Psychiatric Drugs for Covid - 60 minutes

[Crochet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzY-yrjFpw

[AlanC]

There's a text version https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fluvoxamine-antidepressant-drug-covid-treatment-60-minutes-2021-03-07/ if you don't want to watch the video.

 

Quick summary: fluvoxamine can stop sepsis, the runaway immune response that causes severe covid. When doctors in California found a cluster of 200 cases they conducted a trial: 65 patients took fluvoxamine, none required hospitalisation. Of the rest, 12.5% here hospitalised, one died. There's a national  trial (US) going on with results expected in about a month.

 

Hopefully they'll also start looking for other common drugs that can stop sepsis.

[bubbles]

Two thoughts.

 

1 - It would be interested to see how many people on that drug (there must be a lot, given what we know about difficulty in stopping these drugs) caught Covid and their outcomes.

 

2 - They took the drug for 15 days; is that a short enough time to not become dependent on it?

[FarmGirlWorks]

This is an article about clinics opened for Covid "long-haulers." A lot of similar/same symptoms as PAWS.  Unlike PAWS where most doctors deny that PAWS is a "real" event because of the length, CNN reports, "At least doctors now know that long Covid is a real thing." I did not want to start a new topic but felt that this reporting of clinics to treat long-haulers is relevant to this topic. As in, I wonder if the treatment will involve psychiatric drugs.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/health/long-covid-clinics/index.html

Edited March 23, 2021 by FarmGirlWorks

[ThatOneGirlStitch]

@FarmGirlWorks

They share the same symptoms, do you think the study of long term covid can bring anything to the WD community? I have heard of them using drugs on covid patients with some success. But even though we have the same symptoms that cant really work for us. My brain fog doesn't understand it. 

 

Edit: i guess the only similarity is that both covid and WD attack the CNS.

[greyinmotion]

Think this is related to long Covid and psych drugs.

 

Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/health/long-covid-serotonin.html

 

Non pay-walled version

https://archive.ph/G9h30

 

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Maayan Levy, a lead author and assistant professor of microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, said levels of serotonin and other metabolites were altered right after a coronavirus infection, something that also happens immediately after other viral infections.

But in people with long Covid, serotonin was the only significant molecule that did not recover to pre-infection levels, she said.

 

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Here’s the idea: Viral remnants prompt the immune system to produce infection-fighting proteins called interferons. Interferons cause inflammation that reduces the body’s ability to absorb tryptophan, an amino acid that helps produce serotonin in the gut. Blood clots that can form after a coronavirus infection may impair the body’s ability to circulate serotonin.

Depleted serotonin disrupts the vagus nerve system, which transmits signals between the body and the brain, the researchers said. Serotonin plays a role in short-term memory, and the researchers proposed that depleted serotonin could lead to memory problems and other cognitive issues that many people with long Covid experience.

 

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There is tremendous need for effective ways to treat long Covid, and clinical trials of several treatments are underway. Dr. Levy and Dr. Thaiss said they would be starting a clinical trial to test fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor often marketed as Prozac, and possibly also tryptophan.