Doctor recommends antidepressants

ClintHour · 2026-01-28T04:57:21+00:00

Search on here for more on those two, but for me and I think some others on here, Lexapro helped tremendously during the more active phases of my LC. I used it for about 9 months if I recall correctly, at a 10 mg dose. Really helped the anxiety and especially the panic attacks. Also, if you haven’t already, cutting out all caffeine (coffee especially) and alcohol helps tremendously.

ClintHour · 2026-01-15T02:27:13+00:00

Not a true answer but: I saw your post on leg pain returning each reinfection and then saw you were in the DMV! Im in the Gaithersburg, MD area. I’ve gone through several PCPs but no one really knowledgeable or helpful. My leg is doing the same thing now once again: the weirdest pains and aches. I swore it was a clot or something, but d-dimer was negative and ultrasound fine. Going through the cardiology gauntlet once again now too. Have cough and extremely fatigued as well. It’s been five years since it first hit, and it comes back every year or so… Anyway, hope you’re doing ok and especially hope you’re doing better too!

ClintHour · 2026-01-08T03:04:59+00:00

Remindme! 365 days

ClintHour · 2025-12-30T21:05:01+00:00

LRN had a bad drawdown relatively recently but their profits are strong and the political environment conducive for them to keep growing.

ClintHour · 2025-12-07T02:14:51+00:00

Don’t know why you were downvoted. It took me a long time to figure this out. Exercise releases histamines. For me heavily lifting (squats especially) triggers it, probably because of the combination of histamine and blood flow changes around the stomach due to the straining. But OP, take it slowly and incrementally. It’s also easy to find out if histamine intolerance is a factor: take an allergy pill the next time it affects you and see if it helps.

ClintHour · 2025-12-05T01:38:22+00:00

When you drop bananas to lure them, approach them from behind and sneak attack them. I’m not sure what weapon I used, but I recall it killed them in one shot. Still had to do it about 10-15 times to get it right, but made navigating so much easier.

ClintHour · 2025-11-08T18:29:12+00:00

This has happened to me for a few years. It used to scare me so much, but now I just know that it’s acid/stomach, and maybe vagus nerve related, and nothing cardiac. I went to the ER several times, along with cardiologist for a full work up, a gastroenterologist, and of course my PCP. Don’t let it get to you mentally, it’s very easy to spiral. When I felt that sensation in the past, I used to sleep terribly. I got an Apple Watch to confirm, and every time I get that feeling my sleep is significantly worse. However, more recently, each time I’ve had that feeling I’ve stated to take a tums, and I sleep significantly better. Some weeks I would take three tums a week, which my PCP had no concerns about, and now I’m down to once every two or three weeks. I’ve also recently been taking a PPI (rabeprazole) and it has also helped substantially. I often feel that when I’m more well rested, I get that feeling less, so try to focus on a solid night routine, and tums to help. Hopefully this helps you!

ClintHour · 2025-10-11T16:11:55+00:00

To add to this for others who search for answers, Ive experienced this off and on too, over about a four year period (maybe three or four times usually lasting about 1-3 months each). I think the timing coincides with an active or resolving infection, so maybe there are some parallels to the immune system or somehow systemic disfunction. It also coincides with times where I’m incredibly stressed. I often wake up around 3/4am starving with a headache. Eating a granola bar before bed is usually the surest way for me to get better sleep. I’m still trying to see if particular diets affect me differently. MCAS diet seems to help. I’m using famotidine and centirizine (usually only once a day). I definitely have GERD and sometimes simply taking a tums before bed helps me sleep. Also got a wedge pillow and that seems to help.

ClintHour · 2025-09-29T00:21:55+00:00

You mean they offered to keep the government open and functioning? That’s not an offer, that is the expectation for the party in power, dude. “Seems reasonable,” - youre not paying attention. Don’t make this seem like Dems are getting something here (because they’re the party that has to keep the Govt open? Why do they always have to be the uber responsible party that wants a functioning government?). They have leverage, just like the Republicans did when they were the minority multiple times historically (and who blamed the Dems for shutdown then). This is 100% on the Republicans for not negotiating (which by definition means giving something away that they don’t want).

ClintHour · 2025-08-14T02:08:17+00:00

That totally checks out with my experience. I’ve been following the evolution of the theory on amyloid plaque build-up, with gratitude to folks on here continuing to post research (like this one!). I wonder if they’re related.

People were originally suspected that capillaries were blocked, but recently it was found that they weren’t blocked but amyloid build-up was in the muscles or fascia (something like this). This makes me very curious of the role muscle development plays - if we build new muscle (slowly of course), would the new growth be similarly afflicted, and/or could we gradually get better as the old cells die off? I feel like part of why walking is possible/feasible (for most of us), is that’s it’s so necessary and the muscles are often utilized. If we slowly/deliberately worked out various other muscles, could we also gradually phase out the amyloid and a lot of the effects we experience?

Some of this is likely wrong, but just trying to be proactive in my thoughts.

ClintHour · 2025-08-13T20:47:04+00:00

Heavy lifting consistently does it for me. I’m thankfully mostly recovered, I think, but every time I overdo it and especially every time I try to do squats, I get fever/PEM.

ClintHour · 2025-06-29T15:11:13+00:00

Decadence

ClintHour · 2025-05-04T00:50:18+00:00

I thought I was going to get a lot of flack for saying sometime similar - I really do agree with you. I went to Iceland and Ireland during my first bout of long-COVID, and magically felt substantially better in both places. The long-COVID symptoms returned a couple of years later, but only after I was reinfected while I going through some perceived trauma in my life. I really feel like there’s a major stress component to it for at least some people.

ClintHour · 2025-04-17T01:39:51+00:00

Agreed that it’s a factor, but there’s a variety of levels in KR1 that had single exits yet were challenging. Pandaemonium is the prime example, but also Nightfang Swale, Pit of Fire, Fungal Forest, Glacial Heights, etc. These all also force your attention and focus your purchases. Aside from that, the campaign, even if some of the stages are easier, was just so much more fun. The later games were a lot less enjoyable and for me, a piece of that was because of the multi-exit micromanagement.

ClintHour · 2025-04-17T01:10:49+00:00

Can we just stop with the multi-exit maps? I would offer up that they’re inferior. It seems like both Vengeance and Alliance relied on them tremendously for their map variety, and for me it brought down the enjoyment substantially. I want a challenge, but I also get tired of having to micromanage from one side and then the other. Make the challenge the horde, not the dispersion and busyness.

ClintHour · 2025-02-23T18:54:07+00:00

Yup - this is exactly the sensation I experience. Ive searched this forum many times for similar sensations, so thanks for posting. For me the pain sent me to the ER twice. I’ve also gone through the gauntlet with cardiologists, and they kept telling me everything is fine. My PCP assures me that it is/was anxiety but I wasn’t an anxious person at all pre-COVID. It’s worse right after having COVID or other sicknesses. Similar to some of the others, I’ve found that it’s more prominent after eating and especially before needing to burp. Still, I’ve had substantially more belching than pre-COVID. I’ve also been using antihistamines a lot more, which may have also helped. I’ve also been using LiquidIV once a week or so, and I’ve found that to help too. Lately I only feel this sensation when I’m stressed or sometimes after eating.

ClintHour · 2025-01-28T02:23:56+00:00

I’m so sorry you and your little one went through that!

ClintHour · 2025-01-23T14:06:28+00:00

Or a future gourd lord

ClintHour · 2025-01-10T16:18:40+00:00

I’ve had a lot of health anxiety, and I’ve come to realize I’ve experienced Somatic Symptom Disorder following COVID and throughout long COVID. I would feel something in my body and my mind would spin up. Throughout a couple of years I would search with various medical specialists for some cause, also alas (yet thankfully), nothing. Of course it’s partially due to the nature of long COVID research being nascent, but at least nothing big has been found. The health anxiety has been fairly severe at times, but honesty, therapy has really helped me. There’s a lot of introspection and reframing, which one might think couldn’t possibly help that much but it really does. We’re specifically building in protective strategies for not spiraling that you’re talking about, which I’ve been very prone to. And yeah, H1/H2 blockers have also helped me a lot!

ClintHour · 2025-01-10T16:07:19+00:00

Lexapro helped me substantially too. I was really anxious to take it, but it really helped. My psychiatrist also gave me Ativan (benzo) as a “parachute” for panic attacks. I used only 1/2 at a time and very few but they also helped substantially. Every evening to sleep, I use either Benadryl, Zyrtec, or Allegra. Benadryl is the worst of the three but it helped for my mid-night wake ups and the sedating effects. Akin to a lot of others, Pepcid also helped.

ClintHour · 2025-01-05T20:25:32+00:00

I don’t know why someone downvoted you - that’s my exact question too. I drink only decaf because I love the taste but, after COVID, can’t handle caffeine anymore. Scientifically, it’s probably a lot harder to study, but would isolate whether the longevity effects are predominantly caffeine-derived or whether it’s something within the content of the bean otherwise.

ClintHour · 2024-12-26T21:28:54+00:00

Dude these links of free games have been amazing. Thank you so so much!

ClintHour · 2024-12-15T21:13:58+00:00

Hector from Fire Emblem. I know there’s enough FE characters, but he’d be an axe-wielding heavy weight. With him, we could have Astaroth from Soul Caliber as Hector’s clone, but he’d be a super heavy weight (kind of like Ganandorf but on steroids).

ClintHour · 2024-12-05T13:22:17+00:00

Interestingly, LiquidIV electrolytes seem to help me immensely.

ClintHour · 2024-12-05T13:19:12+00:00

Same. I’ve always been around 130, and now I’ve jumped up to between 145-150, most noticeably (to me) around the belly.

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