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Would it be possible that something else caused it, leading you to also have a more severe episode of COVID? Perhaps you had a preexisting undiagnosed immune di
by bouncycastle 3y ago
Would it be possible that something else caused it, leading you to also have a more severe episode of COVID? Perhaps you had a preexisting undiagnosed immune disorder, which expressed itself during the COVID episode?
- ratg13 3y agoOne of the main theories is that the Covid is hiding in areas of the body, and this of course will mess with your other immune responses. I experienced something similar to OP. Took me around 12-18 months before I felt like the symptoms were abating.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoPerhaps, there is a running theory that Covid activates latent Epstein-Barr Virus among other things. But as far as I know it’s just a glorified hypothesis with little scientific evidence to support it. I wouldn’t even classify the actual covid episode I had as severe (and indeed, as far as I could tell from reading reports there doesn’t seem to be strong correlation between severity of illness and whether someone gets long covid or for how long). It was not bad enough to go to the hospital (though I did consider doing so a couple of times). I don’t really get allergies or otherwise and consider myself to have a pretty normal immune system. I get sick at about the same rate as what you would expect a normal person to get sick. My health simply took a v shaped nosedive on a graph for 6 months after I got covid.