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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.
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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.
It's always the people involved. People are very resistant to change and prefer to hang on to the status quo.
We already had deeply insightful discussions on this topic here, but I will repeat for new HN people. Covid-19 tends to cause post-viral complications, which manifest themselves as chronic fatigue, body temperature dysregulation, air hunger / shortness of breath with SpO2 of 99%, various neurological symptoms: pain/tingling/numbing sensations in the extremities, parosmia (a distorted sense of smell), parageusia (a di…
Not a doctor. I've struggled with fatigue, memory issues, and brain fog since having covid. Biggest game changer for me has been supplementing NMN in the morning, NAD in the morning and afternoon. Both work to support ATP levels. With this I've been able to get back to gym in the morning and still work through the day with no sleepiness.
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Hi, I couldn't glean from the articles. But it sounds like you have breathing issues from long covid? it may sound ridiculous, but I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times. If I avoid gluten, lactose, canola oil I get far fewer symptoms. I know this likely isn't your issue but I do experience positive airway pressure, coughing, burping, chronic fatigue, exessive yawning. If that sounds like you maybe…
> I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times Same here, at least in regard to gluten. I was in my mid-forties, and I started experiencing painful bloating that often led to difficulty breathing, and after an hour or so of pain, vomiting. The involuntary 'protein spill' alleviated the pain of bloating, but I was left exhausted for the remainder of the day. At first, these episodes occurred about once ev…
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In my mind, that doesn't make the symptoms any less real to the person suffering from them and does absolutely nothing to remedy the situation. Even if it is in the person's head, any doctor offering that advice should be facing consequences for not offering a legitimate path for treatment.
They do - we call them therapists and they are on the hook. Medical doctors deal with BODY related issues.
Anecdote: Back in October '24 I got Covid. My only symptom that stuck around was lack of taste on my tongue (NOT Anosmia, it's lack of salty/sweet/sour/bitter response on the tongue itself), but only on the right half of my tongue. It slowly got better, but last week I lost taste on that side of my tongue again. The taste is coming back again now. Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with me; it's not really severe…
In circa 2022 I got covid and lost smell. First I couldn't smell the spices in the kitchen, but I thought nothing of it. But some days later, I couldn't smell WD-40. That's when I noticed I can't smell anything at all. My sense of smell never really recovered. After about a year, I could faintly smell menthol. Now I have to really try hard if I want to get some faint sense of smell, but a lot of time I just don't sme…
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Not a doctor. I've struggled with fatigue, memory issues, and brain fog since having covid. Biggest game changer for me has been supplementing NMN in the morning, NAD in the morning and afternoon. Both work to support ATP levels. With this I've been able to get back to gym in the morning and still work through the day with no sleepiness.
I've read that certain people can't convert NMN to NAD very well and the accumulation of NMN can actually result in serious neurological issues. Seems to be working fine for you, but I would caution people here to do their research before using any supplements. Some of them can be very harmful, especially in early stages where they haven't been properly studied.
That's great to hear. I remember Simone Giertz breaking out the bad news to her followers and sounding no less serious than when she was talking about her own brain surgery. My former co-worker got COVID twice, as preventive measures didn't fit into his moral framework, and the second time resulted in a mild case of long COVID. I'm saying "mild" as he was not bedridden, but the cognitive decline was noticeable. Long…
I've noticed some of that with family members that have gotten covid, but it's hard to say that it's definitely that as they are older and age related decline is hard to nail down too.
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> "its in your head" insane that it's still so common...
I really get the sentiment that if you look at people who are told "it's all in your head" and then they find some obscure condition that is treatable, it might be considered borderline malpractice for the physician to have told them that... but does the frequency with which patients are told that maybe give some insight into how many psychosomatic patients there really are out there?
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I've read about long COVID and the hallmarks but it seems like Dianna is experiencing something far worse than average. Chronic fatigue is one thing but unable to stand for two years is horrendous. Are there any other recorded cases this severe?
To further this, is "long COVID" actually something we can definitively diagnose? Clearly something is going on with Dianna, but if the symptoms or severity don't match other long COVID cases perhaps there is something else going on there.
Potentially, for mild and heavy forms of post-covid, measuring blood lactate and bicarbonate levels may be helpful [0]. But nobody seems to care enough to follow up with organized evaluations to introduce it into general practice.