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You’re getting to my point. There are a whole host of symptoms that can be triggered for numerous reasons and the interplays are tremendously complex. It demand
by fny 4y ago
You’re getting to my point. There are a whole host of symptoms that can be triggered for numerous reasons and the interplays are tremendously complex. It demands intervention but if we keep discussing this as COVID-specific symptomology the underlying condition may remain unexplored and untreated.
What’s especially frustrating to me is that the definitions for long COVID are so broad and the cohorts used for these studies are so varied that they don’t explain at all the experience of long COVID as discussed in the blog post above or the stories in the comments. Given the seeming irrelevance of the research, I can’t imagine these people will ever find relief unless they break out of a COVID centric mindset and seek other therapies.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoIt seems complex but it boils down to the same things; the major discriminating symptom should be Post-exertional malaise (PEM) which is a sign of immune dysfunction. It’s common to ME/CFS and Long Covid. Everything else is just jumping on a bandwagon. The only real difference I’ve seen long covid has to ME/CFS is some additional tissue damage. The problem is that ME/CFS is very difficult to treat and doctors typically have no clue, so what hope do patients have.