>The health and social care committee heard that developing a chronic condition by the time you reach 40 or 50 has been normalised for some people.
As long as people have physically demanding jobs it will remain. Propositions?
>”The idea that you work all your life and then you will spend the last years of your life in preventable disability and pain is something we have to shift,” said Prof Jim McManus from Public Health Wales.
>Nearly half the Welsh adult population has a chronic or long-term health condition, with 19% experiencing two or more.
>The health committee said the rising trend in the numbers of patients with one or more longstanding illnesses “poses a significant threat to the future sustainability of the health and care system in Wales”.
This is not really a surprise considering the lifestyles and jobs people have that do wreck havok on the body. By the time you get to your 40s and 50s the beginning of a long physical working life takes its toll. People also like to unwind after a physically taxing week. We’re not all pen pushers.
Heartbreaking to see people struggle through these conditions. My mam was hospitalised the day she got vaccinated at the beginning of the pandemic.
She’s had a slew of post vaccine issues from POTS, fainting, malaise, intense pain that have gone on for years. It’s not even been mentioned on her public medical records that they stem from this incident. She had to go private to rule things out like pancreatic cancer etc as that’s where most of the pain was and the inflammation markers showed up.
4 years later they’ve offered her CBT and physiotherapy. It’s not faulty thinking or sore muscles causing her symptoms. She’s simply one of the genetically unlucky few 1 in 2-3000 that can’t clear the viral material and has ongoing immune overactivation.
I didn’t get vaccine injured to that extent but within weeks of getting Covid had all sorts of weird issues and was previously very fit and healthy. The difference is I live in Hong Kong now and am lucky to have decent insurance. I’ve had several scans, tests etc. over the course of the years that have shown brain damage, reduced cardiac capacity (had a fitness package before so have a baseline), chronic venous oxygen insufficiency, ongoing lactic acidosis, anaemia, low IGF-1 and some other stuff.
While in both cases there is no cure for people that have post viral or vaccine conditions and clearly there’s a genetic component to it. But at least I have treatment such as anticoagulants, things to help bloodflow, supremes immune overactivity (baricitinib) and generally allow me to have a quality of life.
Many (especially older) people’s first instinct is to blame patients and say they made it up. I have way too much medical evidence for that to be the case. There is also way too much evidence about these conditions published in medical papers.
But was I or anyone else to get long covid (or other as of yet unsolved conditions) today, they would probably spend years being disbelieved, gaslit and offered physio before they got anywhere — especially if they were female.
Sad truth is there’s not even close to the amount of financial, personnel or resources or education available in the Welsh NHS.
Like the last time an illness threatened our NHS are they going to choreograph tik tok videos?
Doesn’t help that English retirees (with all manner of health issues) see Wales as a quaint little retirement village, putting a strain on our resources while contributing barely anything
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>The health and social care committee heard that developing a chronic condition by the time you reach 40 or 50 has been normalised for some people.
As long as people have physically demanding jobs it will remain. Propositions?
>”The idea that you work all your life and then you will spend the last years of your life in preventable disability and pain is something we have to shift,” said Prof Jim McManus from Public Health Wales.
>Nearly half the Welsh adult population has a chronic or long-term health condition, with 19% experiencing two or more.
>The health committee said the rising trend in the numbers of patients with one or more longstanding illnesses “poses a significant threat to the future sustainability of the health and care system in Wales”.
This is not really a surprise considering the lifestyles and jobs people have that do wreck havok on the body. By the time you get to your 40s and 50s the beginning of a long physical working life takes its toll. People also like to unwind after a physically taxing week. We’re not all pen pushers.
Heartbreaking to see people struggle through these conditions. My mam was hospitalised the day she got vaccinated at the beginning of the pandemic.
She’s had a slew of post vaccine issues from POTS, fainting, malaise, intense pain that have gone on for years. It’s not even been mentioned on her public medical records that they stem from this incident. She had to go private to rule things out like pancreatic cancer etc as that’s where most of the pain was and the inflammation markers showed up.
4 years later they’ve offered her CBT and physiotherapy. It’s not faulty thinking or sore muscles causing her symptoms. She’s simply one of the genetically unlucky few 1 in 2-3000 that can’t clear the viral material and has ongoing immune overactivation.
I didn’t get vaccine injured to that extent but within weeks of getting Covid had all sorts of weird issues and was previously very fit and healthy. The difference is I live in Hong Kong now and am lucky to have decent insurance. I’ve had several scans, tests etc. over the course of the years that have shown brain damage, reduced cardiac capacity (had a fitness package before so have a baseline), chronic venous oxygen insufficiency, ongoing lactic acidosis, anaemia, low IGF-1 and some other stuff.
While in both cases there is no cure for people that have post viral or vaccine conditions and clearly there’s a genetic component to it. But at least I have treatment such as anticoagulants, things to help bloodflow, supremes immune overactivity (baricitinib) and generally allow me to have a quality of life.
Many (especially older) people’s first instinct is to blame patients and say they made it up. I have way too much medical evidence for that to be the case. There is also way too much evidence about these conditions published in medical papers.
But was I or anyone else to get long covid (or other as of yet unsolved conditions) today, they would probably spend years being disbelieved, gaslit and offered physio before they got anywhere — especially if they were female.
Sad truth is there’s not even close to the amount of financial, personnel or resources or education available in the Welsh NHS.
Like the last time an illness threatened our NHS are they going to choreograph tik tok videos?
Doesn’t help that English retirees (with all manner of health issues) see Wales as a quaint little retirement village, putting a strain on our resources while contributing barely anything
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