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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 when i came down with "covid" february 2-5 2020 i discovered very quickly i had to stay very still and consciously slow my breathing

the cough made pain in my intercostal muscles around the ribs almost within half an hour, it was an unprecedented fatigue onset for a cough, i think i got up a few times in that 3 days to go to the toilet and drink water but it was mostly a case of "meditate yourself to sleep, this will pass"

nastiest flu type illness i have ever experienced in my life, and i can see how it could be deadly to someone with several of the conditions i have. good thing i've moved right the hell away from the population!
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matata | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 i also got sickest ive ever been in March 20.. 
no cough tho, but a crazy "unknown virus" (eventho they already gave out covid diagnosis) - i was bed ridden for 3/4 weeks, and most intense were the headaches and what seemed like little, but strong strikes of pain throughout my body 

but after this, only been sick w smol flu max 7 days total over 4 years (whereas i got sick like 5 times a year before) 

no idea what happened there, but not complaining 😂
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah, there is definitely something related to pain common between what we experienced, it definitely reduces natural pain blocking

and yeah i'm not surprised you acquired some strong immunity after fighting it 3 weeks... man, that is one hell of an ordeal, and in that time your immune system probably coded up an encyclopedia of antibodies

i already rarely get flu and colds... i tend to attack it pretty hard when it starts with endless fresh oranges and lots of sleep
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mak | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I had the same experience inverted houses at a small airbnb! Also moved to remote place as well!
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mleku | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 a problem i developed during 2023 from drinking energy drinks with sucraloce and acesulfame K was double vision, which i at first thought was wernicke-korsakoff syndrome... 

one of the signs of it is a failure of the eyes to do their normal left-right orbit, moves in the wrong direction, etc etc...

it made it extremely difficult to read text on an LCD screen because the screen paints the pixels in an alternating checkerboard pattern and when your eye jitter is abnormal you get not just multiple images but due to the way LCDs paint, mangled multiple images

made it reallly really hard to read for a while and it turned out actually this is also a symptom of type 2 diabetes

so actually, it seems like i had a rapid onset of type 2 diabetes by drinking artificial sweeteners

further data to add (anecdotal ofc) was that UHT milk seemed to perpetuate this problem, though it diminished a lot of other aspects (muscle weakness, persistent infections) and i recently threw out a huge stack of this i had left over as i was well and truly back on normal food, mainly salads and cheese and toast

i still have a bit of the vision problem now but it's gone away a lot, so yeah, just could well be that there is a neuromuscular effect with these new GMO fucking cold viruses that are now normal, the real new normal, and nerve  disorders are on the rise, i can almost guarantee you within two years it's going to be in all the news about the "mysterious epidemic of neuromuscular degenerative disease" and early onset alzheimers

i remember literally decades ago reading that there was research that showed that several artificial sweeteners accelerate onset of type 2 diabetes, and the symptoms list, you should have a look at it because it seems a lot like dysregulation of glucose metabolism is now an epidemic everywhere, almost everyone has one or two symptoms of it, be it overweight, muscle weakness, memory problems, vision problems...