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Your wife is correct to be angry. I can relate to your comment - my gf is likewise suffering from long COVID. I can also totally understand why a neurologist
by goodmachine 5y ago
Your wife is correct to be angry. I can relate to your comment - my gf is likewise suffering from long COVID.
I can also totally understand why a neurologist would suggest CBT, because as you say, they find nothing, and thus have nothing else to offer.
But it's clearly not just psychosomatic, so think-yourself-better like CBT can hurt and will hurt, because it won't work.
Current thinking - among numerous researchers (and fwiw, her specialist) - is that endothelial damage is causing long covid symptoms. There is some progress towards identifying the cause, if not the treatment, yet.
Hope that helps some.
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