@novid

I wrote a long email afterwards, explaining how fucked up this is, how, though I shouldn’t be expected to defend my reasoning for not wanting to get #COVID, I take antiseizure medication that has the potential to cause #lymphopenia, which is part of the reason I needed to go get blood drawn.

My fit tested N95 respirator should NEVER have been removed without my consent. Especially given the fact that I had already declined to take it off for a temp check earlier in the appt!

"In clinical studies, lymphocyte count has been described to recover to 80% of baseline value by 3 months; however, less is known about the duration of lymphopenia in real-life clinical practice.

"However, fingolimod-induced lymphopenia persists in 22% of patients for at least up to 1 year after fingolimod stop."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641093/

#Immunology
#RepairingCovidDamage
#Covid19
#lymphopenia
#lymphocytes
#epidemiology
#virology

Weary. Verge of tears.

Lymphocyte recovery after fingolimod discontinuation in patients with MS

To investigate the dynamics of immune cells recovery after treatment discontinuation of fingolimod in real-life clinical practice, we analyzed the course of lymphocyte reconstitution and its potential influencing factors in patients with multiple sclerosis ...

PubMed Central (PMC)