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Having been diagnosed with dysautonomia in 1993 (a side effect of mitral valve prolapse), I've been spelling it a long time! My husband and I had what turned out to be covid in early November. We thought it was influenza but treated with the FLCCC covid protocol anyway. I had a negative home test for covid but ended up in the ER severely dehydrated which is where I tested positive - and got no help other than fluids and anti-nausea meds. I would NEVER have gone to the ER if that home test had been positive. I know their "no treatment" protocols and the hostility I'd encounter when they found out I am a "pure blood." We did get appropriate treatment 2 days later via telemedicine and started to get better.

BUT, my dysautonomia is out of control and it started during the covid infection. Normally, I manage it successfully with exercise, but that has not been an option since a serious injury Oct. 1. The nighttime anxiety which translates into no sleep has been the worst. The only solution is medication while I work to get my system back in sync and take care of the gut dysbiosis. It's still the pits right now.

BTW, dysautonomia used to be called "soldier's heart" and was first noticed during the Civil War. But when women started presenting with it, it became a neuroses, not a physiological problem!

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Thank you for the notice. Happy to have found you here, too.

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Off topic, but I just received my copy of "Gone Viral" today, along with Megan Mansell's "Accommodating Chaos". I look forward to digging into them both in January. All of you folks helped keep me sane in 2020-21 and I am so thankful. I don't know how I would've made it. I am stuck in Covid Cult Central Chicago, where people are STILL masked. I couldn't believe how many I saw today. They're never going to stop.

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