r/Longcovidgutdysbiosis

I think it’s time I finally revealed what happened to me.

Years ago, I had yet to have gotten the virus at all. Never had caught it. But the summer of 2021 I got the J&J vaccine (and we all know these vaccines indeed, induce the body to create spike protein, and there has been literature linking the spike protein to the degeneration of the the exracellular matrix, whether from vaccines or from actual infections)

Well. I had gotten the vaccine.

Minths later I started noticing both facial skin/fat tissue, and torso skin changes. Not only that, but my joints would undergo multiple subluxations over and over and over. I remember being in my couch and mov a few inches and my knee DISLOCATED. Extrenely painful. If that was happening to my joints, then it helped explain what was happening to my other cinnective Tissue. In this case my facial and torso skin.

Within months I had noticed that my back had started sagging around the love handle area, and I had an extremely strict consistent diet and no weight loss. No change to my workouts, no change to water retention. I was an athlete and tracked everything that went in and out of my body, especially for weighing due to competitions

I get full blood panels for myself twice a year, and and have done so for years. My doctors and I tried to figure out if anything had changed. It had not….

Even skin around my chest started sagging and becoming extra stretchy

As as far as my face, I remember shaving, and during shaving was stretching the skin, as I always do, while shaving to get a closer shave. As I did this I felt one of the most painful things I’ve ever felt, deep in the face and it felt like something literally tore off my face. It was, according to the doctor I had gone to when I went to the ER, likely the trigeminal nerve that I damaged from putting “too much pressure”, while shaving. Absolutely bullshit. Makes no sense. I always shaved that way. Then minimal stretching of the skin induced so much force and movement that I damaged a nerve??!!!

I watched certain parts of my own face change rapidly, seemingly little by little each time I put any moderate force into stretching my skin

By the end of a few months, my lower face was far more bottom heavy. And my cheek bones became more visible, and I have tons of photo proof of this for all the physicians I went to after noticing this. To the point they were like, “At first I thought it may be something else but it’s clear you’re experiencing facial changes”.

I went to a facial reconstructive surgeon as they know the anatomy of the face, the nerves, the skin and fat tissue, etc, and he said it look like a sudden rapid onset of the things generally seen with aging, which is, descending of the fat tissue (making the bottom of the face heavier, and the cheek bones more prominent as the fat that used to be higher up, was now descended no longer covering the bone adequately. He said he has no idea how mine progressed so quickly. He said the changes I saw in just eight months were absolutely not normal

In addition after the vaccine I had developed a milk allergy. I had drank milk every day my entire last ten years. And after the vaccine, suddenly would get extremely itchy and get an upset stomach

I guess I’m sharing this because, I’m assuming nothing will ever fix this…

but I just….. I just wanted to share what happened to me….

It’s extremely strange to rapidly not recognize your own face in the mirror. The physicians I have seen have acknowledged that something is going on based on my photo evidence…. and these photos were taken years ago before AI editing. I had nothing to fake. I was scared and wanted evidence for any doctor I saw….

I wanted to also know what was going on with the constant joint sublixing that has been going on and hasn’t stopped… I’ve had to give up competing in sports, because running too hard now, for my body, is simply running at all….

If I run at a decent paces I almost always get a slight dislocation or sublixation in my knees….

never EVER happened before the vaccine years ago…That began happening a few days after the vaccine. It was fucking terrifying and still is

So I’ve largely lost a big part of my identity. Don’t recognize myself I the mirror anymore

Dont recognize myself from the neck down athletically either

Seems this spike protein clearly did something horrible to my body and it will never reverse

Huge shame

Sometimes I wonder did this vaccine induce a dormant Lyme disease I may have had? Which I know can destroy connective tissue?

or did the spike protein itself single handedly destroy my connective tissue?

Whoe knows… but I am always especially scared of this getting even worse and making it impossible to walk…..

And just for the record, I had noticed my eyes seemed way deeper in their sockets than before. It was shocking. Went to my ophthalmologist who I have seen for years and THEY REMARKED On it. Without me having said anything. They sent me for a CT scan and found my eyes had literally shifted backwards into their sockets, (a condition known as enopthalmos)

Im completely defeated and just wanted to vent

perhaps it is ultimately related to spike protein/covid gut dysbiosis…..

I just wanted to share

Every day is a struggle to try to remain happy but I’ve been utterly physically destroyed by this whole ordeal.

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u/TraditionEmotional82 — 5 days ago
▲ 10 r/Longcovidgutdysbiosis+1 crossposts

Has anyone else developed only gastrointestinal issues during the first two years, but seen the symptoms worsen over time?

I caught covid in August 2024. Initially, it was just bloating and recurring diarrhea, symptoms I still have today, despite having undergone every test imaginable. However, in recent weeks, I’ve noticed increased food sensitivities, difficulty digesting food, and a sense of brain fog.

I’ve found that H1 antihistamines really help alleviate the symptoms, and I have an appointment scheduled with an MCAS specialist in a few months.

I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this kind of disease progression.

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u/TastyBroccolis — 5 days ago
▲ 7 r/Longcovidgutdysbiosis+1 crossposts

Lactoferrine posible made it worse

Hi guys .

I have sulfure dysbiosis with bilophila and desulfuromonas and I started to take lactoferrine 500mg once a day , it’s been 10 days now since I am taking it and begin suddenly to have diarrhea that smells like rotten eggs and itchy red bumps on all my belly . Is it a Die off don’t know what to do

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u/Efficient-Pride4007 — 6 days ago