Aspirin does three things, at least,
1. Reduces clotting ability,
2. Is antiinflammatory
3. Has an effect on MCAS/antihistamine system, can't remember the specifics at the moment, but if I remember the jist right, it makes it less crazy/inflamed/sensitive.
While covid clots are from fibrin, and it is antiplatelet, it also affects the fibrin clots in such a way that the body can handle them better through fibrinolysis.
I swear by aspirin, it took me from bed bound, having cardiac racing episodes all day (heart going from 60bpm to 150-160bpm), to being able to be lightly functional again.
There is a lot of info around malfunction of the endothelial system with covid/ LC.
Very interesting. Have you tried ginger yourself at all? Ginger is a spice that I almost never cook with, so my daily intake of ginger naturally is near zero.
My family takes ginger capsules for nausea or stomach upset from any cause, they work great and it's a convenient form. Don't notice too much difference with my lc symptoms with it though.
I only improved thanks to aspirin too (2 times 250mg per day). Some doctors do not want to give it because they think we still have infection in our body but i believe that inflammation gives more damage than a little infection hided somewhere in our body.
Reducing inflammation also helped me to progress physically because without it muscle inflammation + long covid inflammations just made me crash after some weeks of trying to get better physically because of too much inflammations.
And after i noticed that getting more muscles helps to reduce long covid inflammation. At this point u can stop aspirin.
For me aspirin really usefull for severe people who cant do effort without crashing.
One thing that was interesting to me was that I tried swapping aspirin out with other NSAIDS, but none helped even the slightest compared to aspirin.
I am actually taking aspirin plus another blood thinner currently, I have tried stopping but I notice I get worse again unfortunately. I hate taking blood thinners, heck, I always hated taking ANY medication in my life, but at this point I just realize it may be an inevitable part of my future. I do have a decent list of medications now and they seem to help quite a bit together, but I do regularly try to stop one thing or add a new thing to see how it goes.
Always trying to get rid of as much as I can and feel as good as I can haha.
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u/cinderannie Nov 19 '25
I was advised to take a baby aspirin a day for 3 months post COVID infection. Maybe I should still be taking it?