aerik found a naturopathic training college where they could get care.

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The naturopathic college offers free student clinics and also access to some free donated supplements, so I’ve been receiving care there for a number of years before COVID. I think that was a place where I felt like there was more familiarity and comfort with either the concept of low viral illness, so that was kind of the first place that I started to receive care and we started to use words like long COVID and try things. It was helpful to me that I already had a relationship with them. I’m also somebody who is very sensitive to medications. I am chemically and environmentally sensitive as well and so I was very – I’m very hesitant to use medications. I had very pronounced vaccine adverse reactions to the mRNA vaccines to the point where I’m not receiving those anymore based on that.

So the naturopath was also I think a good – a helpful place for me to receive care that was gentler and they were also very aware of my sensitivities and very aware of – we’d been building a relationship for years so that was really helpful in terms of trying things, both to address like residual viral load in my body and also what seems to be autoimmune kind of responses to COVID. I’m still working with them. I have a primary doctor as well and before COVID I had kind of an arrangement with my primary doctor where I see her for diagnosis and she sends me for tests and kind of monitors everything, but most of my care in terms of treatment comes from the naturopath because my system tends to tolerate herbs and supplements better, although I still have reactions to those.

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