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BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:57 PM Jul 2020

I got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage

By Richard Quest, Business editor-at-large, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html

"The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back."

"Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19.
I got infected back in mid-April.
I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. If I reach for a glass, or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture. It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn't working.
At times there's a sense of mild confusion. The micro delay in a thought, the hesitation with a word. Nobody would notice but me.
My digestive system is peculiar, to say the least.
It doesn't matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage -- my body doesn't feel quite right.
The cough has been with me for days, I have been tired and needed to take naps. I tripped over the camera tripod then fell over a chair! I am concerned but not panicked, yet."

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I got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage (Original Post) BigmanPigman Jul 2020 OP
This is scary stuff. Thanks for the link and the heads-up. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2020 #1
I just saw him on CNN and it scared me (a lot). BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #2
Sounds a speeding up of old age. safeinOhio Jul 2020 #3
Covid shortens life spans too. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #4
Sounds like it. safeinOhio Jul 2020 #7
It does... 10 or more years studies say... BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #10
These are studies of people who have died of COVID-19 Steelrolled Jul 2020 #16
Yes - my doctor told me to expect KT2000 Jul 2020 #5
It causes neurological and vascular damage... BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #6
So much for Medicare for all. safeinOhio Jul 2020 #9
Well, my response to him was KT2000 Jul 2020 #11
All of this reminds me of my CFS/ME symptoms Duppers Jul 2020 #14
Yes - that is exactly KT2000 Jul 2020 #15
But. but. . .dr. Death told us that 99% of cases were perfectly harmless!! niyad Jul 2020 #8
I had no idea. It must affect the brain. I didn't know that. underpants Jul 2020 #12
Definitely neurological damage... BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #13

safeinOhio

(32,523 posts)
3. Sounds a speeding up of old age.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:09 PM
Jul 2020

I’ve have most of those symptoms and they have developed after 60. Slowly over time.

 

Steelrolled

(2,022 posts)
16. These are studies of people who have died of COVID-19
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 05:23 PM
Jul 2020

and are saying they did about 10-15 years earlier than would otherwise be expected, based on their current health. Which is another way of saying that most of the people who died were not young.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
5. Yes - my doctor told me to expect
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:16 PM
Jul 2020

there will be a lot of people experiencing post-virus issues. They will be put in the same category, medically speaking, as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, etc. I asked if Covid group group will be marginalized like the other conditions, and he said that remains to be seen. I have a hard time believing the "it's all in your head, psychological" explanation will fly much longer.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
14. All of this reminds me of my CFS/ME symptoms
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:04 AM
Jul 2020

My CFS began decades ago after my "recovery" from an unknown viral infection.

The internal med specialist I saw at the time said I seemed to have contracted a malaria type of illness - this was in the 70s.

He was the one doc at that time who refused to go to the "it's all in your head" excuse. I was grateful. Since then, I've found a few docs who accept the facts of my illness and thankfully, although untreatable, my symptoms have lessened over the decades.


KT2000

(20,544 posts)
15. Yes - that is exactly
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 02:35 PM
Jul 2020

what he was saying. If this does come to pass I sure hope that marginalization by the medical mainstream ends.

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