This is an extraordinary article. It represents reality. The art of the practice of medicine. How complex and individual every case is. We don’t need more studies. We need compilations of massive databases of individual case histories fed into AI and machine learning,crunched and shared.
Thanks for this information! You have explained what has happened to me in 2026. I become ill following exposure to covid vaccine shedding, never been vaccinated and am still trying to heal my gut from the inflammation covid infection in January 2020 caused (organic acids test in 2021 showed similar inflammation to celiac disease) the upstream effect was low stomach acid and undigested protein entering my gut. I developed mast cell activation as a result. I was deficient in all the vitamin B's and minerals which led to metabolic acidosis. I had felt like I was dying and sought help from a functional doctor in the UK. I have done a lot of work on my terrain and environment since but long covid and the gut inflammation issues remain. Roll on to January 2026 I went down with pneumonia that quickly deteriorated into pulmonary edema after short term exposure to shedding. It took weeks to recover. Then articaine a dental anaesthetic in March which caused all the lymph nodes on my neck to go hard by the next morning and I couldn't raise my head with the pain and head ache. I took an antihistamine and laid flat for 24 hours realising it was an immune reaction and it passed. Articaine has a theophene ring similar to artemisinin so I had put that down to it killing oral spirochetes or re-activated Lyme disease given I had the european form of the latter in remission that affects the CNS. I had not however had that reaction to its use before. Then in mid April I spent hours with my elderly godmother not realising she'd had a covid booster. The pulmonary edema developed suddenly within 4 days all I got was a strep reactivation sore throat like something passing by for a few minutes the day after the visit. No precursor normal covid symptoms. I only survived using Dr Henry Ealy's early protocol after having tried vitamin D and C and considering covid as a cause. Anti-histamines didn't help. The EDTA dropped the phospholipase within 12 hours and from that point I started to recover. I researched what phospholipase is and realised it was my body creating arachiodonic acid to kill a "pathogen" in my vasculature. So my experience is anecdotal evidence of the papers. I didn't understand what was different about the fall 2025/spring 2026 vaccines or why I got so ill until now. I just went back to look at the variant in the vaccines here - its LP.8.1 a variant of the JN.1 family of Omicron subvariants that has increased binding capacity.
I wrote a long emotional response and lost it all but cannot figure out how to get it back! I will say this in short. This is my life now. It’s good to see that you really see us! Thank you! Sincerely, Dawn Loudenback
Mine resolved taking various forms of vitamin B1 post covid as did other symptoms of dysautonomia. There's an Elliott Overton on YouTube who has a lot of information about how to dose to recover from deficiency. His work is based on the clinical experience of Dr Derrick Lonsdale and Chandler Marrs. Not like medication it takes time and I'd start slow with the water soluble form first. It is involved in communication via the vagus nerve why deficiency can cause so many symptoms. My latest experience with shedding is linked to this article. For me the deficiency came from the change covid caused in my gut microbiome. Loss of most bifidobacteria (from research) and candida that became the aggressive fungal form (organic acids test) and candida has the same proteins on its surface as gluten. So celiac type damage from my immune system attacking it and malabsorption. The herb gymnema knocks candida back to the yeast form (and does the same to mould that has colonised) but can cause GERD so I take it with food. Killing candida isn't a good idea - you change your terrain as it will just bounce back. I'm headed into vitamin D supplementation and adding foods rich in it into my diet along with vitamin K2. We need it not just from sunshine. It returns bifidobacteria to normal levels and balances the gut microbiome and is also necessary for the integrity of the gut walls. All things we need to create and absorb vitamin B's from our gut.
Sometimes all it takes is one beautiful soul with the type of compassion , empathy and intuitive wisdom to reach deep into our hearts with a message that connects us all in a way we once had within our cherished close inner circles. For many of us the cherished bonds are not the same anymore - they’re faded , distanced and broken or hanging on by a thread.
My dear Scott, your words are healing 🥹 on multiple levels. Thank you for your kindness. You make this world a better place.
Hey Scott. I’ve been meaning to write to you since your Sub a couple issues ago on MCAS + anaphylactic reactions. I hate to give your big beautiful 🧠 another complexity to think about in that whole situation, but I feel strongly you should put the following in for consideration. I’m an LEC pt & this is about Dr. Afrin’s Table 12.
Of course acknowledging all the other factors most certainly at play, I would love to see you ask LEC pts w/severe MCAS to think strongly about the issue of Mold🦠 in their homes, maybe more than you currently do?
N of 1, but a pretty educated ONE—
Living in Mold 🦠Central, Eugene Oregon: Right before we found multiple instances of hidden mold in our house, as well as some obvious ones we failed to give importance to, I was having massive MCAS reactions to Kiwi, Persimmon, and an odd roundup of several other foods.
Then, TABLE 12:
Last year, back in Detroit visiting family & I saw my Integrative Cardiologist, I had a massive reaction to ICM, Iodinated Contrast Media, w/a ❤️ CT. I’ve had ICM (4) previous times and never a reaction. Twenty-Four hours after the test I broke out in a massive itchy rash everywhere that lasted 5 days.
I have not had Covid, nor any of the vaccines. What I discovered after I got home from the trip was a very NOT-Obvious case of 🦠 exposure. I was sleeping in my nephew‘s bed and he has a bed with a drawer. I had pretty bad sleep while sleeping in that room, but I only figured it out after I got back here & did laundry.
Every single piece of clothing I brought with me that I had stored in the bed drawer, even stuff I had not worn, smelled like incredible mold funk that was not obviously smelly in the moment. The reaction to ICM happened 24 hours post-test and is 1000% the moldy liner of the bed drawer, bc I never have severe MCAS since we fixed x 10 all the stuff in our house.
I know this is a big 💩 to drop in your lap, but I know you’re always learning & searching and I want to help.
I hear you, and think I see you. Mold is real, and so is mold toxicity.
In our patient population,it’s sometimes an issue patients bring up early in treatment…because a mold “specialist” treated them for it for more than a year and they didn’t get better. Then we deal with other issues and they typically get better.
Once we have lateral blood flow testing for spike levels, I would be very interested in your test results. I don’t believe that there’s anybody on the planet that hasn’t been exposed to Spike protein at this point. Kind of like water and air.
And I hear you back! Of course I’ve been exposed to 🦠Spike. I just mean I haven’t gotten CV (Ab test x 7 in the past 6 years, bc I needed to know for other medical reasons). That said, I too would love to get LF testing.
I’m not saying that I had mold toxicity, bc I think that is a bull💩dx made up by many functional MDs and NDs to terrify & $$ soak their pts for a lonnngggg time. I’m only sharing what was borne out by my own long mold experience. Two years before CV, when we first found mold in 2018, my mast cells started freaking out & are now still reactive when there’s enough mold. I mention to you not bc it will fit in many or most people—just if you’re stumped & are out of other ideas.
Yes, and it comes and goes over the past five years. I first really miss the smell of coffee, and was amazed at a chemical filtered taste that I got with my mint patties and mint ice cream, which totally turned me off. And I meet I could sometimes taste rancid type flavors. It’s interesting how some of the therapies such as higher doses of IV and/or some nicotine with increased smell and taste initially. So sorry what you had to put up with in the medical model, thank goodness I was in debilitated and no longer could do it. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m continuing to learn hopefully.
This is an extraordinary article. It represents reality. The art of the practice of medicine. How complex and individual every case is. We don’t need more studies. We need compilations of massive databases of individual case histories fed into AI and machine learning,crunched and shared.
Thank you for this.
Thanks for the clear assessment, Scott. You explained things in human terms and it's a deeply human tale you've shared.
Beautifully written. Learned science at the bedside…. Mix in a little empathy and you have Scott.
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Thanks for this information! You have explained what has happened to me in 2026. I become ill following exposure to covid vaccine shedding, never been vaccinated and am still trying to heal my gut from the inflammation covid infection in January 2020 caused (organic acids test in 2021 showed similar inflammation to celiac disease) the upstream effect was low stomach acid and undigested protein entering my gut. I developed mast cell activation as a result. I was deficient in all the vitamin B's and minerals which led to metabolic acidosis. I had felt like I was dying and sought help from a functional doctor in the UK. I have done a lot of work on my terrain and environment since but long covid and the gut inflammation issues remain. Roll on to January 2026 I went down with pneumonia that quickly deteriorated into pulmonary edema after short term exposure to shedding. It took weeks to recover. Then articaine a dental anaesthetic in March which caused all the lymph nodes on my neck to go hard by the next morning and I couldn't raise my head with the pain and head ache. I took an antihistamine and laid flat for 24 hours realising it was an immune reaction and it passed. Articaine has a theophene ring similar to artemisinin so I had put that down to it killing oral spirochetes or re-activated Lyme disease given I had the european form of the latter in remission that affects the CNS. I had not however had that reaction to its use before. Then in mid April I spent hours with my elderly godmother not realising she'd had a covid booster. The pulmonary edema developed suddenly within 4 days all I got was a strep reactivation sore throat like something passing by for a few minutes the day after the visit. No precursor normal covid symptoms. I only survived using Dr Henry Ealy's early protocol after having tried vitamin D and C and considering covid as a cause. Anti-histamines didn't help. The EDTA dropped the phospholipase within 12 hours and from that point I started to recover. I researched what phospholipase is and realised it was my body creating arachiodonic acid to kill a "pathogen" in my vasculature. So my experience is anecdotal evidence of the papers. I didn't understand what was different about the fall 2025/spring 2026 vaccines or why I got so ill until now. I just went back to look at the variant in the vaccines here - its LP.8.1 a variant of the JN.1 family of Omicron subvariants that has increased binding capacity.
Thank you for what you shared Heather, which may also help others in a similar situation. Peace.
I wrote a long emotional response and lost it all but cannot figure out how to get it back! I will say this in short. This is my life now. It’s good to see that you really see us! Thank you! Sincerely, Dawn Loudenback
Mine resolved taking various forms of vitamin B1 post covid as did other symptoms of dysautonomia. There's an Elliott Overton on YouTube who has a lot of information about how to dose to recover from deficiency. His work is based on the clinical experience of Dr Derrick Lonsdale and Chandler Marrs. Not like medication it takes time and I'd start slow with the water soluble form first. It is involved in communication via the vagus nerve why deficiency can cause so many symptoms. My latest experience with shedding is linked to this article. For me the deficiency came from the change covid caused in my gut microbiome. Loss of most bifidobacteria (from research) and candida that became the aggressive fungal form (organic acids test) and candida has the same proteins on its surface as gluten. So celiac type damage from my immune system attacking it and malabsorption. The herb gymnema knocks candida back to the yeast form (and does the same to mould that has colonised) but can cause GERD so I take it with food. Killing candida isn't a good idea - you change your terrain as it will just bounce back. I'm headed into vitamin D supplementation and adding foods rich in it into my diet along with vitamin K2. We need it not just from sunshine. It returns bifidobacteria to normal levels and balances the gut microbiome and is also necessary for the integrity of the gut walls. All things we need to create and absorb vitamin B's from our gut.
As always, thank you.
Have you encountered chronic vertigo as a major symptom of post-Covid infection or jab? And any ideas how to treat it?
Yes. That’s very tricky to parse. Maybe an article?
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Sometimes all it takes is one beautiful soul with the type of compassion , empathy and intuitive wisdom to reach deep into our hearts with a message that connects us all in a way we once had within our cherished close inner circles. For many of us the cherished bonds are not the same anymore - they’re faded , distanced and broken or hanging on by a thread.
My dear Scott, your words are healing 🥹 on multiple levels. Thank you for your kindness. You make this world a better place.
Hey Scott. I’ve been meaning to write to you since your Sub a couple issues ago on MCAS + anaphylactic reactions. I hate to give your big beautiful 🧠 another complexity to think about in that whole situation, but I feel strongly you should put the following in for consideration. I’m an LEC pt & this is about Dr. Afrin’s Table 12.
Of course acknowledging all the other factors most certainly at play, I would love to see you ask LEC pts w/severe MCAS to think strongly about the issue of Mold🦠 in their homes, maybe more than you currently do?
N of 1, but a pretty educated ONE—
Living in Mold 🦠Central, Eugene Oregon: Right before we found multiple instances of hidden mold in our house, as well as some obvious ones we failed to give importance to, I was having massive MCAS reactions to Kiwi, Persimmon, and an odd roundup of several other foods.
Then, TABLE 12:
Last year, back in Detroit visiting family & I saw my Integrative Cardiologist, I had a massive reaction to ICM, Iodinated Contrast Media, w/a ❤️ CT. I’ve had ICM (4) previous times and never a reaction. Twenty-Four hours after the test I broke out in a massive itchy rash everywhere that lasted 5 days.
I have not had Covid, nor any of the vaccines. What I discovered after I got home from the trip was a very NOT-Obvious case of 🦠 exposure. I was sleeping in my nephew‘s bed and he has a bed with a drawer. I had pretty bad sleep while sleeping in that room, but I only figured it out after I got back here & did laundry.
Every single piece of clothing I brought with me that I had stored in the bed drawer, even stuff I had not worn, smelled like incredible mold funk that was not obviously smelly in the moment. The reaction to ICM happened 24 hours post-test and is 1000% the moldy liner of the bed drawer, bc I never have severe MCAS since we fixed x 10 all the stuff in our house.
I know this is a big 💩 to drop in your lap, but I know you’re always learning & searching and I want to help.
Best, Kira.
I hear you, and think I see you. Mold is real, and so is mold toxicity.
In our patient population,it’s sometimes an issue patients bring up early in treatment…because a mold “specialist” treated them for it for more than a year and they didn’t get better. Then we deal with other issues and they typically get better.
Once we have lateral blood flow testing for spike levels, I would be very interested in your test results. I don’t believe that there’s anybody on the planet that hasn’t been exposed to Spike protein at this point. Kind of like water and air.
And I hear you back! Of course I’ve been exposed to 🦠Spike. I just mean I haven’t gotten CV (Ab test x 7 in the past 6 years, bc I needed to know for other medical reasons). That said, I too would love to get LF testing.
I’m not saying that I had mold toxicity, bc I think that is a bull💩dx made up by many functional MDs and NDs to terrify & $$ soak their pts for a lonnngggg time. I’m only sharing what was borne out by my own long mold experience. Two years before CV, when we first found mold in 2018, my mast cells started freaking out & are now still reactive when there’s enough mold. I mention to you not bc it will fit in many or most people—just if you’re stumped & are out of other ideas.
Yes, and it comes and goes over the past five years. I first really miss the smell of coffee, and was amazed at a chemical filtered taste that I got with my mint patties and mint ice cream, which totally turned me off. And I meet I could sometimes taste rancid type flavors. It’s interesting how some of the therapies such as higher doses of IV and/or some nicotine with increased smell and taste initially. So sorry what you had to put up with in the medical model, thank goodness I was in debilitated and no longer could do it. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m continuing to learn hopefully.
Somewhere in this article and me is hope. I'll hang on to both. Thank you, Scott.
Thank you, Scott.