Coronavirus: 'Long Covid could be four different syndromes' (BBC)

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"Long Covid" - the long-lasting impact of coronavirus infection - may be affecting people in four different ways, according to a review.

And this could explain why some of those with continuing symptoms are not being believed or treated.

There could be a huge psychological impact on people living with long-term Covid-19, the National Institute for Health Research report says.

They need more support - and healthcare staff require better information.
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These symptoms may be due to four different syndromes:

permanent organ damage to the lungs and heart
post-intensive-care syndrome
post-viral fatigue syndrome
continuing Covid-19 symptoms
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more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54540544
the report cited: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19/



ETA: also check out this thread on "Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome" by appalachiablue: https://democraticunderground.com/1016272862

[lapfog_1]

1. post-viral fatigue syndrome

that's what I got...

hope it goes away. I'm sleeping like 12 to 14 hours a day

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. How long since you had it?

I think I had it in late January, and I didn’t really lose the fatigue symptom until about early May.

I would also attribute some of my recovery from the fatigue to an excellent exercise program I discovered on PBS. Doing much better now.

Stay with it. Move a little more every day. You have to work some to get your strength back.

[lapfog_1]

3. i believe I was infected 2 weeks ago today

tested a week ago, reported to me as positive on Wednesday.

mild case... headaches, fatigue, little sore throat, little cough, short of breath. Blood O2 dipped to 92 about 3 to 4 days after infection, no fever, some body aches.

Now, 2 weeks later, I feel OK. runny nose a little bit (which is a weird one, feels like I have a bloody nose but it isn't blood). Blood O2 is now 95, normal is maybe 96 / 97 for me. no fever, no cough, no headaches... but fatigue... extreme fatigue. Like I get up a normal time but fall asleep after bathroom and eating something, wake up around 11am... putter around, eat lunch... nap time... wake up again... maybe do a little work, maybe eat dinner... and fall asleep again by 11pm and sleep till 9am.

Normally I sleep only 7 hours a day.

I am older (63) and have type 2 diabetes and a heart condition (WPW).

I will get tested every 2 weeks until negative... and then isolate for another week or so after that.

I hope the fatigue goes away.

[appalachiablue]

4. Current article on post-viral fatigue syndrome. Rest & feel better, TC.

I had a sydrome like this almost similar to yours, but fall- winter, Nov.- April, 2018-19 before Covid.

I never had anything like it in my life- thought it could be from an insect bite, Lyme Tick? although not as severe or destructive, maybe a light form of Mono, or from some pathogen in the air system.

I had no respiratory/gastro-int. issues or common flu symptoms, only fatigue, slight runny nose, brief migrane headache, some confusion.

Very weird, it drug on for months, really set me back but I'm grateful I finally came out of it by later spring 2019.

I'll probably never know what it was, but as a result and w/ Covid, I'm being good about shots/vaccines this year.

Trying to reduce risks, in the same age bracket as you.

-> 'Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome, The Condition Affecting Some Covid-19 Survivors,' The Conversation, Oct. 5, 2020,
https://theconversation.com/what-is-post-viral-fatigue-syndrome-the-condition-affecting-some-covid-19-survivors-146851

[lapfog_1]

5. YIKES!!

that is not re-assuring at all.

[appalachiablue]

7. Sorry, although you sound a lot better than this article. *I just

added more to my Note above. Get better, stay well.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. You're early in.

You probably need the rest to recover at this point. Sounds like you’re on a good track, though.

My case seems like it was worse than yours, although in January i had no idea it could actually be coronavirus. No oxygen levels,testing, social distance, or masks at that time. It was rough. Headache, body aches, insomnia, all the tummy issues. I am 61. But mine didn’t go for my lungs...it seemed to go after my digestive system, and tried to get into my kidneys at the end.

It was weeks before I could eat normally, and weeks more before I felt myself. I feel sorta glad that I didn’t know it was coronavirus at the time. I may have panicked.