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Powerful article and spot-on per my better half who suffers with LC.
People who are concerned about extended covid symptoms may benefit from reading broadly. For example, a study I encountered reported that a simple before (exposure), during and after natural protocol reduced long covid cases to 0%, if I recall this precisely. Those already with extended covid may not benefit in the same way from this particular study, but the concept of broad reading nonetheless may be beneficial.
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As a long-Covid sufferer myself, I would appreciate any links other CCers have to share.
Right near the beginning of the COVID pandemic, before there were any vaccines or testing available, after a trip to a touristy area with many people from many parts of the world, I developed something. It went on for a long time with a very nasty dry cough. Eventually I developed a shortness of breath that again persisted for quite a while. I think that this was probably COVID, and the shortness of breath was probably “long COVID”, although I never had the test results to confirm this. At least two doctors have said that there really was no point in testing to see whether I had antibodies (before I was vaccinated) because either way they would just do the same thing, which includes recommending vaccination.
The shortness of breath in my case went away very slowly. Some improvement seemed to occur the first two or three times that I was vaccinated. At one point I happened to say that I wondered whether this meant that there had still been live viruses hanging out in my lungs, and being vaccinated helped me to kill them off. However, I said this in the presence of a cellular biologist (bachelor’s only so far), a nurse practitioner, and someone who was part way through a DVM. The resulting discussion was rather difficult for me to comprehend, but I think that the consensus was “this is possible, but it is also possible that your immune system was overreacting after killing off the virus and the result of the vaccinations might have included a backing off of the overreaction”. Or at least that is what I thought that they said.
I think that I am lucky that what appears to be long COVID also appears to have gone away with time. It did take two years.
I’ve heard this explanation too, and wonder if covid didn’t mess up my immune system. I’ve had bad year round allergies for 30 years. Shots didn’t help. But the last 15ish, they’ve been well managed with a daily cocktail of meds. And when it’s more than they can handle, I can tell you what symptoms I’ll have what months of the year.
Or at least I could. In January I had covid. And this year, my allergies have gone haywire. The symptom patterns are all different and all of the meds just don’t work like they used to anymore. But I mentioned it to a doc and they said it was probably due to age (peri/menopause). Who knows. I guess it really doesn’t matter and it’s not life threatening or anything. Just highly annoying at times. But I do wonder.
I feel terrible for those who really suffer!
Who knows, indeed. My sudden-onset rheumatoid arthritis seemed unrelated to Covid, while all the wheezing/breathing issues I had were pretty clearly related. The writer’s burning-bones symptoms? That’s what a flare of RA feels like to me, exactly!
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