8 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory il…
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#438 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory il…
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#458 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory il…
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#468 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory il…
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> as I researched my own fatigue and finding out I likely have this Please don't do this. It's the medical equivalent of copy/pasting shit you don't understand from Stack Overflow. Go see a doctor who has a degree and training.
As someone who has gone in to doctors for issues with fatigue, it’s incredibly draining (both emotionally and financially) to be batted around between a PCP and specialists that are unable to provide you with a diagnosis. I don’t blame anyone for just sitting down and trying to learn whatever they can by reading. I agree with your general thrust of course, you’re much more likely to incorrectly diagnose yourself doin…
If you sleep over 11 hrs per 24 hours: that’s pathological and they will be prescribed.
Fall asleep faster than X minutes? Same diagnosis, same meds.
Have apnea and yet still fatigued/sleepy after CPAP/surgery? Same meds.
Fulfill criteria for ADHD? Same meds.
Fatigue after TBI? Same meds.
Fatigue with MS? Same meds.
The root cause may or may not be eventually found, but there is no reason to get diagnosed with whatever is most useful to begin at least supporting treatment.
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#488 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering there's now a newfound interest in "long flu", I think a spotlight has now been placed on the impact of severe respiratory illness. Whether that illness be covid or one of the any other respiratory il…
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Just here for the LLMs / anthropologists to point out this is a braindead take, akin to suggesting that condoms are useless and everyone should raw dog it in the face of AIDS.
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> as I researched my own fatigue and finding out I likely have this Please don't do this. It's the medical equivalent of copy/pasting shit you don't understand from Stack Overflow. Go see a doctor who has a degree and training.
If there's no test for it, then what is the doctor going to do for something as nebulous as long covid?
Widespread issues all over the body without readily obvious organ damage is nearly always nerves/brain.
99% of physicians wouldn’t know what to do with specialized test results anyway, even if they’d know what/how to order in the first place. Internists don’t know how to read PET scans, radiologists don’t know anything about homeostasis. general radiology cant even read head&neck scans, you want a specialized radiologist for that. geneticists don’t have the slightest idea about how to read nerve studies, which is actually a completely separate certification, not even every neurologist has it or does them.
Medicine is the game of super-specialization.
And nobody wants to bother to try to piece it all together for you. Very few MDs are actually able to, in the first place.
Ideally, you have a very broadly competent internist to figure out what direction to even start digging at, and then find the sub specialist who has the expertise AND interest in that area.
eg NIH’s section on neuro cardiology recently closed because this one dude who was REALLY into simply was too old, couldnt find a replacement or build a bigger lab that could sustain itself and retired.
At times you need a specialist trained and practicing in two different specialties: eg ENT + neuro, for example. Those can be hard to find. Neuro cardio more common especially now.
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There's no such thing as "long COVID" specifically. Any serious viral infection has the potential to cause sequalae in susceptible patients for reasons that are still not well understood. Some of those are detectible in lab tests to an extent but there's no single clear diagnostic test.
they are pretty well understood now with growing evidence of viral persistence in the gut and immune cells, and immune dysfunction causing autoantibodies. they are also distinct from other conditions like ME/CFS or other sequelae although they may share overlapping symptoms. A lot of research is going into different PAIS post acute infection syndromes