Possible impact of functional active gpcr-autoantibodies in long Covid

Post by AndrewUnmuted » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #24

robhunter wrote: post #19

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By that definition, anyone experiencing chronic illness symptoms "following" (said another way, "after") a Covid infection has "Long Covid" - even if Covid had nothing to do with those chronic illness symptoms developing or continuing. I think we need a better definition.

I think at this point diagnosing long covid necessarily involves trusting patients. If you had no chronic illness symptoms you were aware of, and then get covid, and then have chronic illness symptoms - that's long covid. Until we understand what it is better, there's not going to be any way to objectively test for it, or define it more clearly.

Post by AndrewUnmuted » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #28

throwaway290 wrote: post #20

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You can say that one has sore throat, or fever, or fatigue, or headache. But if you say one has long COVID, you are describing a condition (possibly a new illness, but not yet?) with a wide range of symptoms that occur in different combinations in different people, it seems fine to ask for clarification about what sets it apart other than having gone through acute COVID (natural question, as a person who has gone thr…

> reported by people who have had acute COVID. Plenty of cases of long covid are linked to not-particularly-severe covid cases.