Thread: Big Ol’ Mental Breakdown + Exhaustion.

Originally Posted by Edmond

#find.yer.inner.Lulu

Entropy always catches up with us I was diagnosed as on the spectrum by Dr JJ he explained Dr DD and his online remedy TD was the last hope for the lost continence

It was there I learnt of smeg and earl , blackgang, latindancer, sabang, mid, marmite lick an Ant and realized I was not a loon.

Originally Posted by Backspin

This idea that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness is scare story nonsense. It is all to do with this anti medicine movement. Opiate scripts have been falling since 2010, benzo scripts have been falling for years , penicillin scripts falling since 2017. (while the population is rising)Everything will be better if we eliminate medicine and take our organic vitamins instead right ? Yeah. And what do we have to show for this ? Falling life expectancy in the US. We are at the point where even penicillin is a vice now. So doctors are hesitant to prescribe it. And ppl don't get what tbey need in time..But hey , progress.

Antibiotic perscriptions have been going down in the US since 2017 Antibiotic prescription fill rates declining in the U.S. | Blue Cross Blue Shield

Falling antibiotic prescriptions = falling life expectancy. Thats one helluva leap of logic.

Blood clots in the brain or the lungs might explain some common symptoms of "long Covid", including brain fog and fatigue, a UK study suggests.


In the study, of 1,837 people admitted to hospital because of Covid, researchers say two blood proteins point to clots being one cause.


It is thought 16% of such patients have trouble thinking, concentrating or remembering for at least six months.


Long Covid can also develop after milder infections.


But the research team, from the universities of Oxford and Leicester, stress:

• Their findings are relevant only to patients admitted to hospital
• They are "the first piece of the jigsaw" but further research is needed before they can propose or test any potential treatments
• They tracked cognitive problems at six and 12 months only and through tests and questionnaires, which may "lack sensitivity"

Identifying predictors and possible mechanisms was "a key step" in understanding post-Covid brain fog, study author Prof Paul Harrison, from the University of Oxford, said.


But there may still be many different causes of long Covid.


Leicester's professor of respiratory medicine, Chris Brightling, said: "It's a combination of someone's health before, the acute event itself and what happens afterwards that lead on to physical and mental health consequences."


IMAGE SOURCE,SIMON RETFORD
Image caption,Dr Simon Retford is still recovering from being seriously ill with Covid in the first autumn of the pandemic

University lecturer Dr Simon Retford, from Lancashire, spent two weeks in a coma after catching Covid in October 2020, with his family told to expect the worst.


Now, he is 60-70% back to where he was before but still has problems concentrating and with short-term memory loss and losing his train of thought.


"I took on a course-leader role last May and I was like a really slow computer which struggled to get going," he says.


Dr Retford used to work for the police but would be unable to do so now.


"If I overdo it now, I feel so fatigued," he says.


But although he may never completely recover, Dr Retford is determined to remain positive.


"I'm still here and thousands aren't," he says.

• 'I've had long Covid for three years'
• What are the symptoms of long Covid?
• Brain changes seen after mild Covid

The Post-hospitalisation Covid-19 study (PHosp-Covid), in Nature Medicine, blames higher levels of the protein fibrinogen and protein fragment D-dimer for brain fog.


Study author Dr Max Taquet, from Oxford, said: "Both fibrinogen and D-dimer are involved in blood clotting and so the results support the hypothesis that blood clots are a cause of post-Covid cognitive problems.


"Fibrinogen may be directly acting on the brain and its blood vessels, whereas D-dimer often reflects blood clots in the lungs and the problems in the brain might be due to lack of oxygen."


Those with high D-dimer levels also:

• complained of extreme tiredness and being short of breath
• tended to have difficulty holding down a job

A US study found similar results.