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Yeah a relative of mine had it decades before Covid. A better term may be "Long Virus" since multiple viruses can trigger it, Covid just happens to be the most
by klipt 2y ago
Yeah a relative of mine had it decades before Covid.
A better term may be "Long Virus" since multiple viruses can trigger it, Covid just happens to be the most recent pandemic.
- saalweachter 2y agoEh, the advantage of "long Covid" is that syndromes are clusters of symptoms without a known underlying cause. "Long Covid" may give ME/CFS symptoms, but if you solicit 100 Long Covid sufferers for a study, you are more likely to be able to find underlying similarities than for 100 ME/CFS suffers. The results would potentially scale to some sunset of ME/CFS suffers neho never had Covid, but it makes sense to start with the group we at least have a common starting point on the cause.
- GuB-42 2y agoThat's what I am wondering, is it the right cluster? Some long covid symptoms are nothing like ME/CFS such as a persistant loss of taste and smell. And there are people with ME/CFS who never had covid. Anyways, I am sure that research goes both way, that is, studying the consequences of covid and the causes of ME/CFS. "meet in the middle" can be a good exploration strategy.
- chongli 2y agoThe symptoms may be very different but the causes may be similar: permanent damage to tissues and organs which the body is unable to heal over time.
- il-b 2y agoMono (Epstein–Barr) can as well cause prolonged (many months and even years) illness.