In a bewildering incident, a 37-year-old nurse woke up after a 28-day long COVID induced coma after receiving a large dose of viagra in the UK.

Monica Almeida, 37, was just 72 hours from her ventilator being turned off when medics had the idea to use the erectile dysfunction drug, The Sun reported. 

Her condition improved after a week and she made it home for Christmas. Looking back, Almedia, a mother of two, has commended the spontaneous thinking of the doctors for using the drug that seemed to have opened her airwaves. 

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Monica, a specialist respiratory nurse, used to treat COVID patients while working for NHS Lincolnshite. She tested positive for the infection in October. 

Calling her recovery a ‘Christmas miracle’, she said, “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.”

Monica, who was doubly vaccinated for COVID-19, had lost her sense of taste and smell and was coughing up blood by the fourth day of her diagnosis. She was sent back from the hospital without a prescription or treatment when her oxygen levels dropped. 

But when she had trouble breathing after, she was rushed to Lincoln County Hospital and taken to the resuscitation room. Her condition kept deteriorating, following which, she was admitted to the ICU. 

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She was placed in a coma on November 16. “I could have been gone at just 37 years old, but I suppose I was a bit of a monkey and kept on fighting,” she said, according to a report in The Sun. 

Speaking of viagra, she said, “Within 48 hours it opened up my airwaves and my lungs started to respond. If you think how the drug works, it expands your blood vessels. I have asthma and my air sacks needed a little help.”

Studies are still ongoing regarding the possible use of viagra as a way to treat COVID-19 patients.