Covid and PSP: My husband who has PSP has... - PSP Association

PSP Association

9,375 members11,414 posts

Covid and PSP

Rose1sunflower profile image
4 Replies

My husband who has PSP has Covid now (for the first time). He is in our community hospital for IV fluids and antibiotics. They said Covid medication is arriving today. Recently he has had bad reactions to new medications tried and I’m concerned about these. Have any PSP people had medication for Covid? How was the reaction to this?

Thank you

Written by
Rose1sunflower profile image
Rose1sunflower
To view profiles and participate in discussions please or .
Read more about...
4 Replies
LostinHeadSpace profile image
LostinHeadSpace

Hello Rose,

So sorry to hear about the Covid! My husband reacts very badly to certain medications, and thanks to someone from this forum, we figured out that it was medications which are processed in the body using the CYP 3A4 pathway…You can just Google each medication with that and find out if a given medication uses that or not? (Or post the medications, for us to look at the list of the ones he reacts to?)

The most commonly given medication for Covid here, Paxlovid, uses that pathway, so he couldn’t use it, so his neurologist had said in advance that if he gets a bad case of Covid, we’d have to try to get…I can’t quite remember the name, monoclonal antibodies? Or something like that?

My heart goes out to you! So much worrying at a time like this! ❤️

-Lost

Rose1sunflower profile image
Rose1sunflower in reply to LostinHeadSpace

Thank you so much, that is really useful!

Simlez profile image
Simlez

Hi there, sorry to hear that your dad. My mum has PSP for about 7 years and has no history of drug allergy. She contracted COVID the second time last year (first time was okay she could still cough up and recovered on her own) and was coughing badly with low SpO2. We then took her to the doctor (Emergency department) who prescribed her Paxlovid. Her symptoms greatly improved after 1–2 doses and recovered well after finishing the full course. Thankfully we didn’t need to hospitalise her.

Rose1sunflower profile image
Rose1sunflower

Thank you for your reply Simlez. He is still coughing whether from swallowing problems or Covid I don’t know, he was still testing positive yesterday. I’m not sure what anti viral they gave him but I think this CYP 3A4 pathway may make a difference to how his body uses medication.

You may also like...

CBD/PSP and COVID Vaccine

some of the anaphylactic reactions, it has got me wondering if any research has been done on other...

PSP and \"freezing\"? PSP in Africa

But has had lots of falls and has deteriorated fairly rapidly and now the local neurologist thinks...

PSP

went to the hospital yesterday and they said my husband had PSP we had a feeling that he had this...

Psp

like shit! Has anyone else had anything like this? She has had psp for 6 years, there has been no...

Hallucinations and PSP?

for my dad who was diagnosed with PSP 6 years ago. We live in the US and my dad recently started...