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Nurse wakes from 28-day Covid coma after medics give her VIAGRA: Asthmatic double-jabbed mother-of-two was just three days from having ventilator turned off
Daily Mail ^ | 2 January 2022 | Jonathan Rose

Posted on 01/02/2022 6:57:39 PM PST by Trillian

A nurse who spent 28 days in a Covid coma fighting for her life has been saved after medics gave her Viagra.

Mother-of-two Monica Almeida, 37, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was just three days away from having her ventilator turned off.

Mrs Almeida was given the erectile dysfunction drug by her colleagues at Lincoln County Hospital.

The ‘miracle’ drug caused her condition to improve in just a week and the level of oxygen she needed to drop by half as it opened up her airwaves.

'I had a little joke with the consultant after I came round because I knew him.

'He told me it was the Viagra, I laughed and thought he was joking, but he said 'no, really, you've had a large dose of Viagra.'

'It was my little Christmas miracle,' she told the Sun.

The specialist respiratory nurse, who works for NHS Lincolnshire and was born in Portugal, first tested positive for the virus in October.

Despite being double-jabbed, she lost her taste and smell and was coughing up blood on the fourth day.

After visiting hospital when her oxygen levels dropped, she was discharged - but soon after was rushed to Lincoln County Hospital as she was unable to breathe.

As her condition deteriorated she was taken to the ICU where she was placed in a medical coma on the 16 November.

The nurse was so ill that her parents were advised to fly over from Portugal to say their goodbyes.

But in the eleventh hour doctors decided to use the unusual treatment which had previously been suggested as a way to treat Covid patients as it dilates blood vessels and opens the airways.

She emerged from her coma in time for Christmas on the 14 December and was allowed to return to her family on Christmas

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; covidlatetreatments; covidtreatments; doublejabbed; hailmary; ventilator; viagra
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1 posted on 01/02/2022 6:57:39 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Trillian

Viagra?


2 posted on 01/02/2022 6:59:03 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I thought there was just the one thing Viagra could raise from the dead...who knew!?


3 posted on 01/02/2022 7:00:32 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: Trillian

4 posted on 01/02/2022 7:00:57 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Trillian

good thing she was double jabbed or she might’ve gotten really sick.


5 posted on 01/02/2022 7:01:17 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Trillian

Did they give it to her or her husband?


6 posted on 01/02/2022 7:02:19 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Trillian
I hope the doctor administered that with an actual syringe....
7 posted on 01/02/2022 7:03:39 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Fido969

If they gave it to her husband, she may get double jabbed again. ;-)


8 posted on 01/02/2022 7:04:17 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Off-label usage accounts for something like 40% of all medication.


9 posted on 01/02/2022 7:05:19 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Trillian

Waiting for the democrat/media/big pharma/Faux-xi cheerleaders on here to say the death serum is perfectly safe with 98% efficacy.


10 posted on 01/02/2022 7:05:30 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: EvilCapitalist
The husband will be happy to hear this.
11 posted on 01/02/2022 7:06:40 PM PST by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: Trillian
[D]octors decided to use the unusual treatment which had previously been suggested as a way to treat Covid patients as it dilates blood vessels and opens the airways.
Makes sense. The clot shot plays merry hell with capillaries, esp. in the lungs and other organs.
12 posted on 01/02/2022 7:07:32 PM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: EvilCapitalist

One of my former employees had a father who was a chemist who worked in development of Viagra. It was for hypertension. This is the story he told:

When they ran clinical trials on people with high blood pressure and the trials ended they asked for the remaining pills back. People kept on saying “no” “I lost the extra pills” “I don’t know where the pills are”. The researchers wondered what was going on.

Then one guy said his wife did not want him to stop the blood pressure medicine. It gave him a big “stiffie” and she did not want him to stop taking his pills.

So that is how the Viagra thing all started. If they could relieve hypertension in Covid-19 it only makes sense.


13 posted on 01/02/2022 7:08:53 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Erectile dysfunction was an off-label use of viagra (sildenafil). It was a cardio-vascular drug first.


14 posted on 01/02/2022 7:11:01 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: EvilCapitalist

Sidenafil when used in this capacity


15 posted on 01/02/2022 7:33:19 PM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Blurb2350

No the pathophysiology has nothing to due with your pejorative “clot shot”. Sidenafil is a ventilator and acts on the endothelial layer of the pulmonary vasculature causes decrease in diffusion space which in turn increases oxygen as in the case of ARDS.

Sidenafil has been long used in such a capacity, and the erectile dysfunction treatment is actually a by product of what it was originally intended for.


16 posted on 01/02/2022 7:35:54 PM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Trillian

She perked right up.


17 posted on 01/02/2022 7:39:12 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Trillian

You can get a Boner Pill, off label use, for the CCP WuHu Flu, as a try anything attempt.

But ya can’t get Horse Paste or RA meds that have been showing promise to provide some therapeutic effect.

What a world.


18 posted on 01/02/2022 7:42:58 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Trillian
Take two and call me in the morning. . .


19 posted on 01/02/2022 7:51:19 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Trillian

I can only say two things:

Duh.

and

Doctor might lose his license for violating protocol to save his patient.


20 posted on 01/02/2022 8:01:21 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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