Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

Post by crummy » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 7:11 AM UTC

genewitch wrote: post #90

_whiteCaps_ wrote: post #2

I had strange symptoms post-Covid infection - my ability to recognize faces was very distorted and it seemed like everyone was familiar to me. It was like everyone I saw was an old high school acquaintance or maybe a celebrity, and I would get anxious because I didn't remember their name.

there was publications about viruses "causing the host to be more outgoing/in public" in the lead-up to the part of the disease where you're laid up with fluids leaking out of every orifice. I'm fairly certain some flu and iirc sars-ncov-2 were found to display this secondary (or tertiary) effect. So you "catch" a flu. Before you know you've caught it, suddenly you want to go out to dinner, or go to a meetup of frien…

Post by emmelaich » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 7:40 AM UTC

soulofmischief wrote: post #100

andbberger wrote: post #97

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it's stigmatized, has an overwhelmingly complex etiology and no clear empirical signature. i think for the most part people just don't think it's real

After acquiring a bad case of mononucleosis at 18, I acquired CFS which lasted a number of years and severely impacted my ability to focus and make meaningful progress for extended periods of time, and this worsened my depression and anxiety, which exacerbated the problem in a positive feedback loop. Everyone in my life disregarded me or didn't understand the severity of what I was dealing with. Looking back, returni…

Post by hgomersall » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 8:13 AM UTC

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #80

addicted wrote: post #29

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All of this has been true for over half a century. The problem is that the direction of improvement in lives has changed. Compare today to the 90s and there’s very little reason to believe that today is better than the 90s in a developed country. What’s frustrating is that we have MORE tools to be in a much better shape right now. We have things available to us today that people wouldn’t have dreamt of in the 90s, in…

I disagree. Reagan's plans, including legitimizing stock buybacks which were previously taboo stock manipulation, 'starving the beast' where a political party was willing to weaponize making the US government worse in order to achieve their ends, etc. are what is responsible for today's worsening environment. You are conflating current technical change with the results of decades olds political policies.

Post by dyauspitr » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 8:19 AM UTC

throwawaymaths wrote: post #16

findthewords wrote: post #6

Alz is brain inflammatory response to viruses (among other foreing detritus) that got past the blood-brain barrier, so I'm not surprised.

Not fully known but increasing evidence. Pretty stunning result is the discontinuity in all causes dementia for NHS seniors in Wales with the week of birth as the discontinuity point (week of birth is cutoff qualifier for a shingles vaccine)

Post by firecall » Sat, Aug 31, 2024, 8:27 AM UTC

dyauspitr wrote: post #106

H8crilA wrote: post #96

ME/CFS is seriously underinvested. I don't really understand why, any drug that makes a noticeable difference here will be a guaranteed money printer. There are millions of people suffering total disability, many in developed countries that have well funded medical insurance. Compare that to depression (which it only superficially resembles): many SSRIs, SNRIs, multiple "schools" of psychotherapy, neuroleptics, lithi…

You can probably take a low dose of adderall to alleviate atleast the symptoms.