Virus Ruminations and Observations
Following what has been a long and rather dark winter for me personally, I finally found the courage to reach out to a colleague for help in recovering. I guess we must always remember the old saw about “he who has himself for a physician, has a fool for a physician” and look outside of our own knowledge and expertise when healing seems difficult or ineffective.
In spite of my long weeks of RSV, Covid, bronchitis, depression and unexpectedly deep grief for the recent loss of my mother, I have had many equally long days to think about, research, read and translate the landslide of information about Long-/Post-Covid in comparison with my own experiences.
And so many of my observations are not backed up with studies or any deep meta-analysis but come from my background of experience (now more than 50 years of participation in this amazing field), training (as a teacher) and the ability to correlate that information into an overview perspective.
I have seen an interesting similarity in symptoms of acute Covid and Long-/Post-Covid as well as vax reactions. You will find some definitions of these terms in the articles posted this month on the use of antioxidants and ozone therapy. However the common symptoms (besides the darn cough) for all of these conditions are a form of hyper-inflammation (not necessarily the much dreaded Cytokine storm) and a combination of fatigue/exhaustion leading to cognitive disturbances.
With my mother (sorry to carry on, but I miss her since we lived together for the final 20 years of her life) on her birthday in early April last year she was a healthy-for-her-age, vibrant and busy elder and not very impressed that her age had reach triple digits plus one. We went to a concert at an huge event center, went out for dinner and shopping. Shortly after her birthday, she remarked about a return of many symptoms that she suffered as reaction to our forced 1st and 2nd Pfizer vaccinations. Primarily there was a rapid increase in pain, inflammation and paralysis due to her arthritis. It was an inflammation that ravaged her frail body leaving her in heavily medicated agony. She rapidly declined mentally and physically as the inflammation burned through her, and she died a few months later. In discussions with our physician a short time later, my question was “why was she in so much pain?” His response – “I have no idea. It’s a mystery.”
Within my own personal experiences, as I approach the beginning of week 12 after first infection, many of the initial, acute symptoms are somewhat reduced while the two major symptoms continue without relief in spite of treatments to date. I too, have experienced an unending attack of inflammatory responses throughout my body – not only to Covid, but also to a re-initiation of almost everything that I have medically experienced during my life.
This too, it appears is becoming more and more common. Where many patients who suffered an illness (even a virus infection or cancer) but recovered and defeated it even years ago, are now experiencing a stronger return where a natural immunity or the ability to defeat it are diminished. How can this be?
As I’ve worked through the recent translations (and I peaked ahead at the three remaining from this enlightening 2022 Issue #5 of Erfahrungsheilkunde) a number of consistencies formed in my brain fogged mind that went beyond the symptoms. One of the biggest is the basis for all the many approaches being used to treat this huge sector of patients is infusions of high doses of Vitamin C. Looking back at my initial articles on Covid published 3 year ago now, there it was front and center. We’ve treated viruses successfully and effectively with high dose Vitamin C for a very, very long time. Even then I wondered why we needed all the restrictions and vaccines, when we could already effectively treat. But I digress again . . .
At this point in my meditations a theory started to form for me. Any statistics I’ve seen recently indicate that the more booster injections the person has received, their chances of becoming ill exponentially increase. Those with no or even 1-2 injections are not left out however, and still often do not recover from the acute illness fully because of lack of effective treatment and usually also isolation – or at worst hospitalization.
And what is the major symptom? Hyper-inflammation leading to oxidative stress leading to fatigue and cognitive disorders. Why all the inflammation? Is it really a mystery? I don’t think so. First we need to be treating our patients with acute Covid – or RSV, or BB, or whatever today’s scare tactic is – effectively with complementary and orthomolecular approaches. If treated quickly enough, the acute illness can be defeated.
But again, why all the inflammation? You’ll see some of the studies and articles that I’ve posted recently from this Issue of the Erfahrungsheilkunde journal, but let us think about it from another perspective.
In spite of all the corruption and lies surrounding the vaccines, and in spite of all the negative traits and ingredients of the vaccines, there is an element – granted a small one but still a significant one – of truth. When attacked by an infection (I think Covid or anything viral) the much touted defensive spike proteins claimed as the effectiveness of the vaccines are triggered and quickly go to work – they do what they said they would. However, there is now evidence that these spike proteins are in conflict with our natural and innate defense mechanisms. This conflicting response itself triggers what should be a healing “fever” or inflammation. But, there is no “off switch” or “stop mechanism” for the spike protein which continues seeking throughout the body where it sets off the inflammatory response over and over again to the many previous and/or current co-illnesses. Perhaps the trick here is to create or insert that “off switch” early in the illness course.
But perhaps the “fly in the honey” of my observations is that I find it interesting that the unvaccinated can also progress into Long-/Post-Covid when not effectively treated quickly at the onset of the acute illness. A valid observation or not, it is certainly something to consider as we go forward with our goal to treat all of our patients regardless of their vax status.
That’s all for this time. Be well and be healthy . . .
Carolyn