I wonder how this could help those with long COVID.
I don’t think it’s going to help them. long covid is past the stage of virus infection. It’s where the body is attacking itself.
It depends! Sometimes it’s autoimmune, sometimes it’s lingering virus, sometimes it’s disrupted regulatory systems, etc. When it’s the immune system or lingering virus, a new vaccine can often get the immune system to relearn how to correctly handle the virus
Doesn’t chickenpox turn into shingles by infecting the nervous system?
Could long covid be related to that?
The virus that causes chicken pox, lies dormant in your nervous system, where your immune system can’t get it, for decades. Then much later in life the virus can reactivate, infect along those nerves, causing shingles.
This is the important part of the chicken pox vaccination the we don’t talk about nearly enough.
- If you get chicken pox, you’ll probably be ok (although not everyone is) and get over it, becoming immune. But the virus will still lurk, opening you to shingles attacks when you’re much older
- if you get the vaccination, you’ll probably not only not get chicken pox, but will also not get shingles
Supposedly something like one in three elderly will get shingles, when they can’t as easily deal with it. As current generation gets old, that illness will practically disappear
We can save shingles if we stop vaccinating now!
If you have older relatives and friends (50+), do remind them that we have shingles vaccine: Shingrix.
And let them know it hurts for a few days, so get it on a Friday.
Nah don’t fuck up your weekend, call in sick as needed if you’re working.
This is a good point. I do tend to get my vaccine shots (Covid and flu) on Fridays to account for recovery days.
the varicella vaccine prevents severe infections, but its not entirely protective against it, it just makes you asymptomatic, and once you get reinfected it can still become dormant, and get hsingles, just less chances of getting it.
different issues. varicella can cause shingles, when it travels to your dorsal root ganglia near your spine or the ganglia in your head,or rarely it can become dormant in your autonomic nervous system.
varicella, a herpes isnt the same thing as coronavirus. long covid is just laymen terms for complications or sequalae. Covid can trigger shingles, because your immune system is fighting the covid virus instead of shingles.
Took me over half a year to get over covid.last time. I coughed so.much and so hard for so long I got a hernia.
Sometimes I like to pretend that it’s still 2020, and the past 5 years or so have just been a COVID-induced fever dream
Me in 2020: Man, this year fucking sucks!
The year 2025: Hold my beer.
Many long COVID infections are causing/caused significant damage to organs (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11834749/). A vaccination isn’t going to reverse organ damage.
long covid, aka sequelae (medical term) means you had a long last complication that seperate from the virus. the inflammation couldve damaged parts of your body you are chronically suffering from. it might not help, since its not caused by the virus anymore.
its basically like having PHN, or nerve damage after shingles, the vaccine wont help you with that.
Well, I’m fucked.
Sometimes the nody heals though slowly, for me it took a first 6-9 months to get over the worst, and I’m way better today.
So I’ve read up a good bit on this topic / issue. Many times long covid can be a result of the infection causing neural damage which then leads to long term inflammation. While this isn’t the only reason for it, doing a protocol to repair damaged neural tissue and receptors has been effective with people I know. It has reduced or removed the symptoms they experience.
