"Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome": COVID "long-haulers" suffering symptoms months after initial diag…
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The fact that both of the so called "long-haulers" were very physically active previously scares me. These are people who were pretty much at peak physical health, yet COVID still managed to put them at the complete other end of the spectrum, just like that.
Dr. Fowkes sadly died of a heart attack. Since COVID causes blood thickening/clotting in the body which has led to mini-strokes, I wonder if her exposure to COVID was a contributing factor to her death?
My Wife and I had COVID in late March lasting to mid April, we are still experiencing fatigue and occasional pains through different areas of our bodies. I have days where I cannot concentrate on my work.
It fucking sucks.
Buddy of mine still doesn’t have his taste and smell 100% back after about 5-6 months.
Long term covid symptoms definitely appear to impact a number of people, and more research on this is needed.
We should keep in mind that the latest large study on covid symptoms showed the following:
The team found that older people, women and those with a greater number of different symptoms in the first week of their illness were more likely to develop long COVID.
Overall, the team found that while most people with COVID-19 reported being back to normal in 11 days or less, around one in seven (13.3%, 558 users) had COVID-19 symptoms lasting for at least 4 weeks, with around one in 20 (4.5%, 189 users) staying ill for 8 weeks and one in 50 (2.3%, 95 users) suffering for longer than 12 weeks.
Extrapolating out to the general UK population, which has a different age and gender makeup compared with the COVID Symptom Study app users, the team estimated that around one in seven (14.5%) of people with symptomatic COVID-19 would be ill for at least 4 weeks, one in 20 (5.1%) for 8 weeks and one in 45 (2.2%) for 12 weeks or more.
These sorts of numbers are still very large of course, 1 in 50 x a large population is a lot of people. But worth keeping some sort of perspective on this, although very much prepared to get downvoted to covid hell just as anyone on this website does who suggests that covid is anything other than the worst thing ever.
From a quick search it looked like about a third of covid patients still had some symptom 3 weeks after being tested.
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/risk-comms-updates/update-36-long-term-symptoms.pdf?sfvrsn=5d3789a6_2
Anyone got better info?
I had COVID in late March and have been dealing with severe migraines since. My neurologist had me keep a journal of my pain level each day and I averaged 4 non-migraine days a month since May. I have tried so many medications, many of which I had bad reactions to. Covid fog and lack of motivation to even get out of bed is real (as I type this in bed after waking up over four hours ago). My head hurts anyway, so I may just go back to sleep.
My sister had an immune system problem after an infection in her youth (although this wasn't actually identified by doctors until much later) after she had multiple instances of turning 'yellow' due to liver problems.
Basically her immune system would go into overdrive after any illness, to the point where it was actually doing cirrhosis damage (similar to an alcoholic) to her liver. Over time her liver just deteriorated, to the point where she had to go the hospital for regular tests of her 'levels'. After one such trip they noticed her levels were all messed up and asked her to come back to the hospital for observation which was lucky as basically her liver packed up shortly after. They had to put her into an induced coma on full life support for almost two months until a healthy liver was found for transplant. Luckily that operation was a success, but because of that she has been on immune suppressants ever since (which potentially makes her particularly liable to catching COVID which - with her pre-existing conditions - could be pretty damn serious).
I wouldn't be surprised if, as speculated in this piece, that COVID is triggering excessive immune responses in a small percentage of people. It's possible that this is something that has happened after every big pandemic in history, but only being picked up now due to generally better healthcare/diagnosis.
Even if only a fraction of a percent of COVID patients do have an auto-immune response like this, the consequences could potentially be huge in terms of impact on health providers moving forward, if COVID is allowed to run rampant prior to vaccines kicking in.