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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you explain my cardiac issues that are very clearly seen via MRI and echocardiogram? And no, they weren’t there previously. I am in my 30s, incredibly fit, was running 35-40 miles per week before I got sick (this was pre-vaccine; first wave). Literally couldn’t breathe even though my lung capacity is usually off the charts. I needed inhalers for the first time in my life and even those didn’t work super well. Ekg and blood work showed many abnormalities. I was declared disabled for 1.5 years because I had medical evidence of my persistent illness. These are all very objective measures. Nothing psychosomatic about it. [/quote]

I think what you are describing is quite different from “brain fog”, “fatigue”, “lingering cough” and supposed “shortness of breath”. [/quote]

I think it is important to sort out the above symptoms from physical conditions that occur as sequelae to Covid.  These can include heart, lung or kidney impairments that are measurable through standard tests. I believe the latter do not belong in the category of long covid.[/quote]

Yes but part of the point of this study is that it found that in this sample of people with mild Covid (non-hospitalized) they did not find evidence of heart, lung or kidney impairments. They only found the self-reported symptoms that are not linked to an identifiable chronic condition -- fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, lingering cough, anxiety, headaches, etc.

I think we need to entertain the possibility that for people who had mild Covid, there is perhaps an excessive tendency to ascribe any physical symptom in the subsequent months or years to Covid, but that these things might not actually have anything to do with having Covid. I think it's possible many of these symptoms are caused from the stress of having Covid or simply living through the pandemic, but that is different than saying Covid causes these symptoms. In which case, it's possible that what the media and some doctors refer to as "long Covid" might not actually be related to having Covid. Certainly this study indicates that might be the case.[/quote]

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