Google and maybe reddit are your friends for better answers, few are going to be useful here.

Geckos love to eat insects. Since Bill Gates wants us all to eat insects that must mean he thinks we’re geckos? Attempting to discredit a medication because it is also useful in animals is hilarious logic only made funnier by midwits that think this is some kind of awesome burn.

Covid's key morbidity is it exposes how full of fecal matter your diet, lifestyle and health habits are. Everything you've gotten away with doing comes crashing down all at once when you get it, and how long it drags you down with long covid depends a lot on how you've handled yourself to date. It's a reality check.

If you clean your diet up completely, high protein (1g per lb of bodyweight at least), whole foods, no processed anything, plus you're as active as you can get away with and you spend time outside in the sun every day, you can clear long covid up within a couple weeks. But you have to be airtight consistent with it.

just steadily build back up, dude. remember you did nothing for a week. start short, build tiny increments.

personally i did a little walking every day when i had covid while my mucenix had dried my passages. hoping that avoided pneumonia from sitting or laying around all day. about 5 days to stop draining like mad. about 10 to not test positive. as soon as i stopped draining i began mini-workouts again. you will feel like a train hit you, if you were symptomatic. accept it. do a little. stop. do more the next day. stop. build back up. 2-3 weeks you'll be back to normal. don't pout about it, you were sick.

one theory of long covid (and stuff like chronic lyme) is it may be your body either doesn't entirely clear the virus from the blood/lymph systems or leaves some particles that then continue to trigger the immunity and inflammation responses. like you feel better and not covid sick but you still have either some debris or a few virus cells here and there. a lot of what people register as sickness is your immune response, drainage, swelling, etc. so it's people with sensitive immune systems triggered by a little virus or particles.

morons on the right talk about a strong immune system but what you actually want is someplace in the middle. people with sensitive immune systems that attack everything may be more susceptible to autoimmune -- their body sees too much as a risk, even self.

the guy lobbing around ivermectin is clueless. ivermectin is a de-wormer. parasites (and asthma) are a different set of immune cells than viruses -- eosinophils. ivermectin is people on the right got confused that when this virus was new and we had no clue how to stop it, they threw the kitchen sink, and some moron heard an experiment with ivermectin and got stuck. it's one of the experiments in a pandemic that didn't work. get over it.

Me: Age 64, zero-dose unvaccinated.

Don't rush back to your level of pre-illness activity. That was easy for me in January 2022 when I got sick with Omicron. I had already started a planned break from running in mid-December 2021. As with recovery from any illness, listen to your body. Hope you get well soon.

Covid is such a weird disease. Long covid has a much wider range of conditions than flu, for example. Personally, I would err on the side of caution when returning to running.

Day 7: All symptoms gone, except I continued to have intermittent fever at times throughout the day through day 10.

Day 10: Attempted very easy run. Aborted early. Covered about 1/3 of planned distance.

Day 12: Attempted easy run. Abort about 1/2 planned distance. VERY easy.

Day 14: Finished planned distance at VERY slow pace... about 3min/mile slower than easy pace.

Day 15: Returned to gym. Near normal workout. Resumed normal gym routine.

Day 21: Resumed normal running routine with concessions that I had taken three weeks off.

No further problems.

I followed the FLCCC protocol for long COVID recovery, except I did not take Ivermectin because I couldn't obtain it. FLCCC protocol is below.

yeah long covid also has a way to catch high performers.

anyhow my advice with covid is to really rest and get back to training in easy steps. orherwise you risk long covid.

everytime i got sick i would go out trying to run after a few days. i never waited patiently till I was cleared. as a result i am already a year in long covid. all the pop is out of my legs like never before. Long covid recovery is rare. I am doing my best to get it done.

I am now thinking to try HBOT. have lots off supplements and take h1 and h2 type of antihistamines. I am ok but more like a former superhero without any powers. often hobbyjogging. I would like to come back to racing but it seems far away.

so really take your time. 2 weeks is nothing. imagine 20 years of endurance base gone with the winds. suddenly an old man really.

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Too bad there’s no keyword message / thread block feature… how many would permanently block posters that mention “COVID”?

This is the best advice. Some people feel fine right away, but be extra cautious and go by feel. My case threw off my training and had me dealing with intermittent fatigue for around 8 months. Unless you enjoy struggling through 2 miles at 9 minute pace, give yourself extra days or weeks of short, easy running right now and as long as needed.

Don't take that Paxlovid crap

All my alcoholic friends never caught it. Get the beers down you!

COVID v BEER is like JAKOB v The NEXT GUY in the 1500.

Also why are you all still calling it Certificate Of Vaccination Identification? It's almost like it isn't real.

Keep intensity low for a while. Maybe monitor heart rate.

Here's discussion on how Covid converts slow twitch fibers to fast twitch fibers...and how to get them back:

Will the usual suspects give you any credit for being 100% correct on this ?

"Paxlovid: Impact on death, hospitalization rates in older vaccinated adults weaker than thought"

"Paxlovid does not significantly reduce COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality among vaccinated older adults, according to new UCLA-led research."

newsroom.ucla.edu

Paxlovid: Impact on death, hospitalization rates in older vaccinated adults weaker than thought

New UCLA-led research questions the assumption that Paxlovid’s effectiveness in reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in unvaccinated adults also applies to vaccinated adults.

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