My journey-
4 years ago I built a shed. Other than hiring the roofing, I did it all myself. Spread and packed 2 truckloads of gravel for the foundation too.
3 years ago I cut down about 14 spruce trees that the beetles killed. Stripped, bucked, hauled to the woodpile, stacked.
2 years ago I was crippled so bad at some times I'd pee in a ziplock because it was too painful and/or I didn't have the energy to get to the bathroom.
Never had arthritic pain before, so when my left hip started hurting, I thought I had tweaked it cutting those trees. This was probably early October 2020. Went to the chiro a couple times, no help.
Then it moved down to the left knee. Hip started feeling better, but knee hurt like hell. By Christmas I was limping pretty bad and it was always swollen. By February I had fallen 3 times, one of those was into the bathtub. Knee would just give out like the muscles lost all tension. By then I was on crutches. It was also around this time wife was having gastrointestinal issues and was losing weight quickly. Strangely, I was too, even though I was eating. We both lost 30 pounds in a couple months. My wedding ring will fall off if I'm not careful.
Finally went for MRI at wife's urging. I was lethargic, depressed, argumentative, getting mad for no reason.
No damage to the knee, just edema of the bone. Doc says should have been major trauma like a car accident or some kind of infection for that kind of inflammation. Blood tests look fine. Sends me for physical therapy.
Before I ever got to my first PT session, knee swelling had gone down and was doing much better from exercises I was doing on my own, but now my left foot was starting to hurt and swell. Two days after my first session for the knee, the ankle gave out and I rolled it. Then it really got inflamed.
Deep sonic, massage, stretches, exercises. Two months later I finally get off the crutches and my RIGHT knee starts aching. That was it for me. Something was seriously not right and I found determination to figure it out.
By now it's April or May. Both of us are having a hard time getting a good night's sleep and my prostate is obviously inflamed because I'm peeing every hour, but not much. I'm off the crutches but still hobbling. Can barely move an empty wheelbarrow across the yard.
Then I notice my shampoo smells funny, and so does Dawn dish soap. Berries taste weird, and bananas.
About this time, I hear about long covid and it can kill your taste/smell. We are all pretty sure we had covid Nov./Dec. 2019, the kids brought it out at Thanksgiving and it was the weirdest flu I'd ever had.
I ordered fluvoxamine, and ivermectin off the internet and got the zinc, vitamin D, turmeric, etc. going while I waited. Also started chewing and eating 2 big cloves of garlic every morning on an empty stomach. Was easy at first because I couldn't taste the garlic, just the burn. Couldn't handle it after about 10 days when I could taste it again.
It only took a day of the garlic and my brain fog started to lift.
Once I got the drugs, things got better even quicker. Brain fog completely gone. Leg pain switched from being in the joint to muscular cramps. I had not sat at my electronics bench for almost 2 years because I didn't feel like I could concentrate, but I'm back at it now.
No more leg pain at all. Can sleep through the night. If I do get up to go, it's a good long piss. Mood is good again.
Wife had waited to start the drugs because of her intestinal issues, but when she started on them started feeling better clarity, better mood and less arthritis pain.
Regular Use of Ivermectin as Prophylaxis for COVID-19 Led Up to a 92% Reduction in COVID-19 Mortality Rate in a Dose-Response Manner: Results of a Prospective Observational Study of a Strictly Controlled Population of 88,012 Subjects
Background We have previously demonstrated that ivermectin used as prophylaxis for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), irrespective of the regularity, in a strictly controlled citywide program in Southern Brazil (Itajaí, Brazil), was associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection...
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