Evidence Mounts That About 7% of US Adults Have Had Long COVID | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | JAMA | JAMA Network June 7, 2024 New data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component support prior findings that about 7% of US adults have had post–COVID-19 condition, also known as long COVID. The household survey of the US civilian noninstitutionalized population, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, found that an estimated 6.9% of adults—17.8 million—had ever had long COVID as of early 2023.
a decade or 2 from now, a new virus will emerge that puts Covid to shame and we’ll truly be fcked…Covid was just the warmup
Long COVID is not a disease -- it's a mental problem. There are a lot of psychologically unstable people who need some type of affliction in order to feel like they are a hero in the middle of some fabricated struggle. It's their only way to feel relevant. Most of these people are woefully out of shape and weak mentally. The overwhelming majority are liberal.
There are some cases where a Covid infection leads to actual long-lasting health problems. But in the vast majority of cases, the above is true.
That was already a condition called Hypochondria. It’s politically agnostic. If you want proof just walk around a Walmart for a day and listen to conversations. Now take that **** back to the basement, jackass. This is the Hangout.
There is a D&D Covid thread. This post belongs there. This thread is for awareness and for those who may be suffering from Long Covid (some ~20M according to this JAMA article) and want to talk about it here. Many suffer in silence. Please keep political content in the other thread.
I absolutely had issues for almost a year from my first bout of Covid in Feb 2022, fatigue and brain fog. It really sucked.
I would like to take a moment to recognize my 25 year long experience with long covid. Since contracting covid in '99, Ive had this insatiable desire to shitpost on a basketball forum. Thank you all for taking this moment to allow me to share my struggles and i would like to especially thank the OP for making this thread. It was very brave of you and I hope more people like me can express their struggles w/out fear and shame. I now feel like my disease can be added to the alphabet people.
Wow, what an a$$hole to all those suffering from long COVID. Take your politics to the other thread, and welcome to my ignore list.
Better now, but I run away from people with Covid. In hindsight it was an insidious thing. The first couple of months were the worst then I just sort of muscled through it and didn’t realize how bad it was. But looking back it was absolutely a rough time for over a year. The fatigue was better at first but I was just dumb for a while and couldn’t remember anything. I did get it again in December 2023 but it was relatively mild. Still, full recovery was about two months. I think a lot of people live in such an unhealthy state that it’s just another level of misery and numbness so they don’t even realize they have it. I’m pretty healthy so the impact is keener.
A coworker experienced super dry mouth during Covid (mild, with no other major symptoms), and afterward, she gets super dry mouth anytime she catches a normal cold; it could just be a coincidence, but it's a weird "lasting" symptom.
Yeah it's fake. And yet, looking at the graph and its pretty colors again... hmmm, wouldn't you know it, those same people that are at increased risk of suffering serious conditions when contracting Covid (you know, like death) are also much more likely to report having had long Covid. [
How am I not surprised there are those claiming it is just a mental problem or just wanting attention. I know someone who got COVID early on and if this was all in her head or just wanted a lot of attention her doctors disagree. She's spoken publicly about her issues so am linking to an article here that she and other long COVID sufferers spoke about her experience. https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-got-covid-one-year-ago-theyre-still-sick-11615838402
i've experienced similiar. something that came about when i got covid. it never really went away but wasn't sure if it was coincidence or simply the body getting older.
Ever since I had covid last time, it brought back asthma that I had not had in about 25-30 years. Right side of my sinus is harder to breath through pretty much at all times. My doctor told me that she's seen asthma develop for the first time in some people since having covid and just prescribed me Albuterol and strong nasal spray. I've recently started using a nebulizer on top of inhaler since it seems to work better. Im not using it everyday but a few times a week. I've basically just accepted this is new normal and go about my day but it does suck. I used to run a lot more but now just have to limit how long since it is harder to breath. It feels like running for the first time in a long time no matter how often I do it. My taste and smell are still somewhat messed up. The weirdest is bananas, oranges, cucumbers, and watermelon all taste rotten. Peanut butter and Doritos finally taste normal again. My smell has been getting better but stuff like deodorant and shampoo still smell a little rotten. The taste stuff is not that big of a deal but slightly annoying lol. Little did I know all of this was just my own mental creation ha.
About 3 months after I tested positive, I'm sitting around, and all of the sudden it feels like someone has a hand pressed in the middle of my chest. Weird to breathe, no pain, never felt anything like it before, I pop an aspirin (that's kind of my initial go-to whenever something goes sideways). Hour or so later I say it's not getting better or worse and I think I gotta go to the doctor, so we go. All blood tests, pressure, EKG, etc are perfectly fine. Doc says "we don't know". Thanks, doc. I'll still never have any idea what that was.
