It’s been described as the silent pandemic – an estimated one in five people will develop Long Covid and women are twice as likely suffer long term symptoms. Casey Briggs is joined by Professor Gail Matthews who’s involved in one of the longest-running studies on Long Covid.
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What y'all don't know is Covid symptoms / antibiotic reactions 🤔 covid symptoms are the same experiences as FLORAQUINILONE toxicity syndrome Reactions 🤔 and there is nothing normal about this
Greetings from a Californian with long covid. I originally got Covid in late Mar. 2020. Over 2 years later, I still have residual problems, although this summer they seem to be slowly improving. However, I also started walking 3X/wk., which I think helps. I can feel that a big factor is inflammation. At night time it flares so I take a little aspirin to get to sleep. A good antiviral might help, but that is still pretty new as far as I know. Hope this helps others – good luck to all. Stay safe out there.
Yep my second time I've had a cold for over a month, the first was after getting my first jab, being a front line worker and not getting sick like this during the first wave I was forced to get the jab during the second wave which saw me finally getting this unusual flu 😅🤫
Sooooo, who is looking after all the vazz injured???.. or we going to keep that under the carpet???
Long Covid is an excellent tool to gloss over any issues of multiple Boosters.
A complication from the 5th dose can be blamed on a 2020 Covid infection. Brilliant
My brother has been double vaxed and like many people still contracted covid. He has chronic asthma and also beat cancer and leukaemia in his 20’s . He now has long Covid and has had every symptom referred to in this report. The worst part is that it has stirred up his previous cancer which has been laying dormant for 20 years. Specialist have given him between 3 – 5 months to live. It breaks my heart to see my wonderful brother struggling to breathe.
I had covid in June 2020, I suffered many problems like headaches, body aches, pain in my ribs and general sence of not being myself, It felt like i will not feel myself again.
But somehow after 2 years all symptoms have gone. Alhamdulillah.
Things that helped me during my healing journey
Anti inflammatory diet
Rgular walks
Sleep
4 time gym session a week
Strong personal relations
Strong sencse of connection with Allah ( creator) and Namaz as Muslim we offer 5 times a day
Now we've gone from 126 to 15 on the "World-o-meter" without any real logical reason for this. We seem to be the most infected country in the whole world. Why is this. London virtually climb all over each-other on busses and trains and yet they're in a much better state that we are. Why is this. In Tokyo, the most populated city in the world is smiling though this mess. What the heck is happening to Australians?
The vaccine makes long Covid WORSE. Recent clinical data revealed taking the vaccine during the 6 months before contracting Omicron increases the odds of developing Long Covid by 64% (from 2.79% to 4.57%). Check drbeen review of the Omicron long covid research paper for details.
What's the % who suffer this vacced/non-vacced?
There are many men who have long covid across the world too, also many young fit and healthy, including children. The tale of it been mainly women is an incorrect statistic. Ive had long covid for 28 months now, it can still render me bedbound with intense fatigue, I now have random breakouts of what is thought of as hives . Blurred vision, tinitus, chest pains and many other strange symptoms. I cant hold down a job, due to never knowing when I am going to relapse, or how long for.
Im in the uk, and so far, my experience is, the government and health departments are beginning to wash their hands of anything linked to LC sufferers. We are lumped in with the poor sufferes of ME, fibromyalgia and PTSD
I've had LC for 6 months. It has improved some but my brain is not the same and have trouble with focus and concentration. I have POTS like symptoms when standing and exertion, tinnitus mildly. I'm not able to work full time yet only 3 half days a week.
Long covid is actually mostly long vaccination side effects.
shame on you
Long covid lol What a scam! Please give it a break already..
is it the vaccine?
Everyone who gets the virus says,"Oh well, it would have been worse if I hadn't had the Vaccie." Well, that is all supposition, isn't it. I'm supprised to see that there are still so many deaths from the infection. – No qualifications. If you want people to trust "the Science" you'd better get a better way of handling the information that is out there and not making it up, ignoring it or misinterpreting it. And why do you not make clear what protocols are available and being used, both ambulant and in the Hospitals. How biased is the reporting there in Australia? Still politically governed by the CCp and Pharma companies?
The ones that don't want to go back to work.
FREE TAIWAN.
Boring
Why don't you reveal for all to make sense of this whether the lady from Springsure or anyone else who is experiencing these symptoms they have been vaccinated & how many times??
This question has already been answered: Mainly women over 50 and those who have type 2 diabetes and those who has tested positive for Epstein Barr virus. So… 1, 2 and 3… ladies you're chucked into the OBLIVION BIN. Also the same paradoxically for those with ME/CFS so pull your fingers out folks and help those who have been living with this for 30 years plus. The GREAT SILENT minority.
Im glad that vaccine worked then hey….oh wait 🤔
Wouldnt the un-vaccinted be the most lilkly to get it?
This is happening to me, I just can't seem to be getting better, tired and lungs are hurting and dizyness all the time, this is my second time having covid
I got Covid after travelling to the US to visit friends in late Feb. 2020. I didn't have any symptoms either but after that trip noticed the shortness of breath when running. I was a novice runner and was running up to 8 mi and a few months after that trip I was struggling to run 2 miles and it got worse and worse. I also developed this fatigue and was drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day to stay awake and wasn't good enough, also tried various B complex vitamins which didn't help either. Was put on additional asthma meds and even prednisone on and off, didn't help. Also brain fog and trouble concentrating, sometimes I will be working on something and suddenly zone out. Finally found out from long Covid support groups and also naturopath friend about supplements that help some. Also bought a vagus nerve stimulation device made by a Canadian company and approved by Health Canada. Check out vagus nerve stimulation, various companies make these devices including in the US. Covid affects vagus nerve which will affect things like breathing and fatigue.
I had Covid in October 2021. Previously, I had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, endometriosis, and several mental issues. When I had Covid I didn’t experience any of the “normal” symptoms, I didn’t have a cough, or any kind of congestion at all. It was pure pain, a fibro flare that I had never felt. And then, it just never ended. What used to be a flare 2 years ago is now a typical day. I’ve gone from being able to work 50+ hours a week at my factory job, to being completely immobile several days a week. Until I saw this, I truly thought that I was either losing my mind or dying. I’m 23, and this has completely taken so much of my life away from me.
All the people I know with long term covid are the one that were vaccinated
I wonder what the vaccination percentage is of those with long covid 🤔 everyone I know that got covid have all been multiple jabbed and that's in Shitney, we've got over 45k a day testing positive atm, higher than what it was when Gladys slapped us into a lockdown last year.
I live in Manitoba Canada. I contracted COVID in January 2022 and was off work for two weeks with symptoms (was not hospitalized though, thank gosh!). I never really bounced back though. I am now dealing with concerning symptoms of long COVID. I'm lucky to have a really good doctor who has referred me to a respirologist, cardiologist, and a health rehab program. But my life has really shrunk. Before COVID I was going to the gym 3 times a week (which was huge for me) and fairly active with gardening, socializing, walking with my dogs, housework. Now I walk up a flight of stairs at home and have to sit for a few minutes to clear the dizziness and pounding heart/breathlessness. I can barely do housework or grocery shop. It could be worse but it's not great either. Wishing all my fellow long COVID sufferers recovery!
I tested positive for covid today. I already have chronic pain stemming from a pain disorder. I hope I don't develop long covid because it'd make my chronic pain and fatigue worse.
If SARS COV2 better replicate at low tissue temperature (see at TWiV Nr 659 at min29 what Christian Drosten indicate) may be fever mitigate viral replication?
May be ,not avoiding fever,viral replication can be mitigate.
May be low body temperature enhance viral replication?
May be ,,low temperature agglutinine ,, (like) antibody occur after SARS COV2 infection at some patients,(?)and can induce cappilary subobstruction at low blood temperature (?)
May be low body temperature must be avoided?