Had the pleasure of catching covid prime back in May 20 and my breathing has only normalised in the last few months. Took a while!
Between the physical impact of covid on people’s brains and the mental impact of lockdown we are in for a rough ride.
Look at the people with the weak immune systems, point and laugh, especially at the asthmatics with their feeble lungs
It’s quite amazing how much publicity is devoted to ‘long covid’ despite a lack of a definitive test to prove its existence.
Compare that to the decades of neglect and gaslighting of those unfortunate enough to have got Lyme Disease and did not recover as promptly as the NHS thought they should.
When I got Covid I barely had symptoms. One day of a sore throat.
But playing football since? Fuck me is my breathing a bit fucked.
>self-reported
Right.
>A total of 398,000 – one in five – say their ability to undertake day-to-day activities has been “limited a lot”, the ONS found.
Strange how you have to read a bit down to get to this bit. I’m sure though the usual /r/uk people will be predicting the coming “Long Covid” zombie apocalypse. Just like Covid one we never had.
I know a few people in my circle suffering from long term ailments. FYI, a continued issue with taste and smell is very likely associated with reduced brain matter in the region responsible for handling taste and smell. If you know anyone in this situation get them on smell and taste training to rebuild the matter.
Its an unknown virus. We dont know half of what its done to any of us who have caught it, or whats its capable of.
Dont wait for the govrnment to tell you to wash your hands. Perhaps consider wearing your mask still.
Long Covid is what scares me. I don’t fear dying or being hospitalised, as that’s extremely unlikely given I’m triple-vaxxed and still quite young. But Long Covid has a real possibility of affecting me, and could last for months, possibly even years.
That’s why I continue to wear an N95 in certain settings, and take a lateral flow before meeting family. I’ve yet to catch the virus (although I may have been asymptomatic without knowing it). Covid is less dangerous now, sure, and we don’t have to lockdown anymore, but we still need to be careful.
And they have assessed just 5818 for treatment in their specialist clinics. The last figure we got out of the NHS was they had diagnosed just 28k people with it in total. The gap between the problem and recognition of it in the NHS is vast. They have a history of dismissal of post viral conditions, they only stopped torturing ME/CFS patients November last year in the official guidelines although so far almost all the clinics have refused to implement the new guidelines so the torture has continued.
I suspect most long haulers when treatment options arrive will need to travel abroad or pay privately to get treated due to the widespread systemic prejudice in the NHS.
Omicron has basically produced 100-200k new sufferers a month since January, its really quite impressive what letting Covid run did to the disability count in this country and it has exposed a lot of people to how the NHS treats post viral patients, with disdain, contempt and disbelief.
I know someone who is still suffering from it. Before he contracted it way back at the start of 2021, he was the kind of person that would cycle 5 miles to work, 15 miles on his lunch break, and 5 miles back home.
Nowadays he can barely climb the stairs without losing his breath.
Very sad – it’s totally wrecked him.
Girlfriend had Covid last year end of August. Her sense of smell has not fully recovered yet, sometimes to her benefit, but you know.
Amazing that its taken this long for the NHS to acknowledge symptoms consistent with CFS & ME, after dismissing them for decades as malingering.
Fuck the NHS.
Does certain food tasting different since catching COVID count? If so add me dairy tastes like cat piss now to me
More like lazy fucks using it as an excuse to remain off work.
Had it in December, still get chest pain if I breath in too deep or if anything presses on my chest. No previous history of lung problems or asthma. Hope it passes soon.
No long term physical ailments post-Covid but man I suspect the brain fog lasted at least a couple of months the first time for me.
Exactly 6 months later, I’ve contracted covid again. Identical symptoms. I just pray no for no long lasting brain fog.. .
Still dealing with PEM and heart issues among other things. Month 18, no end in sight.
It’s the perfect caper
‘Long covid’ LOL. People are just too dumb and brainwashed to admit that it’s the experimental gene therapy ‘vaccines’ that have fucked them up long term. Give it until the end of the decade and things will really start getting interesting as their immune systems practically fail.
This is very poor reporting (again) of the purpose of the ONS survey.
The survey is self-reporting, people who think that they have some long term effects of a historical covid infection. To give some context:
Many of these reports will be false correlations.
Some will have never had Covid.
30% report that their long covid symptoms don’t really impact their life.
50% say the symptoms they have aren’t significantly impactful.
The survey allows us to define what the symptoms of long covid might be so that we can conduct studies (not surveys) to determine what the real prevalence of long covid is. The last survey had one of the primary self reported symptoms as “anxiety”. Whether anxiety is a symptom of long covid or simply a normal response to living during a pandemic is a fair question to ask and demonstrates the difference between a survey and a study IMO.
The headline is unnecessarily inflammatory, about 400k people believe they have significant (undiagnosed) long term symptoms, substantially less actually will have.
This is a disease with unknown prognosis and no known treatments in the UK with a medical culture which does not particularly specialise in treating chronic conditions
Avoid like the plague
They misspelled lazy.
My wife has it, before she caught it she was super fit, could run 10k no problem, pretty much a full on hyperactive fitness freak.
Since she had it, she gets extremely tired from a casual 5 mile bike ride.
She is slowly getting better, but we went to a music festival at the weekend and once we came home she slept for a straight 13 hours and felt really ill the next day. She did have some drinks over the weekend but nothing extreme, no drugs etc.
It’s really shit.
Edit: ooof, a lot of tinfoil at the bottom of these comments…. sheesh!
Knowing there are Two million people in UK suffering from long COVID, what is it been done to help the Two million people????
Very much like the Tory MP’s with their second and third jobs lobbying for their cronies to get unusable PPE contracts and collect BROWN ENVELOPES at public expense.
Interesting to read people’s experiences and sorry to see that people are still suffering. I’ve been lucky so far (by lucky, I mean I live like it’s the summer of 2020 still).
Whats their definition though
Can this be proven in any way? These symptoms sound like everyone had a Long Covid for the last 30 years.
Yeah it’s a post viral syndrome, something long known to exist in medical circles and sars was known to be one of the viruses that can cause it..
I told so many anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers about this but the tories lead these people to their own suffering.. Atleast I didn’t take the bait. I hope many of you didn’t too.
I’m 18 months with long covid. It has been a nightmare. I was super fit before. For 6 months I couldn’t even walk round a small pond in my park, 12 months of rocking vertigo (feeling as if I was on a boat in rough seas) with overwhelming seasickness. Noise and light sensitive. Really bad cognitive dysfunction, like a dementia patient. I had to rehab as if I had a traumatic brain injury. Thankfully, I am coming through the other side now. Left with fatigue though. The fatigue isn’t like anything I had ever experience before and I’m a shift worker and deployed on operations with the military. The fatigue is debilitating. Long covid is a living nightmare.
Since I caught it a few months back, while the primary flu-like symptoms only lasted a week or so, it took two weeks to return a negative test result and since that time I have definitely noticed that it’s much easier to get out of breath and it doesn’t take much to trigger an occasional cough. It does seem to be improving very gradually, and I’m trying to help accelerate that via exercise, but it’s definitely not fun. This was with three jabs as well.
It is a very real disease that happens to be dominant among public sector workers. I imagine that they will have to work from home indefinitely.
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So this is what “living with” covid looks like.
Had the pleasure of catching covid prime back in May 20 and my breathing has only normalised in the last few months. Took a while!
Between the physical impact of covid on people’s brains and the mental impact of lockdown we are in for a rough ride.
Look at the people with the weak immune systems, point and laugh, especially at the asthmatics with their feeble lungs
It’s quite amazing how much publicity is devoted to ‘long covid’ despite a lack of a definitive test to prove its existence.
Compare that to the decades of neglect and gaslighting of those unfortunate enough to have got Lyme Disease and did not recover as promptly as the NHS thought they should.
When I got Covid I barely had symptoms. One day of a sore throat.
But playing football since? Fuck me is my breathing a bit fucked.
>self-reported
Right.
>A total of 398,000 – one in five – say their ability to undertake day-to-day activities has been “limited a lot”, the ONS found.
Strange how you have to read a bit down to get to this bit. I’m sure though the usual /r/uk people will be predicting the coming “Long Covid” zombie apocalypse. Just like Covid one we never had.
I know a few people in my circle suffering from long term ailments. FYI, a continued issue with taste and smell is very likely associated with reduced brain matter in the region responsible for handling taste and smell. If you know anyone in this situation get them on smell and taste training to rebuild the matter.
Its an unknown virus. We dont know half of what its done to any of us who have caught it, or whats its capable of.
Dont wait for the govrnment to tell you to wash your hands. Perhaps consider wearing your mask still.
Long Covid is what scares me. I don’t fear dying or being hospitalised, as that’s extremely unlikely given I’m triple-vaxxed and still quite young. But Long Covid has a real possibility of affecting me, and could last for months, possibly even years.
That’s why I continue to wear an N95 in certain settings, and take a lateral flow before meeting family. I’ve yet to catch the virus (although I may have been asymptomatic without knowing it). Covid is less dangerous now, sure, and we don’t have to lockdown anymore, but we still need to be careful.
And they have assessed just 5818 for treatment in their specialist clinics. The last figure we got out of the NHS was they had diagnosed just 28k people with it in total. The gap between the problem and recognition of it in the NHS is vast. They have a history of dismissal of post viral conditions, they only stopped torturing ME/CFS patients November last year in the official guidelines although so far almost all the clinics have refused to implement the new guidelines so the torture has continued.
I suspect most long haulers when treatment options arrive will need to travel abroad or pay privately to get treated due to the widespread systemic prejudice in the NHS.
Omicron has basically produced 100-200k new sufferers a month since January, its really quite impressive what letting Covid run did to the disability count in this country and it has exposed a lot of people to how the NHS treats post viral patients, with disdain, contempt and disbelief.
I know someone who is still suffering from it. Before he contracted it way back at the start of 2021, he was the kind of person that would cycle 5 miles to work, 15 miles on his lunch break, and 5 miles back home.
Nowadays he can barely climb the stairs without losing his breath.
Very sad – it’s totally wrecked him.
Girlfriend had Covid last year end of August. Her sense of smell has not fully recovered yet, sometimes to her benefit, but you know.
Amazing that its taken this long for the NHS to acknowledge symptoms consistent with CFS & ME, after dismissing them for decades as malingering.
Fuck the NHS.
Does certain food tasting different since catching COVID count? If so add me dairy tastes like cat piss now to me
More like lazy fucks using it as an excuse to remain off work.
Had it in December, still get chest pain if I breath in too deep or if anything presses on my chest. No previous history of lung problems or asthma. Hope it passes soon.
No long term physical ailments post-Covid but man I suspect the brain fog lasted at least a couple of months the first time for me.
Exactly 6 months later, I’ve contracted covid again. Identical symptoms. I just pray no for no long lasting brain fog.. .
Still dealing with PEM and heart issues among other things. Month 18, no end in sight.
It’s the perfect caper
‘Long covid’ LOL. People are just too dumb and brainwashed to admit that it’s the experimental gene therapy ‘vaccines’ that have fucked them up long term. Give it until the end of the decade and things will really start getting interesting as their immune systems practically fail.
This is very poor reporting (again) of the purpose of the ONS survey.
The survey is self-reporting, people who think that they have some long term effects of a historical covid infection. To give some context:
Many of these reports will be false correlations.
Some will have never had Covid.
30% report that their long covid symptoms don’t really impact their life.
50% say the symptoms they have aren’t significantly impactful.
The survey allows us to define what the symptoms of long covid might be so that we can conduct studies (not surveys) to determine what the real prevalence of long covid is. The last survey had one of the primary self reported symptoms as “anxiety”. Whether anxiety is a symptom of long covid or simply a normal response to living during a pandemic is a fair question to ask and demonstrates the difference between a survey and a study IMO.
The headline is unnecessarily inflammatory, about 400k people believe they have significant (undiagnosed) long term symptoms, substantially less actually will have.
This is a disease with unknown prognosis and no known treatments in the UK with a medical culture which does not particularly specialise in treating chronic conditions
Avoid like the plague
They misspelled lazy.
My wife has it, before she caught it she was super fit, could run 10k no problem, pretty much a full on hyperactive fitness freak.
Since she had it, she gets extremely tired from a casual 5 mile bike ride.
She is slowly getting better, but we went to a music festival at the weekend and once we came home she slept for a straight 13 hours and felt really ill the next day. She did have some drinks over the weekend but nothing extreme, no drugs etc.
It’s really shit.
Edit: ooof, a lot of tinfoil at the bottom of these comments…. sheesh!
Knowing there are Two million people in UK suffering from long COVID, what is it been done to help the Two million people????
Very much like the Tory MP’s with their second and third jobs lobbying for their cronies to get unusable PPE contracts and collect BROWN ENVELOPES at public expense.
Interesting to read people’s experiences and sorry to see that people are still suffering. I’ve been lucky so far (by lucky, I mean I live like it’s the summer of 2020 still).
Whats their definition though
Can this be proven in any way? These symptoms sound like everyone had a Long Covid for the last 30 years.
Yeah it’s a post viral syndrome, something long known to exist in medical circles and sars was known to be one of the viruses that can cause it..
I told so many anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers about this but the tories lead these people to their own suffering.. Atleast I didn’t take the bait. I hope many of you didn’t too.
I’m 18 months with long covid. It has been a nightmare. I was super fit before. For 6 months I couldn’t even walk round a small pond in my park, 12 months of rocking vertigo (feeling as if I was on a boat in rough seas) with overwhelming seasickness. Noise and light sensitive. Really bad cognitive dysfunction, like a dementia patient. I had to rehab as if I had a traumatic brain injury. Thankfully, I am coming through the other side now. Left with fatigue though. The fatigue isn’t like anything I had ever experience before and I’m a shift worker and deployed on operations with the military. The fatigue is debilitating. Long covid is a living nightmare.
Since I caught it a few months back, while the primary flu-like symptoms only lasted a week or so, it took two weeks to return a negative test result and since that time I have definitely noticed that it’s much easier to get out of breath and it doesn’t take much to trigger an occasional cough. It does seem to be improving very gradually, and I’m trying to help accelerate that via exercise, but it’s definitely not fun. This was with three jabs as well.
It is a very real disease that happens to be dominant among public sector workers. I imagine that they will have to work from home indefinitely.