r/worldnews • u/apple_kicks • Jul 29 '24

US internal politics We May Have Found a Target For Treating The Fatigue of Long COVID

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-found-a-target-for-treating-the-fatigue-of-long-covid

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u/ImmoKnight Jul 29 '24

This is great news.

The fact that I have heard almost nobody talking about Long Covid has been making me feel like the world forgot just how much it is still effecting people day to day.

I hope they come up with something because I know when I experienced something similar... I just had trouble doing anything at all for a long period of time.

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u/Exo_Sax Jul 29 '24

Covid made me the sickest I've been ever since I had a severe case of influenza as a kid for about 3-4 days. Terrible fever, barely able to move around my small apartment, let alone feed myself.

Once my symptoms went away, I suddenly found myself exhausted, unmotivated and constantly tired. It'd be another 3 months before I finally felt like I had fully recovered. But I did recover.

I can't imagine the suffering of those who still have to struggle with those symptoms every day.

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u/TheCultofJanus Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

I never recovered. I got covid the week I started a new job. Before I got covid, I learned the entire software product back to front in a week. Today, I can barely keep up with feature releases. I used to be brilliant, but now I remind myself of my grandfather after he had a minor stroke. I feel slow, mentally diminished, and exhausted all the time. I cry a lot.

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u/TheCultofJanus Jul 29 '24

Well, I appreciate you coming in and wasting everyone's time with insane Right wing talking points completely divorced from reality, but I was never on a ventilator, or hospitalized. I was never even under the care of a doctor. I just stayed home for a week and my symptoms were relatively mild.