• Hohsia [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Covid outbreak in my town rn

    Absolute insanity, I’m telling my boss I’m not coming in the office this week and idgaf what happens after

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        Thankfully for me it is not as serious as I have heard of in other cases. But my ability to concentrate for long periods of time, hold a train of thought, remember how to complete a sentence I started, etc. have definitely been severely affected. Doofy airheadedness is way up stonks-up

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      I avoided it for four years, and am just 1/2 way through paxlovid now, having caught it last Sunday. I’m doing everything I can think of to avoid LC.

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    At least one coworker per week for the past four weeks has called in sick with confirmed Covid at my workplace and I’m still the only person at the office who wears a mask and eats outside instead of at my desk.

    yea

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        Tbh a lot of people with long covid do recover in like 6 months to 2 years. I know quite a lot of people who have had it and they all said that they started recovering after 6 months and most of them are almost fully recovered now.

        Obviously it’s still horrible to be sick for so long so avoiding spread always the best option.

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          I had Long COVID. (Though, not as long as other people.) I had difficulty breathing for 2-4 months, brain fog for 4-5 months, and a low-grade fever of 99.8 F (37.5 C) for nearly a whole year. Shit sucked. I basically don’t remember anything that happened during those months I had brain fog.

          This was after 3 vaccines. I can’t imagine how bad it would’ve been if I didn’t have them. During the worst part of the infection, my fever was constantly on the tipping point of “go to the ER” fever.

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            That sucks. I still have a lot of brain fog after 6 months of long covid. I have trouble remembering what I did a week ago. Was finishing my studies before getting covid but have and will be out of the running for a while because I can’t concentrate for more than an hour.

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    Probably a lot more… I know my partners is suffering from the repercussions of long COVID. It triggered an immune response which ended up becoming RA. We are in our 30s dealing with one of the most aggressive forms of arthritis… that’s not okay…

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    Wasn’t there a study recently that showed that long covid odds go up with every subsequent infection?

    This whole country is going to be covid zombies in a few years.

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      There has been three or four studies, and they all show long covid risk going up with repeat infections. The damage from infections accumulates with each infection, and Iirc we have about a 4% chance of developing long covid after every infection. Essentially the same chance as rolling snake eyes on a pair of dice.

      The problem now is the lack of covid testing and the wide range of symptoms and their severity. People chalk it up to aging or “sometimes bodies just do that”. It’s hard to definitively track the risk to know whether it’s improving or not.

      With how infectious the virus is, and how much of the body it can attack, and how rapidly it’s mutating (approx 4x faster than the flu), the protection we get from a vaccine or exposure doesn’t last long enough. Getting covid 2-3 times a year if you drop all precautions seems like a really, really bad idea.

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      Long-covid is a term for a huge collection of symptoms people have experienced post-covid infection

      Including but not limited to: Loss of taste or smell, incorrect taste or smell, brain fog, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, headaches, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and a whole collection of GI issues

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        Chronic fatigue is another big one - my sister can’t go out and do things more than two days in a row without being bedbound for the next two.

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          I’m really sorry for your sister. It might slowly get better in years to come, but it’s hard to say.

          My sister had post mononucleosis syndrome (long mono). She had what your sister had, but maybe only 10% as bad as your sister. The frustrating thing is that women are so much more likely to get long post viral conditions, which makes it much more likely to ignore.

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        fuck, I developed weird GI issues in 2020. No other symptoms though.

        I never had a symptomatic infection, so idk if it’s because of COVID (an asymptomatic infection causing chronic symptoms?) or random aging related shit.

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          so idk if it’s because of COVID (an asymptomatic infection causing chronic symptoms?) or random aging related shit.

          That’s the fun question we get to ask for the rest of our lives.rage-cry

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          It’s hard to say. My feeling is that asymptomatic infections are less likely to lead to long COVID, but is possible. It is worth considering other issues. Have you tried randomly cutting out various foods to see if that affects it? Like give up milk products, nuts, or gluten for a few days and see what comes up.

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            it’s still very possible to get long covid from an asymptomatic infection. any infection is going to be doing damage to anything in the body that uses blood whether you get acute symptoms or not

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      The range is massive. It can be difficulty in breathing, heart palpitations, lack of energy, problems with digestion, poor memory or lack of concentration, immune dis-regulation, and much more. It’s quite hard to “test” for long COVID. They’ve managed to find certain antibodies in some long COVID patients, but it’s still so new that it’s not something that you’re gonna get at a hospital unless you’re incredibly posh. They best was to tell that you have long COVID is test and find out that you have COVID, and then when things don’t get better after months, assume you have long COVID. Sorry things are wishy washy at this point, but the science is so damn new on this topic.