Some thoughts on my “life-saving” treatment by Dr. Jäger.
Since mid-June 2021, I have been suffering from what is now fairly certain to be Post Vac (due to vaccination with Biontech and previously with AstraZeneca).
Until my first appointment with Dr. Jäger in June 2023, I had been through a devastating odyssey of doctors. Only my pain therapist took my complaints seriously. When I first sat across from Dr. Jäger and heard that I was being taken seriously, that my complaints weren’t being classified as psychosomatic, and that I really was as sick as I felt, a huge burden fell from my shoulders.
After undergoing the blood test she recommended, which revealed, among other things, thrombosis in my blood and inflammation of my blood vessels, I immediately began the therapy she recommended. In the first 10 weeks, I injected myself with heparin three times daily and took clopidogrel and ASS (which I can’t tolerate due to my “escalated” histamine intolerance). Even with the heparin, the brain fog became significantly less, I could think a bit more clearly again, and I observed that I had been seeing my surroundings through a gray veil for the past two years.
Subsequently, I began taking the following medications: Clopidogrel, Pradaxa (against microclots), Ivabradine (because I was struggling with severe heart rhythm disturbances), Famotidine, Rupatadine (against intolerances and for stomach protection), LDN for sleeping and against nerve inflammation, as well as melatonin spray, also to counteract nerve inflammation. To keep the pain symptoms under control, I take cannabis drops three times a day.
I also began with the first of a total of six apheresis treatments. The medication improved my breathing, the constant allergic reactions calmed down, and overall the nerve pain became much better. After the first apheresis, on the way home, I had the feeling for the first time in a long time of not being quite so weak and “sticky” (this “stickiness” sounds strange, but it’s exactly the description of how my body feels on some days even today). During the apheresis, it became clear how thickened my blood was even with the blood-thinning medications. The apheresis treatments were very strenuous for me, partly due to my previous tumor condition, but I felt an improvement from time to time, until I had contact with the coronavirus again. At this point, it became clear that each reinfection would trigger a new flare-up in me. During the sixth apheresis, it became clear what this virus triggers in me. As my vessels were very exhausted and much more inflamed again, I paused after the sixth apheresis, although I had previously felt an improvement after each apheresis. Unfortunately, I am also limited in terms of financial resources.
I continue the medication treatment recommended by Dr. Jäger, at my own expense, although in the meantime at least the blood-thinning medications can be prescribed off-label. But I have to pay for the rest myself, which only works through the help of friends and acquaintances.
I have experienced people in the clinic who have experienced a significant improvement in their condition through the apheresis treatments, and I also had the feeling of significant relief.
Despite my illness, I tried to continue working as a school and individual companion (focusing on autism) until October ’23, because I kept hoping to recover. But since every exertion leads to a breakdown, weakening me anew and more sustainably each time, I have “thrown in the towel” and since then have focused exclusively on trying everything possible to get healthy.