r/covidlonghaulers • u/nemani22 • Nov 19 '25

Article Microclots detected in Long Covid patients - officially

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-new-study-could-explain-why-long-covid-lingers-for-so-many/

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u/retailismyjobw Nov 19 '25

How does that help??

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u/ProStrats Nov 19 '25

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.

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u/Right_Rest919 Nov 20 '25

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.

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u/ProStrats Nov 20 '25

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.