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Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by 411111111111111 »

let me preface this by mentioning that i havent been tested for covid-19.

two weeks ago i've been having real issues breathing. it felt like my upper body was borderline paralyzed and i had to really force myself to fully breathe in. this wasn't constant but happened every day for several hours each. especially at night.

i got worried that i might have the virus so i checked my temperature and oxygen blood saturation as well as my pulse.

temperature was fine (36.6°C-37.2°C), blood saturation was in the normal range, however it dropped from 97-100 when i wasnt having any issues to 94-97. my pulse rate however went from usually ~75-80 to >110 whenever i had breathing problems.

it went away last week.. or so i though. i had another episode of that this morning, it was only for 3 hours today, however. it seems to be going away, but if it actually was (or is) the virus... it seems plausible to me.

but i'm a person without any medical knowledge so ... listen to the people actually treating the patients, not random armchair specialists like they're frequent on hacker news -- especially in threads about covid-19.

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by catalogia »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #20
Bombthecat wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Won't happen. We can't go in lockdown for 2 or three years..

Probably not for even another month. Because it will stop working, for practical reasons. People will have to go back to work, or be evicted. Go out for necessities, shopping around to find any, increasing their exposure instead of decreasing it. Go job interviewing. All sorts of fallout, which actually increases travel and potential infection, instead of reducing it. Its easy for us middle-class folks to say "Just s…

The people calling the shots are all firmly on one side of this class divide. Will there be the political willpower to break quarantine when virtually all of our politicians from city councils all the way up to national leaders are financially secure and, more often than not, old enough to be particularly at risk?

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by cowpig »

There's so much blind speculation in this comment section. The kind that's intriguing and fun when it's about engineering/math/whatever, but dangerous when it's about the health effects of an ongoing pandemic.

I hope moderators do something about it.

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by jpxw »

cowpig wrote: post #33

There's so much blind speculation in this comment section. The kind that's intriguing and fun when it's about engineering/math/whatever, but dangerous when it's about the health effects of an ongoing pandemic. I hope moderators do something about it.

Can you explain how exactly it is “dangerous”?

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by trentnix »

cowpig wrote: post #33

There's so much blind speculation in this comment section. The kind that's intriguing and fun when it's about engineering/math/whatever, but dangerous when it's about the health effects of an ongoing pandemic. I hope moderators do something about it.

If you think there's a lot of blind (and wild!) speculation happening here, you should see what's happening in hospitals by physicians and infectious disease experts!

We're just seeing how the sausage is made in a medical crisis. And it is never pretty.

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by covidchat25 »

411111111111111 wrote: post #31

let me preface this by mentioning that i havent been tested for covid-19. two weeks ago i've been having real issues breathing. it felt like my upper body was borderline paralyzed and i had to really force myself to fully breathe in. this wasn't constant but happened every day for several hours each. especially at night. i got worried that i might have the virus so i checked my temperature and oxygen blood saturation…

I've had the exact same symptoms as you: * Chest pain and breathing difficulties that gets worse at night. * Actually ended up on hospital twice because of it. * Pulse and blood pressure went high too.

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

war1025 wrote: post #27
ludamad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the most heart wrenching thing - total local victory is only buying time

That's all any of this has ever been about, whether or not people want to admit it to themselves. We are trying to hold the fort until reinforcements (better treatments, vaccines, etc) arrive.

> We are trying to hold the fort until reinforcements (better treatments, vaccines, etc)

We may also be developing herd immunity, if the previously-infected are less likely to be reinfected. If that’s the case, those presenting antibodies could go back to a normal existence faster.

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by freehunter »

jpxw wrote: post #35
cowpig wrote: post #33

There's so much blind speculation in this comment section. The kind that's intriguing and fun when it's about engineering/math/whatever, but dangerous when it's about the health effects of an ongoing pandemic. I hope moderators do something about it.

Can you explain how exactly it is “dangerous”?

Speculation on treatments for Covid-19 has already killed people: https://ktla.com/news/arizona-man-dies-after-taking-form-of-...

Re: Mysterious heart damage, not just lung troubles, befalling Covid-19 patients

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Post by giardini »

fock wrote: post #15
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #4

is this 1 in 5 in people who are otherwise asymptomatic as well? I guess not, or we would be seeing a lot more dead but I wonder if there are any heart attacks occurring in otherwise asymptomatic people and not being marked down as Covid-19 related.

we are seeing a lot more dead in heavily affected regions. and there is no statistics about why they died... Personally I think this is quite worrying with a lot of people now thinking we put masks on and then can go back to work. If this is indeed having serious side effects, we need to eradicate this. Meaning total lockdown except absolute necessities (e.g. ask: will people die of physical reasons if this service i…

Does this mean that, for one brief shining moment, we can live without the drone of leaf blowers?
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