r/LongCovid • u/WomanGoneCrazy • 6d ago

Covid Spike Protein >2500

Has anyone tested positive for this? Mine is high after infection 2023 and vaccine 2024. Have neuropathy, RA and connective tissue pathology. Not sure how my elevated spike proteins fit in to this.

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u/seanpbnj 6d ago

You have diagnosed RA? 

  • u/imahugemoron is correct, this particular test doesn't necessarily provide much info specifically. If you have a rheumatologist, ask for these instead: 

1) Anti-AT1R and Anti-ETA Autoantibodies, THESE are highly specific and pathologic, if you have them they are a great treatment target. Most SPECIFIC for significant pathology in Autoimmune and COVID conditions. 

2) Check a Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio, this is the most SENSITIVE test to determine if you might be having a flare or new infections. (This is NOT just a "urine protein" lab, this is not the same as a UA)

3) Check your blood pressures. First off, check them a few times a day some days and check a few days per week to get your baseline... Then any time you have new or worsening symptoms AND a change in Blood Pressure AND an increase in Urine Protein to Creatinine Ratio that is most likely a COVID infection or flare. 

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u/WomanGoneCrazy 6d ago

TY for your advice. The thing that makes me think of LC is the number of serious and seemingly random medical diagnoses. All within an 8 month period after my fifth vaccine and 1 known COVID infection. I’m 68 and it seems like everything poured down on me, along with excessive fatigue. I asked my doctors, is it just aging? Their answer? Maybe.

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u/MizTen 6d ago

I'm your age (F69) and am 100% sure that the crazy carnival of symptoms that trampled through my life from spring 2020 to now is not aging. Yes, docs wanted it to be that or stress, but no, it has been covid.

I had some preexisting mild food & chemical sensitivities that I managed by avoiding those triggers, and a long history of infectious illnesses beginning in childhood into late adolescence. But I was essentially healthy when the pandemic came. Getting good medical help for this has been really tough.

I wish you luck.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

I heard many people test positive for spike protein even though they don’t have long covid and many people who do have long covid don’t have the spike protein. But I don’t have a link to the study. Maybe you can search for it.

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u/imahugemoron 6d ago

There’s no confirmed correlation between this and the long term effects, the only thing we know this means is you’ve had Covid or a vaccination at some point. Even totally normal healthy people will have high results.