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Long Covid – I have to choose between walking and talking
- yosito 5y agoMy girlfriend had COVID in September. We started hanging out in November. I noticed that she would often end her sentences in a whisper instead of fully voicing them. At first I thought it was some kind of weird tic, and I asked her why she was doing it. She explained that since COVID, she often can't finish her sentences without running out of breath. She also has frequent chest pain. She's terrified of Omicron, and I can't blame her.
- throwaway81523 5y agoYes that terror is apparently a known thing: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-patients-are-terrified-omicron-rcna9797 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-patien... I hope your gf gets better :(. People don't take covid anywhere near seriously enough.
- mort1merp0 5y agoIt is rather scary that Omicron is said to give mild cases, causing some I know to not really worry about it. It is sad that with so little known about Long Covid, the General Practitioners mentioned in the article are telling their patients that it's just anxiety and 'to go home and sort themselves out.' When the symptoms don't fit a known diagnosis, the default probably should not be 'it is all in your head'.
- nradov 5y agoWhat exactly do you think worrying about it will accomplish? It seems that "Long Covid" is mostly associated with patients' belief that they had the disease rather than actual infections. Many cases are psychosomatic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785832 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...