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I don't know if this therapy is substantially different, but the Wikipedia page on the general subject of "Ozone Therapy" is not very encouraging, to say the least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_therapy

Well, I got my 4th vaccine shot of the year... OK, it was a flu shot, but it was the most painful of the four. There was a real burning sensation under the skin near but not at the point of injection. It didn't feel like the needle hit a nerve. It felt like something very "hot" was spreading...

So why aren't doctors dropping like flies from CSS?

Oh, I don't know. Their arguments sound pretty "psycho-logical" to me. ;)

Not surprisingly, you can die from losing one-half to two-thirds of your blood. I actually would have guessed that the threshold was lower than that. The percentage is probably constant, but the volume would vary with body size. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsanguination

To some extent, this sounds a bit like sleep deprivation. Poor sleep, interrupted sleep or just plain lack of sleep can catch up with you over a period of days, so you may not recognize the origin of the event when your brain finally says, "That's it. I'm done for a while." It's just a guess...

I wonder if the clot hypothesis is even necessary if the microcirculation were constricted enough to slow down the transit of red blood cells. I'd assume it couldn't be so constricted that it would stop blood flow entirely or you'd start to see cell death. It again reminds me of the outbreak...

I don't think this has been mentioned but, sadly, actress Dawn Wells of "Gilligan's Island" fame died of Covid-19 almost a year ago on 12/30/20. She was 82. She had been living on her own, but came down with Covid-19 shortly after she moved into an assisted living facility.

As I feared, it seems as though Ngram Viewer's 1988 citation for "post-exertional malaise" may have been spurious. I did some further checking and found that Dr. Melvin Ramsay's 1988 book "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Postviral Fatigue States: The Saga of Royal Free Disease" contains both the...

Good catch. I'm pretty sure that 1988 CDC report doesn't actually contain the term "post-exertional malaise," so it seems like it may have been used in some other publication of the time, possibly one written in the wake of the CDC paper.

Great detective work @Sly Saint. Google Books has a feature called the "Ngram Viewer" which allows you to check the frequency of usage of words and phrases (in books and in other printed material). It may be spurious, and Google Books won't reveal the source, but the first reference to "post -...

Ooops! Don't ask me how, @ahimsa, but somehow I mistakenly thought the last line of your post referred to a booster shot rather than the shingles shot. I blame my own booster shot reaction for my mistake! (Which is possibly true :banghead:). I removed my reference to your post to avoid further...

I got my Pfizer booster yesterday and my reaction to it was somewhat stronger than to the second shot. The fever was the same as the prior injections (101F/38.3C), but the symptoms have been somewhat more intense: persistent headache, chills and just overall feeling like it was worse than the...

So, he's never heard of Guillain-Barré Syndrome ? [ETA: Another major cause of GBS is foodborne contamination with the bacteria Campylobacter jejuni.]

Hmmm... If nothing else, this seems to presume that patients with PASC are deconditioned - but aren't there people getting PASC well after having recovered from Covid, or subsequent to asymptomatic Covid? How are they instantly getting deconditioned? I had recovered from the infection...

The title of Wessely's 1990 article, "Old wine in new bottles, neurasthenia and 'ME' " was meant to suggest that the "old wine" of neurasthenia was being "remarketed" in the "new bottle" of "ME." Basically, it was a sarcastic way of saying "What was old is new again." It's also an inversion, or...

The article refers to Long covid as a "new disease" or "new chronic condition" four times. If long covid turns out to be the result of the same biological dysfunction as ME/CFS, it's hardly going to be a "new disease."

Somehow, I don't get a warm, fuzzy feeling when psychologists and psychiatrists use the term "commitment therapy." In my dictionary, the definition of "commitment" as "confinement to a mental institution or hospital," comes several definitions before "a pledge or promise; obligation," and...

FWIW, this article in Science Daily refers to the "insolubility" of the micro clots and mentions a "pathological fibrinolytic system." Could the clots themselves just be indicators of some other dysfunction that is more directly related to the effects seen in Long Covid?

I think this could be a very important question. The delay between an infection and onset in some people might suggest that some opaque process has begun. Some random "malfunction" has occurred and that malfunction is propagating until it reaches a point where its interference with normal...