#38-SARS-VIRUS 2018
SARS-VIRUS 2018
Hey everyone!
I saw my family doctor a few days ago and, on this occasion, I had confirmation of what I had suspected for a very long time.
While discussing my situation and the evolution of my condition, I told her that my symptoms are terribly similar to Covid Long: great weakness, extreme fatigue, headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, mental fog, difficulty concentrating and memorization, digestive disorders, weight loss (I lost 10 kg), dietary deficiencies, pericarditis, heart rhythm disorders, fever, persistent flu-like symptoms.
The list of similarities is very long. Too long to be a mere coincidence.
We now know that the Covid-19 leaves this type of sequelae in the long term. In particular, there have never been as many pericarditis and myocarditis as since the pandemic which began in 2020.
I repeated to my doctor what I said 1000 times.
I fell seriously ill in March 2018. Overnight, my life changed. 40°C fever, in a zombie state, I was shivering and delirious without being able to eat or sleep for 4 days and 4 nights. The doctor I saw then only said to me: "It's a virus, but it's not the flu, nor angina or pharyngitis. ".
When the fever finally subsided, I started coughing extremely hard. I went back to work although I was still sick and on painkillers. But about ten days later, chest pains started waking me up in the middle of the night. The pains diminished once I stood up, but my heart was not beating normally, and I felt particularly short of breath and exhausted.
Sensing that it was a heart problem, I got worried and consulted a doctor. It took me several visits and a trip to the emergency room to finally get the name of this disease: pericarditis.
I then followed a treatment including very high doses of salicylic acid (Ibuprofen) and colchicine. And very quickly, dizziness, headaches and tinnitus had me bedridden. I attributed these new symptoms to taking salicylates which are (and I learned it too late) highly toxic for the inner ears (we speak of ototoxicity).
I stopped the salicylates after 3 weeks, but the side effects still remain. Anyway, that's what I thought.
But when I see people with Long Covid talking about the same symptoms, I wonder if the viral attack was much more than just pericarditis. Especially since when I list all these symptoms, the doctors tell me that they are not symptoms related to pericarditis. However, this makes sense if it is a viral attack.
The doctors have always maintained that after a few days the virus was no longer in my body and I was cured. They call it post-viral syndrome. After virus. However, my condition continued to deteriorate for months. Pericarditis and heart problems worsened, as well as digestive disorders, fatigue, head problems, loss of balance, etc. All of this did not come all at once. My condition deteriorated for months!
The question is: is it the ears that are affected (in this hypothesis, the salicylates would have damaged the inner ears) or is it rather the brain, or the nervous system, which is affected by the virus? And is it the brain or is it the vagus nerve? So many unanswered questions.
The fact is: 1) I'm not a doctor, and 2) I'm very sick and unable to operate my brain effectively.
How could I understand what was happening to me on my own?
Coverage is still partial in the current medical system. The cardiologist only sees the heart, the ENT only checks the ears, the pulmonologist only considers the lungs. Not only is there no pericardiologist, but in addition, there is no comprehensive care. As if the human were a car, each component of which is independent of the other parts of the vehicle. Just change the brakes, but the wheels have nothing, is a phrase that probably makes sense. But for a human being, all parts are interconnected. They communicate and interact with each other. And no, there is no useless part either. Kind of: the pericardium is useless, can we remove it? Nope !!! Of course it is not useless, just like the "white matter", this organ with an unknown function which was of little interest to medicine until we realized its crucial role in the transmission of information, particularly in the context of the functioning of the immune system.
This is where I was in my thoughts when a few days ago, what was my surprise to hear my doctor say to me: “Oh yes! We now know that there was a SARS pandemic in early 2018. It's official! »
I suspected there was something like that. A kind of pre-covid in 2018, but I had never had confirmation. First, pericarditis is typically caused by coronaviruses, like myocarditis and pneumonia (which everyone knows now, but which was totally unknown to me before 2020-2021). Then, the symptoms which resemble, as I said, those of Long Covid.
Also, I remember that in the spring of 2018, as I sank deeper and deeper into the disease, many people had "very bad flu" which lasted 6 to 8 weeks, and pneumonia.
So there are traces, somewhere, of a SARS pandemic in 2018…
So why is it not written in any of my medical reports? All these great specialists that I have consulted (and there are many of them) are they therefore not aware? The last neurologist I consulted sent me packing without a shadow of remorse.
4 long years to learn this crucial information. No doctor who takes it into account. And I am certainly not the only chronic patient in medical wandering.
When are we going to take into account people's suffering and health?
KEEP FIGHTING. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Pericordially yours,
Vali