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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yup its the new fibromialga [/quote]

Ugh. My dh has new anxiety/panic after covid. He literally never had any anxiety history until he was sick with covid. I lost my taste and smell for 3 weeks. They came back, but I experience a phantom smell of sewage and burning rubber, intermittently. It has been 2 months since we were sick. I'm not thinking of it as "long covid", but, it's not nothing, ya know?[/quote]

The onset of his anxiety post Covid may just be a coincidence. There is no proof that the virus caused the anxiety. [/quote]

Not only is there no evidence Covid causes anxiety, this would be a strange and extremely novel issue to encounter with a respiratory virus. There are many causes of anxiety and certainly some of them are physiological -- many medications, for instance, can cause anxiety and/or paranoia. But I've never heard of a respiratory coronavirus resulting in this kind of outcome. It would be highly unusual and if people are really convinced this is happening, we should be looking closely at data in controlled studies, not just taking the testimony of random people (sorry PP).

I also think we should start considering the idea of secondary symptoms that are not caused by Covid but may be caused by the experience of having Covid. You see this in cancer patients sometimes. Cancer does not cause depression, but it's not uncommon for patients with cancer to develop depression because having cancer sucks. But it just gets treated as depression, not as some mysterious cancer symptom. If many people with mild Covid cases are later being diagnosed with anxiety, we might want to consider if the cause is not the Covid itself, but the anxiety-inducing circumstances of having Covid.[/quote]

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