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I started loosing hair at an extreme level in 2020. I probably had Covid October of 2020, terrible cough and for about four days I was in bed only got up for bathroom, medicine and eat soup. My appetite was completely gone. I've never been that sick to the point I slept almost 24 hours straight. I love sleep but when I'm exhausted I can't sleep. That's why I think it was Covid or something, IDK. I didn't go to the doctor thankfully or I'd probably be dead. I've had bronchitis and pneumonia and this was worse. I felt like spiders were crawling on my arms from the hair shedding. After several months I got a referral to an endocrinologist. Of course had to do virtual visits. All tests were negative. I started researching hair loss. I found several articles saying dermatologists were seeing women for hair loss at much higher rates than normal. They spectated it was from Covid. I finally cured it using essential oils in my shampoo and maybe one or several of my supplements helped.
I know someone that has POTS from Covid and they didn't get vaccinated. During late spring he had a referral to a specialist for 2024. Apparently it's pretty common.
POTS syndrome
I sympathise with the loose hair. My hair not only became loose - it fell right out. All of it across my entire body! But this was 30 years ago and I think it was triggered by anaphylactic shock caused by someone spiking my cocoa with codeine-based pills.
I'm a boost, not a medical doctor, but I read a lot and understand a lot of it. Given that, here's what I see in your writing: like most named things in allopathic medicine, pots is a set of symptoms without a cause. We know that many, to if not most, skin things are immune responses, as is inflammation.
Several types of actions appear to help rebalance our immune systems against internal threats (cancer, eg) and external threats (toxins from chem sprays, food, water, eg). Anti-parasite treatments, vitamin and mineral supplementation, elimination of sugar and processed/genetically modified food (which brings along glyphosate and other extreme toxins), and lowering the pH of the blood (appears to kill parasites and cancer cells).
If you can find a naturopathic doctor to help you find the optimal combination of actions to take, that would be best. Generally I've seen that once folks take a radical stand on their diets, and see/feel radical changes, they get a lot more control over symptoms and ownership over the causes. Then, from a clean diet base, adding supplementals gradually with close observation builds a gradual and unfriended path. If any medical person even tries to talk about 'managing symptoms' instead of curing the problem, walk away.
Forgot to ask what's a boost?
Ah sorry, autocorrect! Biochemist.
I don't have pots it's a friend of a friend. I was in very minor auto accident in 1998 and after three years of medical tests, PT, chiropractor, massage, and too much RX in 2001 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. The doctor was at my primary doctor office and his wife had it. It was so unknown many doctors hadn't heard of it and they thought it was in your head. Later came other chronic pain conditions. I personally think it's a trash can disease they use like chronic pain (and many more labels) when they don't know what's causing the symptoms. I'm finally realizing exactly what you said, clean diet, change diet and avoid sugar and lots of food ingredients. I'm off all pain RX for over three years. I do get lidocaine injections and have patches, don't use it like I did years ago. I really heavily on herbs and some supplements. I agree I do need to be treated by naturopathic doctor. I've had a hard year past few years knowing something was wrong but blood tests showed I was fine. In February I went to hospital because I was throwing up several hours uncontrollable pain. After eleven hours in ER getting the pain controlled and stopped throwing up with medication I was flown to a bigger hospital. I was septic from kidney stone blocking urethra. Almost died, 3 days in hospital (2 ICU) a month later stone removed one day two days later appendix removed. I'm just starting to get somewhat to my normal. Honestly I don't know that a naturopathic doctor could have predicted this. If we lived in a society that will do more testing than blood work maybe so, IDK. I had a stone in 2012 and I know that pain. I thought the hip pain I'd had for years was due to sciatica and so did my pain management doctor. I'm so grateful to be alive and get a chance to get healthy again. It's a battle but I see the light at end of the tunnel.
I have read a lot over the past ten years about natural medicine including supplements, minerals, herbs, essential oils etc. Over the past year my comprehension has not been great. I think it's from the trauma my body went through. It's getting much better than it was.
I appreciate your helpful advice.
Whew, fren! You're on our prayer list now...
So I have family and friends in the medical fields but I never went there, because I realized early that the med schools put high value on sheet memorization. That was not my strength and felt counterproductive to actual practice. Think about that show House, where he's in clinic and uses Sherlock Holmes sort of skills to deduce the problems- THAT is what it SHOULD be. USA med schools teach the exact opposite- they implant allopathic scripts to channel a-pill-for-each-ill, and even tell them that the victim, er, patient, WILL need (list of pharms in succession) for the side effects.
Docs get scored on how closely they follow the established scripts in prescribing pills. So never go with the AMA ratings. From my understanding, the naturopaths and osteopaths (DOs) and I guess functional medicine docs will take a holistic look at sources, versus "managing symptoms'" (I just want to slap medical people who even say that)
The bloodwork is untrustworthy because 1) they don't know what to look for and 2) the labs are shoddy and possibly 3) are hiding things like parasites. A LOT of people have tried ivermectin, fenbendazole, mebendazole for other things and discovered they really did have parasites too. I have relatives who also were misdiagnosed for a stupidly long time - heartburn that was really gall bladder inflammation, headaches that were actually a brain tumor, arthritis that was really lupus, oh brother the list is long. And now you need to add in the current crop of commies on top of everything- they think you're cattle, they already thought they were gods, they hate you and want you suffering and dead.
So yes, "alternative" medicine (that honestly was mainstream before white coats declared it bad) will be our primary best path going forward. All the stuff they tell us are weeds that must be killed with carcinogenic chemicals? Check them out- they're MEDICINE. The lowly dandelion is ridiculously useful! I know for a fact from the labs that all the big pharma crap starts out from plants that were demonized as witchery and that are cheaply available. That last part is the kicker, the first part is how they did it.
Find a good alternative fix that really digs into your food and drink and everything else, who contemplates the right blood markers and works WITH YOU to understand your individual body and needs, I think you will make a lot more progress. Godspeed, fren!
Many (most) autoimmune disorders are caused by parasites - even autism. Parasites are difficult to test for unless you can examine your poop under a microscope at the right time of month.
I'd suggest investigating anti-parasite treatments such as pumpkin seeds, Hydroxychloroquine, Fenbendazole, Mebendazole, Ivermectin and MMS for starters. I'm not a doctor so do your own research.