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Related: About this forumI got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage
By Richard Quest, Business editor-at-large, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html
"The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back."
"Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19.
I got infected back in mid-April.
I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. If I reach for a glass, or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture. It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn't working.
At times there's a sense of mild confusion. The micro delay in a thought, the hesitation with a word. Nobody would notice but me.
My digestive system is peculiar, to say the least.
It doesn't matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage -- my body doesn't feel quite right.
The cough has been with me for days, I have been tired and needed to take naps. I tripped over the camera tripod then fell over a chair! I am concerned but not panicked, yet."
CaliforniaPeggy
(151,829 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,157 posts)safeinOhio
(33,925 posts)Ive have most of those symptoms and they have developed after 60. Slowly over time.
BigmanPigman
(52,157 posts)safeinOhio
(33,925 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,157 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)and are saying they did about 10-15 years earlier than would otherwise be expected, based on their current health. Which is another way of saying that most of the people who died were not young.
KT2000
(20,779 posts)there will be a lot of people experiencing post-virus issues. They will be put in the same category, medically speaking, as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, etc. I asked if Covid group group will be marginalized like the other conditions, and he said that remains to be seen. I have a hard time believing the "it's all in your head, psychological" explanation will fly much longer.
BigmanPigman
(52,157 posts)but is it permanent? No one knows at this point...
safeinOhio
(33,925 posts)Looks more like Medicaid for all.
KT2000
(20,779 posts)"Everything is going to shit isn't it." He nodded slightly.
Duppers
(28,232 posts)My CFS began decades ago after my "recovery" from an unknown viral infection.
The internal med specialist I saw at the time said I seemed to have contracted a malaria type of illness - this was in the 70s.
He was the one doc at that time who refused to go to the "it's all in your head" excuse. I was grateful. Since then, I've found a few docs who accept the facts of my illness and thankfully, although untreatable, my symptoms have lessened over the decades.
KT2000
(20,779 posts)what he was saying. If this does come to pass I sure hope that marginalization by the medical mainstream ends.
niyad
(119,375 posts)underpants
(186,340 posts)Good article
BigmanPigman
(52,157 posts)Don't know if permanent (that's scary).