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

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

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Post by throwaway_4179 »

Yep. People think I'm exaggerating when I say I've developed dementia. It's pretty intense (and terrifying) on the inside, but I've found ways to compensate to appear vaguely normal on the outside. Look, I'm even using multisyllabic words here!

I also have the profound cardiovascular deconditioning described in other comments. So many hopes dreams flushed down the toilet, but people assume that I'm just lazy and stupid. My heart goes out to the millions with this condition who aren't as privileged as I am. At least I have savings and family to fall back on (as well as a large cognitive reserve).

AMA, I guess!

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

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Post by BaculumMeumEst »

BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #40

Fuck, I recently had Covid and I've been having trouble recalling things. Every other day or so I'll spend 5-10 seconds remembering the name of something. It's possible this happened before I got Covid, though... I don't remember!

Wait, no, false alarm. I remember this happened before COVID. The first thing I remember having trouble remembering was the name of the game "Signalis". That was like a year ago. I'm mid thirties. So it's not COVID, I'm just demented. What a relief!! I should play Signalis again...

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

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Post by throwaway_4179 »

patrickdavey wrote: post #113

I visited two friends recently when I was back in Ireland. They had both been fit climber/orienteering types. Both now incapacitated with long covid. Both had been vaccinated. I went for a very short very slow walk with one of them. She wears a fancy Garmin which beeps when her heart rate goes over 100bpm. We walked for 15 mins and it went off. I really hadn't realised quite how real and quite how incapacitating long…

That's me. One of the hardest parts is that people assume I'm just lazy, because how else could someone be as out of shape as I am? But the truth is that I love intense exercise, and even still try to do it. The body just doesn't respond any more.

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

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Post by MobileVet »

profsummergig wrote: post #66
goochphd wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah for sure. So say your category is "fruits and vegetables". You might say Avocado, Banana, Celery, etc. The goal is to challenge yourself, and it's more of a stretch than you'd think (but a good exercise). Or at least, it was a stretch for me especially at the beginning

Thanks. I seem to remember an article, about someone very accomplished, where they described their "sleep meditation"; it was something very similar.

Yea, I Just read that last week… of course I can’t find it now on my phone.

I have been using it all week. It concentrates the mind but on random things.. which helps with boredom and sleep. It also avoids spiraling down on a single topic which typically makes sleep harder.

They suggested not only thinking the word but also visualizing it. I have found it fairly effective this week

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

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Post by hatenberg »

bamboozled wrote: post #126
iforgotpassword wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ME/CFS cases about doubled after covid, and is not even known to be a thing by a lot of doctors. So the symptoms are easily brushed off as "get your shit together" or misdiagnosed as depression. Also your anecdote aligns with the fact that it's more women than men who get it.

I don't want to be rude, but if there is no way of reliably testing for long covid, you might as well say it could be anything, including depression ? How is a doctor, who could see hundreds of patients a week supposed to know ?

It can be diagnosed now

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

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Post by filoeleven »

highcountess wrote: post #130
patrickdavey wrote: post #113

I visited two friends recently when I was back in Ireland. They had both been fit climber/orienteering types. Both now incapacitated with long covid. Both had been vaccinated. I went for a very short very slow walk with one of them. She wears a fancy Garmin which beeps when her heart rate goes over 100bpm. We walked for 15 mins and it went off. I really hadn't realised quite how real and quite how incapacitating long…

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Yes, and rates of long Covid are higher in the unvaccinated. It took under 30 seconds to find this out via web search.

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

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Post by loa_in_ »

ben_w wrote: post #116
genewitch wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I have a suspicion that, for similar reasons, STDs would also be likely to make people hornier.

As teens would say, "getting laid will give you a confidence boost and make you feel manlier". This is anecdotal, but I'd say that I've seen this happen.

Many common viruses like HSV are passed down to children do I'd say exposure is nearly impossible to avoid.

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

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Post by klingoff »

hatenberg wrote: post #135
bamboozled wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to be rude, but if there is no way of reliably testing for long covid, you might as well say it could be anything, including depression ? How is a doctor, who could see hundreds of patients a week supposed to know ?

It can be diagnosed now

Sure, but depression and immune system seem to be linked, so how do we know we aren't just more clearly separating viral components in boughts of heightened depression?

Personally I think our relationship with flu tells us a lot about the difference between our claimed ideals and our actual behavior as a society. We didn't want to know anything about it for curiosities sake and we invented all sorts of higher priorities to not study the mundane diseases between pandemics.

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

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Post by iforgotpassword »

bamboozled wrote: post #126
iforgotpassword wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ME/CFS cases about doubled after covid, and is not even known to be a thing by a lot of doctors. So the symptoms are easily brushed off as "get your shit together" or misdiagnosed as depression. Also your anecdote aligns with the fact that it's more women than men who get it.

I don't want to be rude, but if there is no way of reliably testing for long covid, you might as well say it could be anything, including depression ? How is a doctor, who could see hundreds of patients a week supposed to know ?

Well, how is a doctor who doesn't even know about it supposed to either diagnose it or rule it out? Depression is also something you cannot just reliably diagnose from a blood sample or something, so just going "depression!" as soon as someone starts talking about brain fog and being listless seems unfair. Most Doctors think in categories, they don't want to challenge what they already know and have been practicing for years. So the most important thing now is education, spreading awareness.
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