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Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by colordrops »

lend000 wrote: post #19

Anecdata: I had what seemed like relatively mild covid in March 2020, but never fully recovered, and I ended up unable to do strenuous or stressful activity without a super fight or flight physical response. I was in my 20's, and originally very active and fit, although I ate a very high sugar/carb diet. I took a lot of tests and tried a lot of things and made no progress with doctors for about 2 years, until I tried…

I assume you are taking tongkat. Are you concerned at all about reduction in endogenous testosterone production? Did you take a testosterone test?

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by ekianjo »

phpthrowaway99 wrote: post #45
sdrothrock wrote: post #7

Some anecdata... (two doses of Moderna, still haven't gotten the third shot available here and that's on me for not making time) Got covid in the spring, lost my sense of taste, but it started gradually coming back after about six months. Got it again a month ago, lost my senses of smell and taste, also have a persistent cough, persistent tinnitus, tiredness, and more frequent migraines.

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Sorry not sure what you are implying here. The boss died of what at 49?

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by readthenotes1 »

I know 21 people that have had covid, from 3 to 91. 1 person had long covid, still requires oxygen months later.

Either my friends and family are unduly healthy, or there's maybe something questionable about the "half".

If I flipped a coin 21 times and it only came up tails once, I wouldn't believe it was a fair coin...

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by nullrecursion »

darkteflon wrote: post #39
timr wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people are, in fact, amplifying things that scare them (or things that trigger emotions). All I've done here is share an equivalent, balancing anecdote.

The dude just told us he’s lost his dad, and your second paragraph was “let’s not exaggerate”. Your original comment - sharing your own anecdote - would’ve been better without the second paragraph.

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Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by NickM »

John23832 wrote: post #12

I caught OG covid in June of 2020. I've had it once more (Feb of this year). Exposed a third time but tested negative (who knows about these tests). I've had fatigue, tinnitus, and a persistent neck pain since the Feb infection. What I would consider neurological symptoms as well (extremity weakness, vertigo, headaches). I'm pretty young (31). Prior to Feb, I was pretty active. Weight lifting every day, running 2 mil…

Probably a long shot, but have you ever gotten a Lyme test? Tinnitus is a common symptom if it gets into your nervous system, and the other symptoms you describe fit too.

Anecdotally I was having a bunch of bizarre symptoms this summer and thought I had long Covid too, and ended up in the hospital due to heart complications which turned out to be from Lyme. They treated me with the standard antibiotics and I’ve been pretty much fine since then.

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by ekianjo »

timr wrote: post #43
darkteflon wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The dude just told us he’s lost his dad, and your second paragraph was “let’s not exaggerate”. Your original comment - sharing your own anecdote - would’ve been better without the second paragraph.

Yes. The fact that someone's father died is tragic. It still doesn't give them carte blanche to exaggerate or emphasize scary anecdotes at the expense of boring ones.

so your pov is more valid than anyone else's? interesting.

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by phpthrowaway99 »

ekianjo wrote: post #52
phpthrowaway99 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Sorry not sure what you are implying here. The boss died of what at 49?

I'm not implying anything. The people that want to use this anecdata for their purposes will say that it's really odd a healthy active guy dying suddenly in his sleep at 49 is very rare when he was operating regularly on Wednesday at work and didn't make it to Thursday.

What he actually died of, heart attach or brain aneurysm, or blood clot of some kind doesn't really matter because it fits their narrative either way.

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by [deleted] »

dmix wrote: post #33

I'm curious if this study refutes or supports this often cited study on long COVID (I can't tell from the NYTimes article): > We demonstrate an absence of association between symptom burden and radiographic or biochemical abnormality. We suggest that the phenomenon of Long-COVID may not be directly attributable to the effect of SARS-CoV-2, but rather the neuropsychiatric insults may play a greater role in its aetiolo…

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Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by nvahalik »

John23832 wrote: post #40
nvahalik wrote: post #22

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I'm sorry to hear about your issues and hope you get to feeling better. I've seen perfectly healthy people—before and after COVID—who literally had their life changed due to a completely random infection or issue. People who went deaf after having a baby or developed T1 diabetes. Some people were "perfectly healthy". But some people seemed healthy until they weren't. One day, their eating/drinking/smoking habits caug…

I'm conscious of my health. I've had CATs and MRI's to rule herniations and pinched nerves out (I said that in my post). I was also ACTUALLY healthy. Seen a PT because that's what doctors recommend before imaging.

Dang.

Well, hoping you find some answers, then.

Re: Nearly half of Covid patients haven’t fully recovered months later, study finds

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Post by ekianjo »

timr wrote: post #37
mritun wrote: post #35

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Almost nobody wears seatbelts in India and 99.9999% of them do not get into accidents or die when they do. What’s exactly your point unless you’re trying to say that your anecdote is better than theirs? Have you considered that it may just be your survivor bias talking and just maybe you are just plan lucky? I’ve lost family members covid! Have friends who did too.

My anecdote is not better than another anecdote. That's the point. Anecdotes are worthless, but you're here arguing about mine, because mine is boring, and you don't think that's appropriate. That's a problem. For whatever it's worth, though...the fact that dozens of people I know have had it and are fine isn't "luck".

What kind of anecdotes do you expect in a thread about an article related to long term effects of Covid?

Its like expecting 4chan comments on HN.

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