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The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid. Thats what scares me. When I got covid it were only 2-3 bad days and t

The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid. Thats what scares me. When I got covid it were only 2-3 bad days and the rest was like a normal flu but I noticed it took me roughly 3 more weeks to feel 100% like I did before, mostly fitness and stamina.

MisterBastahrd 3y ago
I've never recovered. I permanently lost the ability to taste certain things and can literally get 10 hours of sleep the night before and feel exhausted by noon. I look forward to people who pretend that it's the same as the flu catching it for themselves so that they can enjoy this "no big deal."
- Contusion3532 3y ago
  Sorry that you're suffering this way. It's infuriating to me that people downplay Covid infections when the risk of suffering from long Covid effects is very real.
- amkkma 3y ago
  Sorry. I have a brilliant, extremely driven friend who did undergrad at an ivy. After getting covid, She had to drop out of her grad school program and her new life is a shell compared to what it used to be like. 2 years later, and there's a tiny fraction of improvement which she attributes to extreme rest. I forward her literature about emerging LC treatments and mechanisms of which her physicians are laughably ignorant. It's a sad state of affairs.
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
> The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid. Where did you get 5%? Last I saw you have a 20% chance of long covid, but it seems that was with older variants. The thing that scares me is: > up to two years after infection, at an elevated risk for many long COVID-related conditions including diabetes, lung problems, fatigue, blood clots and disorders affecting the gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal systems. https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-covid-still-worrisome-2-years-after-infection/ https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-covid-still-worrisome-2...

MisterBastahrd 3y ago

I've never recovered. I permanently lost the ability to taste certain things and can literally get 10 hours of sleep the night before and feel exhausted by noon. I look forward to people who pretend that it's the same as the flu catching it for themselves so that they can enjoy this "no big deal."

Contusion3532 3y ago
Sorry that you're suffering this way. It's infuriating to me that people downplay Covid infections when the risk of suffering from long Covid effects is very real.
amkkma 3y ago
Sorry. I have a brilliant, extremely driven friend who did undergrad at an ivy. After getting covid, She had to drop out of her grad school program and her new life is a shell compared to what it used to be like. 2 years later, and there's a tiny fraction of improvement which she attributes to extreme rest. I forward her literature about emerging LC treatments and mechanisms of which her physicians are laughably ignorant. It's a sad state of affairs.

ParetoOptimal 3y ago

> The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid. Where did you get 5%? Last I saw you have a 20% chance of long covid, but it seems that was with older variants. The thing that scares me is: > up to two years after infection, at an elevated risk for many long COVID-related conditions including diabetes, lung problems, fatigue, blood clots and disorders affecting the gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal systems. https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-covid-still-worrisome-2-years-after-infection/ https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-covid-still-worrisome-2...