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John T Smith
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November 21, 2023
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Metformin for Covid ???

  • November 21, 2023
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In the article "Outpatient treatment with metformin reduced long COVID incidence by about 41%"

Back in 2019 I went on a cruise to the Caribbean (out of Miami on the Symphony of the Seas) which MANDATED a completed (2 shot) Covid card... so I got the 2 Pfizer jabs and cruised

I have NOT taken a booster shot since then (I do get an annual Flu shot)

I do 90++% of the shopping at grocery and other stores and I have NOT caught Covid (I do stay away from other people in the stores)

I am also type 2 Diabetic and take Metformin daily... hmm... I wonder if Metformin is also a preventive?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00299-2/fulltext

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    Chuck Uebele
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    November 25, 2023

    For years, when traveled for work, they asked what my blood type was. I never knew. At a physical a few years ago, I thought I would ask. The doctor didn't have it. He said they would charge extra to have it check, even though I had a blood panel done. He suggested that I give blood, which I did. I'm A+.

     

    @Nancy OShea interesting info.

     

    @John T Smith I suppose the drug could help, but don't know. My wife and I have had our first vaccines, but that's it. We have never had covid, whereas many of our friends who have gotten all the boosters have had it several times. We went out to lunch every day during the peak, went to the stores that were open, etc. My personal, uneducated, layman's opinion is that we might have gotten several low dose exposures to covid, but not enough to contract it, which might have helped our immune systems fight off a larger exposure to it. Our daughter got it once. She's O+, and she knows for certain that she got it from a covid patient, she had, who took off their mask and coughed, on her.

    Nancy OShea
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    November 26, 2023

    I'm B+ and I got Covid 3 times from my O- husband 😷.

     

    The first Covid was pre-vaccine during lockdown. I had major fatigue, no appetite, brain fog and kept smelling gasoline. But I recovered in a few days.

     

    The second infection was Omicron.  That went right for my lungs and I was flat on my back for several days.  Very nasty.

     

    The third time was in-between vaccine doses.  It was less severe than previous ones but I lost weight & was off my routine for 4-5 days.

     

    I haven't had my latest vaccine dose yet.  But I plan to get it with my flu shot well ahead of Christmas. 

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Chuck Uebele
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    November 26, 2023

    That's a shame you got it so many times. My wife and I actually aren't sure if we had it. My wife got very sick in November of 2019 and was sick for months. I didn't get what symptoms that she had, but in March of 2020, I was having some minor breathing problems: short of breath and slightly painful to breath. At at time covid test were pretty much nonexistent. When I gave blood, they checked for covid antibodies, but found none. Perhaps it was too long a time period. 

    Nancy OShea
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    November 21, 2023

    Only about 6% of U.S. adults have reported Long Covid symptoms that limit their day-to-day activities.  It's effects have been compared to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome + headaches & body aches that last months or years after getting COVID. 

     

    Do you know what your blood type is?  Early research suggests that your blood type could be an indication of how COVID will effect you.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237493/

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    John T Smith
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    November 25, 2023

    >Do you know what your blood type is? 

     

    Hmm... does Red count?

     

    Seriously, I don't know... the only surgery I have ever had was arthroscopic on a knee to trim some ripped cartilidge... and since that was just a tiny hole to insert an instrument there was minimal bleeding and no reason to test my type

    Nancy OShea
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    November 25, 2023

    My blood type is on my birth certificate.

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert