Long-covid is a term for a huge collection of symptoms people have experienced post-covid infection
Including but not limited to: Loss of taste or smell, incorrect taste or smell, brain fog, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, headaches, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and a whole collection of GI issues
I'm really sorry for your sister. It might slowly get better in years to come, but it's hard to say.
My sister had post mononucleosis syndrome (long mono). She had what your sister had, but maybe only 10% as bad as your sister. The frustrating thing is that women are so much more likely to get long post viral conditions, which makes it much more likely to ignore.
She's better than she was a year ago when she was diagnosed, but we're unsure how much of that is learning to manage it vs actual recovery. Only time will really tell.
"Our findings provided evidence supporting a positive relationship between mononucleosis and AD, indicating a causal link between EBV infection and AD."
fuck, I developed weird GI issues in 2020. No other symptoms though.
I never had a symptomatic infection, so idk if it's because of COVID (an asymptomatic infection causing chronic symptoms?) or random aging related shit.
It's hard to say. My feeling is that asymptomatic infections are less likely to lead to long COVID, but is possible. It is worth considering other issues. Have you tried randomly cutting out various foods to see if that affects it? Like give up milk products, nuts, or gluten for a few days and see what comes up.
it's still very possible to get long covid from an asymptomatic infection. any infection is going to be doing damage to anything in the body that uses blood whether you get acute symptoms or not
The range is massive. It can be difficulty in breathing, heart palpitations, lack of energy, problems with digestion, poor memory or lack of concentration, immune dis-regulation, and much more. It's quite hard to "test" for long COVID. They've managed to find certain antibodies in some long COVID patients, but it's still so new that it's not something that you're gonna get at a hospital unless you're incredibly posh. They best was to tell that you have long COVID is test and find out that you have COVID, and then when things don't get better after months, assume you have long COVID. Sorry things are wishy washy at this point, but the science is so damn new on this topic.
Can someone tell they have this? Are there symptoms?
Long-covid is a term for a huge collection of symptoms people have experienced post-covid infection
Including but not limited to: Loss of taste or smell, incorrect taste or smell, brain fog, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, headaches, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and a whole collection of GI issues
Chronic fatigue is another big one - my sister can't go out and do things more than two days in a row without being bedbound for the next two.
I'm really sorry for your sister. It might slowly get better in years to come, but it's hard to say.
My sister had post mononucleosis syndrome (long mono). She had what your sister had, but maybe only 10% as bad as your sister. The frustrating thing is that women are so much more likely to get long post viral conditions, which makes it much more likely to ignore.
She's better than she was a year ago when she was diagnosed, but we're unsure how much of that is learning to manage it vs actual recovery. Only time will really tell.
"Our findings provided evidence supporting a positive relationship between mononucleosis and AD, indicating a causal link between EBV infection and AD."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34560893/
fuck, I developed weird GI issues in 2020. No other symptoms though.
I never had a symptomatic infection, so idk if it's because of COVID (an asymptomatic infection causing chronic symptoms?) or random aging related shit.
That's the fun question we get to ask for the rest of our lives.
It's hard to say. My feeling is that asymptomatic infections are less likely to lead to long COVID, but is possible. It is worth considering other issues. Have you tried randomly cutting out various foods to see if that affects it? Like give up milk products, nuts, or gluten for a few days and see what comes up.
it's still very possible to get long covid from an asymptomatic infection. any infection is going to be doing damage to anything in the body that uses blood whether you get acute symptoms or not
You are right. With gi stuff, it is very worth checking for food intolerance too, tho.
The range is massive. It can be difficulty in breathing, heart palpitations, lack of energy, problems with digestion, poor memory or lack of concentration, immune dis-regulation, and much more. It's quite hard to "test" for long COVID. They've managed to find certain antibodies in some long COVID patients, but it's still so new that it's not something that you're gonna get at a hospital unless you're incredibly posh. They best was to tell that you have long COVID is test and find out that you have COVID, and then when things don't get better after months, assume you have long COVID. Sorry things are wishy washy at this point, but the science is so damn new on this topic.
My grandma was on oxygen when she got Covid and her endurance went off a cliff and never came back, an already limited lung capacity dropped by 50%.