mleku on Nostr: i got hit by it february 2, and was down for 3 days, and had to do breathing ...

i got hit by it february 2, and was down for 3 days, and had to do breathing exercises and meditate to handle it... one of the worst things to do is increase oxygen levels when it's active, my breathing became very shallow and slow because i was coughing ridiculously when i breathed deeper, and within minutes my intercostal muscles started to ache, which indicates something far more complex was going on (this would usually mean some kind of mess with the nerves and electrolytes)

i literally have barely had more than a week or two of a mild strep throat since 2020

my personal opinion is with these things, you are better to roll with the punches, to dive into the cold water all at once instead of punishing yourself with dipping your toes in and hesitating, but then again it came down on me like a ton of bricks after i let myself get a chill after having a horrible quite cold shower as it was

point i'm making is that i think that i developed a very robust immunity to the virus out of my infection and its broad spectrum effects, likely due to much crossing of RNA coding between many animal and variant forms of flu virus, has seen me basically immune to the flu ever since

and i would also say, compared to my celiac induced chronic anaphylaxis, caused by gluten allergy, mainly, was way more painful and hard to live through, and it only just dawned on me a month or two ago that i even have celiac, and whenever i start to get those symptoms again, i'm like "oh yeah, this stuff has gluten in it, that stuff has gluten in it" and i stop eating those (for a while) and my health bounces back.

a lot of what covid does was specifically attacking the immune system. it felt a lot like an intense, very specific allergic reaction.