Now I’m ticked off that the doctor gave me those off-label drugs plus a Z-pack that I didn’t even need because it wasn’t in my lungs- yet didn’t even tell me about Pepcid when I had told her I just had an upper gastric scope done just a few days earlier for severe GERD effects. Would have helped me with both things.
I'm going to post the protocols I use
I keep a pack of Pepcid AC- the kind you take every 12 hours, maximum strength and a pack of Reactine the maximum type every 24 hours. (cheapest at Costco)
One unopened fresh pack of each. I go thru Reactine regularly for my allergies but I note the expiry on the Pepcid AC.
I don't buy generics of those, nor do I buy other drugs in the acid reducer or allergy pills because not all of those class drugs are ACE 2 inhibitors. The Reactine, and the Pepcid AC are ACE 2 inhibitors.
The protocol I follow is to take both as the pack recommends- Pepcid every 12 hours, Reactine every 24 hours, maximum dose at the first sign of trouble if I think I'm starting a really bad feeling cold or flu.
The symptoms for Covid remain extreme fatigue, nausea, sometimes diarrhea, sore throat, pneumonia type symptoms, cold going quickly from the nose/throat to the lungs and fever and chills. The later versions of Covid started to lose the nausea symptom but that nausea and the diarrhea that came with are because of the sudden output of mucous and other fluid from the dying ACE 2 Receptor cells lining the GI tract.
If any of that nonsense starts up, I start taking those to plug up my ACE 2 Receptors in my GI tract and Respiratory tract and then this next thing. BIG BLUE!
I continue to also have a bottle of blue Listerine, the alcohol and the herbal mixture they use is proven effective at stopping viral replication in the back of the throat. Gargle 4 x a day or even oftener. I start when I feel like I'm coming down with something, and continue till I feel considerably better. That stuff tastes foul but it does help. G and I used it whenever the granddaughters seemed to be extra germy. I still do. Prevents colds too. Because the way that works is it kills off the viruses that are replicating in the nose and throat when you gargle. Reduce the viral load and you give your immune system a running chance to fight it off.
I continue the Reactine and Pepcid AC combo though for at least 2 weeks or till symptoms subside, and if at any point things get bad, I go see a dr in emergency and tell them my concerns.
It doesn't have to be Covid, if I feel a chest infection coming on, going down into the lungs, I don't wait till I'm gasping for air, I get down to emerg where they can prescribe a weeks worth of Prednisone to stop the problem. I have asthma and Prednisone is necessary when I catch a cold- it just goes straight to my lungs.
Something I've bought, but haven't used yet is Ivermectin horse paste -
@Kem was talking about it. She takes a pea sized amount if she feels something coming on, and she says it works. I bought it from Amazon Canada. Didn't even have to smuggle it over the border. The American Amazon has lots for sale, but I think it's far more accepted down there. Up here not so much.
If I think it's a bad virus, I don't care if it is Covid or not, but a bad bout of anything respiratory I plan to try out the Ivermectin horse paste in addition to the other stuff above.
As always, your mileage may vary, I'm not prescribing anything, nor am I giving medical advice, I'm just explaining what I do, and why. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
