Comments on: Long COVID is no different than long flu …

By: Bruce+Hayden.

Bruce+Hayden. — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:23:11 +0000

Well, the subject that Neo probably doesn’t want to hear about, but it appears, at least from some studies, that the rate of Long COVID-19 may be higher in the over Vaxed. We do know that Vaxing statistically appears to increase the frequency that you can get COVID-19. Fauci, for example, has caught it at least 5 times. Of course, he’s old, with a weaker immune system… The ModRNA vaccines often appear to exhaust immune systems (by expending their resources fighting the spike proteins produced by the ModRNA). So, increasing the frequency of Long COVID-19 with over Vaxing doesn’t appear to be an unreasonable hypothesis.

We shall see.

By: KyPerson

KyPerson — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:44:07 +0000

I had the Hong Kong flu in 1968 when I was in high school. After I got over the flu itself, I felt tired and dragged out for weeks. In 1998, I got the flu again and went through the same thing only the tired out achy feeling lasted for a couple of months. I have a friend who had COVID and it affected her badly and she still has residual effects. She also has asthma, diabetes and is obese. I wonder how many long COVID sufferers have co-morbidities?

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:32:27 +0000

When I was 17 I came down with a very bad case of chicken pox. It was during track season and I had almost no extraneous body fat, yet I still lost 10lbs. I was quarantined from school for two weeks, but once I was allowed back I went right back to running in meets. I managed to run similar times in my races, but it was an incredible struggle. Almost exactly one year later I was running and felt something I hadn’t felt in so long I nearly didn’t recognize it. Running felt effortless again.

It was then that I pieced together what had been going on. The chicken pox had taken so much out of me that it took a year for me to build back the muscle, lung capacity, red blood cells… that I had prior to the disease. No person looking at me would have thought anything was wrong, or that I was ill. I appeared to be a healthy teen who was competing fairly well. Nothing would have showed up on any diagnostic test or medical exam. But I had been feeling subpar for a year. I didn’t have “long chicken pox.” But the chicken pox had devastated me to an extent that it took me 12 months to get back to where I had been before the illness.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:24:59 +0000

IrishOtter49,

Anger and frustration are appropriate emotions after what you have been through.
God bless you!

By: Erasmus

Erasmus — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:29:42 +0000

IrishOtter: your co-morbidities (massive heart attack, damaged kidneys) make teasing out any “long covid” / post-viral syndrome diagnosis impossible.

Having said that, Godspeed with your recovery.

By: IrishOtter49

IrishOtter49 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:29:34 +0000

M J R and neo:

Thank you so much for your encouraging words!

By: J

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:25:27 +0000

Neo, thank you for bringing this up. When I was in college, in the winter I had the flu. In the spring I had mono. In the summer I had an autoimmune disorder. And in the late fall I finally started to feel like myself again. Viruses can indeed have long-term effects. Since antibiotics arrived on the scene, we’ve forgotten that infectious diseases can affect our health in the long term. Read classic novels to see that in the past people understood the need for convalescence and recovery time.

By: M J R

M J R — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:50:25 +0000

IrishOtter49 (7:51 pm) said: “COVID tried very hard to kill me and nearly succeeded.”

A very good friend of mine was very nearly done in by covid.
Otter, we’ve got your back here. You take care now, get well.

M J R

By: neo

neo — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:48:23 +0000

IrishOtter:

It might take a year or two, but as long as the basic trajectory is improvement that’s at least something.

As I said, a friend of mine nearly died – and I mean, came within a hair of death – from H1N1. She was only about 50 at the time but it took her at least a year to recover and maybe more. But she did ultimately recover. She couldn’t climb stairs or anything like that for a long time; all her hair fell out but then grew back, etc..

Sorry to hear it’s been such a struggle. Hope things improve more quickly for you.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:38:30 +0000

Its a nasty bug that daszak should be suffering mightily for creating