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First off: neither I, nor anyone on the internet, is going to diagnose your problem. That said, speculation (which is what is going on with this article, and w
by timr 6y ago
First off: neither I, nor anyone on the internet, is going to diagnose your problem.
That said, speculation (which is what is going on with this article, and what happens, wildly, on the subreddit you mention) is useless. People have been free-associating between symptom and disease on the internet since long before Covid, and the quality of the conversation hasn't improved in 2020. So it's one thing to choose to believe that a group of people are sincerely reporting symptoms they perceive to be true, and something very different to believe their attributions to cause. You can't do the latter based on stories from an internet forum.
Do you have the virus in your brain? It's unlikely, if only because you're not currently dead of viral meningitis. Moreover, fixation on one limited aspect of the immune response (IgG), ignores the fact that the brain has other immune responses. The immune response is far more sophisticated than IgG alone, and humans have been recovering from viral infections for a long time.
If you have tinnitus, it could be any number of different things, ranging from medication (common!) to hearing damage from loud noises (common!) to stress/tension (common!) to post-viral symptoms (rarely). A small percentage of people are reporting similar symptoms after Covid, but then, a very large percentage of people have Tinnitus, in general. It's like the old saying goes: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Point is: if you're worried about it, talk to your doctor, not to reddit.
- raducu 6y agoI was checked by an ENT doctor and I'm keeping in touch with her. She told me she had a patient who went completely deaf after COVID and others complaining about tinnitus and that she's seen this before with other viral infections. Yet there were no article "First romanian man goes deaf after COVID-19" (and people replying "shuuut up, its just one guy, this is circumstantial"). -- my point being, given the chances I heard of the only man going deaf being minuscule, the most likely explanation is there must be(many) others -- but given the current focus, lack of treatment and difficulty in linking the covid with ear problems, there is limited research going on.
- loopz 6y agoThere could also be no correlation, or otherwise. Humans often associate too much and too little.
- timr 6y ago"my point being, given the chances I heard of the only man going deaf being minuscule, the most likely explanation is there must be(many) others -- but given the current focus, lack of treatment and difficulty in linking the covid with ear problems, there is limited research going on." It's not that there isn't research going on -- it's that good research takes time, and since people aren't willing to wait for that, they're substituting rumor and speculation and treating it as fact. Medical doctors are humans who tend not to be trained in statistics, and therefore often fall victim to the same sorts of logical fallacies that affect everyone else. But at least they see a lot more patients and have a lot more experience seeing diseases in the wild, which can at least temper their intuition for risk.