In the Mirror today, on the medical page, there is an article about how long covid can affect the way your brain works.
"It wasn't long after the pandemic started that we realised coronavirus targets not only the lungs, but the heart, the brain and other vital organs. The effect on the brain was particularly puzzling..."
Patients had severe depression, hallucinations, paranoia, brain fog, anxiety, unable to think straight or hold onto memories, fumbling for words.....
Link made to those with traumatic brain injuries, HIV - yet no mention of B12 deficiency...could this be the missing piece of the puzzle ?
Research has shown that DMB can be a useful covid treatment for hospitalised patients: vitamin D, magnesium, vitamin B. Singapore studies showing patients treated with these will have less severe symptoms and significant reduction in their need for oxygen. ("Be Well: A Potential Role for Vitamin B in Covid-19")
Martyn Hooper (Pernicious Anaemia Society founder) has made the comparison between symptoms of long covid and PA - and alerted medical experts to this similarity.
It does look strikingly familiar, doesn't it ?
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Could be a combination of both, although I suspect she was on the lower side, along with Iron .... which seems to go together. Unless she had blood tests for b12 prior to catching covid (highly unlikely) no one will know.
The trouble with b12 its very sneaky at first and you might think you are just having an off day below par,
It's not really noticeable until things become obvious
The body and brain are letting you down. How many times I thought perhaps I was over doing things, and just needed to rest a bit more.
Another relative thirty year old had the 1st covid jab and developed blood clots, was hospitalised for two weeks. He has been referred to a haematologist!
But since then his father was admitted too hospital with pneumonia, and they discovered he had P.A.
He has also a blood clot ! Now all his off springs are having tests. So I think there might be a connection with covid, even the covid jab affecting b12.
What I find very disturbing is the fact that B12 deficiency is far far worse than most deficiencies !
Yet is so overlooked with G.Ps and even treatment is some what abysmal.
One thing with covid and long covid you are hearing more more people being treated with b12 injections
It's been said by lots of us with B12d but, like with treatment for borderline people and giving enough treatment for sufferers, it seems, stupidly, to fall on deaf ears (there's none so deaf as those who won't listen)!
Apprently COVID affects yours methylation pathways - if I remember right it both burns through b12 and folate quicker but also it’s impact on the body requires the body to have more than usual in store. When I had Covid, twice i started to take a bit of a dip and twice I gave myself a b12 injection and felt much better. Of course can’t say if in my case it was a placebo or not but it would make sense that it helped.
My acupuncturist had been using b12 injections for her long Covid patients also to great effect.
Completely anecdotally, i thought I had long COVID (and I did: my fatigue got much worse after getting sick, and I had a cough for 8 months!) but last year I discovered a long term b12 deficiency. My fatigue has been so much better since I started addressing it.
However, my partner also had long COVID, and his b12 levels are excellent. It's likely that what we call long COVID is actually a bunch of different issues put together.
Thought I'd just add that people can show severe symptoms of B12 deficiency with a serum B12 result that is well within normal range (from personal experience).
I know when I had my first covid injection it bought on my B12 symptoms and I did report it to the relevant NHS website then when I got covid I was pretty certain I had it even before the test confirmed it
Also, Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are similar. Dr Bruce Patterson is doing a lot of research on it. There was an article on PubMed that showed how CFS Patients did better the more B12 they took. If memory serves, the ones who fared best injected three times weekly and took oral B12.
I had COVID in April 2020 (yes, early in the pandemic for the US). The exhaustion lingered for months and I never really got back to fully energy level. Smell and taste affected for 10 months. Skip ahead a year to May 2021 and I began having neurological symptoms that lead to a PA diagnosis. I can’t figure out if the already low B12 made me more susceptible to COVID or if COVID led to the PA. My theory is that I was already B12 deficient but not to the point of symptoms and COVID just sped things along.
And b12 deficiency patients can't make enough antibody for most disease. And since covid is so contagious it can affect any person with PA or b12 deficiency. But remember flu still kills more than covid but no one knows why there is no restriction for that yet!
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