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This explains why COVID vaccination is capable of treating long COVID in some cases. Hopefully this will lead to some actual treatments for long COVID (for example, a more aggressive regimen of vaccinations), at least the kind of long COVID that results from mild illness.

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Completely anecdotally but I had covid in late Feb 2020…no antibodies, brain fog and some chest pain and to my great surprise after the second vaccine two months ago I feel better than I’ve ever felt. I did sleep for 36 hours over that weekend, could be something to do with it.

Interesting, which vaccine did you get? Was it one of the mRNA ones?

Pfizer

Hate to say it but it could be the placebo effect.

Who cares? If it helps it helps.

Obviously its important to understand the mechanism so we can potentially help more people. If it was placebo, it doesnt diminish the poster’s story, it just means there’s not therapeutic correlation

I downvoted - It's anecdotal (OP states it too). You don't know, he doesn't know, no one does.

That doesn't make the experience invalid.

You simply can't credibly recommend it to someone else, which the OP doesn't do.

I have a friend who similarly recovered after her 2nd shot. She had COVID in November 2020 and was suffering long-COVID side-effects until June this year when she got fully vaccinated with Pfizer.

I met her 2-3 weeks after her 2nd shot and she was stunned on how the brain fog disappeared, she could focus and read books again, she managed to go to the grocery store after climbing down 4 stories in her house without taking a break to rest, etc.

Time is the best healer. I think this is a common fallacy that explains a lot of questionable health practices, chiropractic care for instance. I say that as a firm believer in chiropractic care. But science shows the back would heal itself even without someone cracking it. It’s no surprise many attribute the healing to the cracking. There’s a reason double blind studies are needed. The placebo effect is, like time, also a great healer.

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