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Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by simondanerd »

tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

I know two people that are just now getting out of bed and able to do basic things, both diagnosed with Long COVID. Knew another that was sick for a year afterwards, and my brain can't hold info like it used to. It's ugly when it gets a hold of you, that's for sure.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by teebSQAD9 »

tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

I’ve had it for a few years too, it’s really hard, hang in there!

If you want another thing to try, I found that temporarily wearing a nicotine patch [1] helped a lot. But it seems like it doesn’t work for everyone.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36650574/

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by techcode »

looofooo0 wrote: post #93
bigolkevin wrote: post #83

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Cannot speak for the person before, but I gave up on any protection. With 3 children from 3-10 it will catch me anyhow.

And while kids often end up with just headache and slight fever that goes away after a day - adults end with at least proper flu (e.g. higher fever, joints/muscle pain ...) for a week or two.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

looofooo0 wrote: post #93
bigolkevin wrote: post #83

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Cannot speak for the person before, but I gave up on any protection. With 3 children from 3-10 it will catch me anyhow.

The tragedy isn’t that we don’t wear masks routinely, it’s that people think they have a right to infect anyone because of their own sense of personal freedom.

Immediately when restrictions ended here, you could be in a large department store or supermarket and hear people coughing badly, or sneezing. If you know you feel under the weather, pop on a mask. But no, “freedom”, “it’s a conspiracy”. I swear “freedom” is just short hand for “I’m an asshole”.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by 4bpp »

jdietrich wrote: post #72
davidt84 wrote: post #62

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Without knowingly being infected with COVID is probably a better way to phrase that.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02537-22

> The final study population comprised 341 participants (90.6% females) who completed blood sampling and answered the questionnaire. A total of 232 (68%) were seropositive

How does this compare to the base rate in a similar population? Two thirds sounds like a reasonable estimate for "ever had COVID" in Denmark in 2022, though maybe a smaller percentage would in fact be seropositive. It would be interesting if self-reported long COVID had little or no correlation with having had COVID at all.

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Post by michh »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #92
michh wrote: post #82

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Another Dutchie here. Anything not immediately fatal is indeed treated by just taking it easy and perhaps some paracetamol for the placebo effect. I have a chronic illness in the same kind of category and it took me years to find out what it was and to get proper treatment. Which has improved my quality of life dramatically ! But even now I travel halfway across the country to a university hospital where a specialist…

Are you sure you aren’t in the US? I find specialists here have zero intellectual curiosity. Sure, they recognize the most common condition in their field when blatantly obvious. When it comes to the second most common issue in their field or anything not blatantly obvious (significant test result and 10/10 excruciating pain), they will just offer no diagnosis and go no further. Just getting them to do an exam or eve…

The first one I saw was like that. But I went for a Second Opinion, as is my right, and it was a world of difference.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by philjohn »

acomjean wrote: post #28
tempfile wrote: post #21

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I think the point being made was diseases can be difficult to diagnose. Some diseases don’t have explicit tests. ADHD is diagnosed by looking at just symptoms if I remember correctly. I’m not sure about autism. I knew someone who became sick. At first it was thought to be Lyme, it took a long while to determine and a bunch of other theories to determine it was lupus. Tests were not fully accurate and these illnesses…

Autism diagnosis requires (or at least should, for it to be done properly) a multidisciplinary evaluation.

In the case of my children, there were certain tests that were absolutely definitive, and not reliant on interpretation - namely, idioms and metaphors. It's raining cats and dogs, for example.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by TreetopPlace »

dataengineer56 wrote: post #99
aquir wrote: post #67

I’m following her progress on Patreon and the fact that she’s getting better is great! Can’t wait her comeback video!

I find it interesting that she's both kept her Patreon up during this time and has also become far more successful https://graphtreon.com/creator/physicsgirl , in spite of posting no content.

This is honestly shocking and I don't know how to process this information.

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by chmorgan_ »

jdietrich wrote: post #72
davidt84 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without knowingly being infected with COVID is probably a better way to phrase that.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02537-22

note that this is 'self reported long covid'. For a proper study you'd need an objective measure otherwise it can't be determined what might be long covid vs. fatigue from working late hours at work, changes in mood due to season, changes due to age etc.

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Post by ndileas »

scotty79 wrote: post #77
Vampiero wrote: post #19

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> a lot of them think it’s psychological. no worse feeling in the world than hearing a doctor confidently tell you that it's all in your head and that you're wasting their time. Ask me how I know..

Doctors used to believe allergy is psychological. I think there are no actual psychological diseases. All have underlying physical causes.

I agree with this, as a monist. Unfortunately medicine is still very much in its infancy in this regard - many things are too subtle or just still hidden.
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