the autonomic nervous system has a branch that does not use acetylcholine or noradrenaline as transmitters. instead it uses other things, like nitric oxide, ATP, serotonin, neuropeptide-Y, etc link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
Appetite gets dysregulated in #LongCovid and ME, often (not always) causing lower appetite. ME may be associated with higher neuropeptide Y pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21190576/
I had an appointment with my best dr the other day and he had a student dr with him.
Whilst the appointment wasnt about my clotting, he asked me to explain how atypically i present with pulmonary emboli and how treatment affects me beyond breathlessness
Some notes: 1. My dr knew id be ok with this and im beyond happy he did it
2. My diagnosis is pulmonary emboli but i present exactly how youd expect with #postvac#longcovid with anticoagulants stopping me relapsing
The point was that no one expected me to have pulmonary emboli. I had worsening breathlessness + positive d dimer, but didnt reliably desaturate, no pulmonary hypertension, no DVT signs, etc. Took 14 months to diagnose
OHHHH the irony. Not even a week since our paper on persuasive communication devices gets published and a paper has cited a paper of mine using device 4:
Paper: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
"Osteopontin plays a critical role in the formation of stones & is the leading organic component of urinary calcium kidney stones"
another one
Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"The generation of fresh water can be accomplished in various ways, including fog harvesting, multi-stage flash distillation, reverse osmosis seawater desalination,& so on"
Citation: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (water intake & diabetes risk)
Latest #SIRENStudy paper:
Effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine third doses and previous infection in protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infections during the Delta and Omicron variant waves; the UK SIREN cohort study September 2021 to February 2022 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Thanks to a very kind collaborator, i have some copeptin (marker of AVP) data, compared to my pre-vaccine measures👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Whilst not all samples were taken in ideal conditions, it is clear something funky is (or was) going on with my AVP. some thoughts🧵 #postvac#LongCovid#POTS
1. What i find MOST interesting is that under the most controlled conditions (9am, no fluid), my copeptin was much lower than pre-vaccine on the same day my cortisol came back much lower than pre-vaccine