What’s your long COVID story?

[Anonymous]

Got Covid in May 2022. Long Covid is mostly gone, with a few lingering effects. I worked with a physical therapist and a doctor at DC Integrative Medicine and they both were very helpful. I had severe fatigue and also a lot of gastro issues. The physical therapist taught me how to manage my energy and the integrative medicine doctor did a lot to help my stomach. Between the two I slowly built my energy back up and physically am mostly back to where I was. The brain fog also hugely improved and while I’m not quite as sharp as I was, it’s not noticeable to anyone but me, really. Wishing you the best of luck. For me the 9 month mark was a big turnaround.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

How many of those other conditions are strongly associated with pre-existing anxiety?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one likely wants to hear this, but my elderly mom died from long covid complications. She got a very ill from Covid in December 2023 and while she physically recovered from upper respiratory and fever symptoms within 2 weeks, her mental health took a downward spiral. She died January 2024.

Did she take her life? I’m so sorry.

PP and no, but Covid nearly activated all of her latent health issues; she had been widowed for a decade and loved living alone; suddenly she was frightened and anxious and needed someone with her at all times. Had to get on SSRIs and then had adverse effects from new meds-became manic and disoriented. Ushered in an era of hospitalizations and moved into a nursing home. Significant cognitive decline. Died quite suddenly of a heart attack.

Sounds like she wasn't long for this world with or without covid.

Ok, but why would you say that?

Because the pp previously said she died as a result of covid. Upon providing further details, that is almost certainly false. This is true with a large number of deaths attributed to covid.

Good point.

And I'd add that actually the PP said her mother died of long covid (the topic of this thread), which she most certainly did not. She said her mother contracted covid in December of 2023 and passed away in January of 2024 -- that means that her mother did not have long covid. WHO says you need to suffer symptoms a minimum of 3 months after the onset of Covid to be diagnosed with long covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

Oh honey, this "study" is going to be whiter than a Trump rally.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

These are two different posters. I am the second poster who noted that long covid skews toward women because that is very clear in numerous surveys/reports. I don't remember the racial/ethnic data in those studies so I did not comment on that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

These are two different posters. I am the second poster who noted that long covid skews toward women because that is very clear in numerous surveys/reports. I don't remember the racial/ethnic data in those studies so I did not comment on that.

PP again. One source is the CDC's Pulse survey. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm It asks if respondents have ever had long covid. 21% of females said yes, 14% for men. So strong skewing toward women.
It also has racial/ethnic breakdowns. Same question: Asian 12%, Black 13%, White 18%, Hispanic 21%. However, if you look at numbers of people rather than shares, the number of people with long covid are predominantly white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

This study shows the difficulty of getting reliable estimates of long covid. Of the respondents who tested NEGATIVE for covid, nearly a quarter nonetheless reported having at least one long covid symptom. When long covid symptoms include fatigue and trouble sleeping (as they did in this study), many people (with and without covid) report these symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

This study shows the difficulty of getting reliable estimates of long covid. Of the respondents who tested NEGATIVE for covid, nearly a quarter nonetheless reported having at least one long covid symptom. When long covid symptoms include fatigue and trouble sleeping (as they did in this study), many people (with and without covid) report these symptoms.

Why should you have had to have covid to have long covid? Where's your imagination?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

Oh honey, this "study" is going to be whiter than a Trump rally.

Look, it's the term-of-endearment poster dripping with stupidity as they try to sound clever. When will she go away? Never. When will she stop it with this "sweetie" and "honey" stuff even though it makes her sound old and cognitively challenged and bitter and ugly? Never -- she will sit there typing away in her Talbot's clothes with her thinning hair and lack of any real human contact typing away condescension and ignorance forever.

So I won't say "go away" because she won't, lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

Oh honey, this "study" is going to be whiter than a Trump rally.

Look, it's the term-of-endearment poster dripping with stupidity as they try to sound clever. When will she go away? Never. When will she stop it with this "sweetie" and "honey" stuff even though it makes her sound old and cognitively challenged and bitter and ugly? Never -- she will sit there typing away in her Talbot's clothes with her thinning hair and lack of any real human contact typing away condescension and ignorance forever.

So I won't say "go away" because she won't, lol.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of their cats this morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

Let's assume that's true. Lots of things occur more frequently in women. Historically that's been treated as justification for minimizing and mocking those conditions. Is that your argument here?

Fascinating that you have nothing to say about being wrong about the whiteness angle BTW. Doesn't bode well for your answer to the question above.

Oh honey, this "study" is going to be whiter than a Trump rally.

Look, it's the term-of-endearment poster dripping with stupidity as they try to sound clever. When will she go away? Never. When will she stop it with this "sweetie" and "honey" stuff even though it makes her sound old and cognitively challenged and bitter and ugly? Never -- she will sit there typing away in her Talbot's clothes with her thinning hair and lack of any real human contact typing away condescension and ignorance forever.

So I won't say "go away" because she won't, lol.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of their cats this morning.

Look, a cat reference intended to be nasty. More of what passes for wit from the Talbot's with thinning hair and an IQ at the leftish top 'o the bell crowd...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

So does autoimmune disorders. What’s your point?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

So does autoimmune disorders. What’s your point?

That most are blown way out of proportion.

Oh, THERE we go.

Bye.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is running a LISTEN study for people with long covid and post-vaccine syndrome. (Both conditions have similar symptoms.) Unclear if you have to be local to participate or not.
https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/

No, but you do have to be a middle-class white woman.

Studies say no. The highest rates of post-COVID symptoms are among Latinos, and among persons who are not Latino but are also neither white nor Black. "Results from this study are consistent with U.S Census Bureau estimates of PCC by race/ethnicity, which showed that 18% of Hispanic or Latino respondents and 19% of non-Hispanic other races reported Long COVID (defined as symptoms lasting 3 or more months) compared with 14% of non-Hispanic White and 12% of non-Hispanic Black respondents."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869300/#:~:text=Results%20from%20this%20study%20are,and%2012%25%20of%20non%2DHispanic

Data shows that long covid occurs more frequently in women.

So does autoimmune disorders. What’s your point?

That most are blown way out of proportion.

Oh, THERE we go.

Bye.

Just like that!