I was a highly trained endurance athlete my entire life and covid/long-covid absolutely destroyed all of that, permanently
After 5 years I would happily trade only a 10% performance loss for the days and nights full of nerve damage pain (neuropathy)and what seems to be 30% performance loss
BTW very relevant to your daughter's story:
the first year of long-covid I was absolutely certain I had permanent lung damage and started searching everywhere for solutions
There are two possibilities that might be hopeful for her
The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely
which are simple enzymes, you can buy Natto-Serra on Amazon and very very slowly perhaps over many months it might help her lungs (this is just a guess)
Thank you for the information, and I'm sorry to hear about your struggles.
> The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely
I didn't go into too much detail in my original post, but we think this is likely what happened to my daughter. Post-COVID, she could still go for long durations at 80% but when she pushed her limits, she would hit a wall and start to experience asthma like symptoms along with the feeling like she had mucous in her lungs that she couldn't get out. It took close to 2 years for her to stop experiencing those symptoms, at which point her competitive running peers had passed her by. She's happy to be able to enjoy running again but she did lose out on the competition part.
After 5 years I would happily trade only a 10% performance loss for the days and nights full of nerve damage pain (neuropathy)and what seems to be 30% performance loss
BTW very relevant to your daughter's story:
the first year of long-covid I was absolutely certain I had permanent lung damage and started searching everywhere for solutions
There are two possibilities that might be hopeful for her
The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely
1. https://images2.imgbox.com/98/e1/gw8bO0ug_o.png
The second is much more serious and not available in the United States except experimental trials for other diseases
2. "Inhaled Tissue Plasminogen Activator" or "Nebulised Rt-PA"
https://www.google.com/search?q=Nebulised+Recombinant+Tissue...
https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/113/8/539/5818885 (look at the photos in this second link)
BUT there's something you can try right away
see this table of plasminogen activators
* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5553328/table/t0001...
at the bottoms is Nattokinase and Serrapeptase
which are simple enzymes, you can buy Natto-Serra on Amazon and very very slowly perhaps over many months it might help her lungs (this is just a guess)