Wow! What a find. I have often wondered if I was a “secret study” participant in May 2019. I nearly died from a sudden ARDS event and it had all the signs of being covid. I never had any lung problems before that. Are vets still being used as guinea pigs...
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Your situation is exactly like mine. I spent over thirty years in the Marine Corps and never had any lung issues until the winter of 2019 when I got knocked for a loop with what I think was COVID. Now, I can do pretty much what I want to do at 78 on my farm, but I certainly don’t have the lung capacity I once had. The hit on me just seemed to come out of left field like a nasty winter flu with a cough but it was extremely hard to get over. I’m certain my alveoli got scarred and messed up.
Same here, reduced lung capacity, but I’m still here. What was telling is I never had a cold or flu since 2008. If it hadn’t been for the mullein leaf tea I drank I probably would have died. I couldn’t cough the stuff out of me to save me. It was a thick phlegm. The tea brought it right out. My nurse practitioner also gave me some Doxycycline Hyclate. It is a wonder I lived through that. I know what drowning feels like now and not a bit of fluid in my lungs.
My VA doctor told me I had interstitial lung disease and sent me home with nothing. Yes, how strange is that. I still think I was given something that caused it.