Tinnitus is attributed to long covid? Blimey, what a broad spectrum long covid seems to coverNow you know another one. I've had tinnitus since covid that's never fully gone away.
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Tinnitus is attributed to long covid? Blimey, what a broad spectrum long covid seems to cover
It can cause Tinnitus and even deafness (temporary or permanent) - unlike most common colds or flu which rarely infect beyond the respiratory tract (yeah things like viral gastroenteritis can happen but that is relatively rare and another story) COVID can infect cells over a much broader part of the body hence why COVID is considered a more serious disease and why even a certain amount of healthy people without pre-existing condition died due to COVID (currently just under 30K).
Third time I had COVID despite being a very mild dose I partially lost hearing in my right ear for ~2 months or so.
Commissario
Given that long covid is collection of symptoms that can be traced to a covid infection, and covid is known to have the potential to cause all sorts of damage as part of the infection, then yes it does cover a lot because if those symptoms haven't cleared up after X months it goes from the "normal" infection symptoms to being chronic symptoms (IIRC any condition can be classed as chronic once it's symptoms have been around for a certain period or time usually something like 3-6 months).Tinnitus is attributed to long covid? Blimey, what a broad spectrum long covid seems to cover
It's like people having little or no sense or taste or smell (one of the big signs of at least one covid variant*), or finding it takes them months to start to be able to maintain the same level of activity they had before covid.
[edit] as Rroff says Covid affects far more of the body than colds or the flu, and it's known to cause damage to various other organs, general blood vessels (a friend has a nasty rash where a load of small blood vessels in his leg seemed to burst during his covid infection a few months back), and even potentially the brain.
*There is a whole meme about the "Yankee candle test" where you can see if covid cases are increasing by watching the number of recent negative reviews on Amazon etc complaining the candles don't have a smell...
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Where did covid go? Did it just morph into long covid, tinnitus, aches and pains and the like?Given that long covid is collection of symptoms that can be traced to a covid infection, and covid is known to have the potential to cause all sorts of damage as part of the infection, then yes it does cover a lot because if those symptoms haven't cleared up after X months it goes from the "normal" infection symptoms to being chronic symptoms (IIRC any condition can be classed as chronic once it's symptoms have been around for a certain period or time usually something like 3-6 months).
It's like people having little or no sense or taste or smell (one of the big signs of at least one covid variant*), or finding it takes them months to start to be able to maintain the same level of activity they had before covid.
[edit] as Rroff says Covid affects far more of the body than colds or the flu, and it's known to cause damage to various other organs, general blood vessels (a friend has a nasty rash where a load of small blood vessels in his leg seemed to burst during his covid infection a few months back), and even potentially the brain.
*There is a whole meme about the "Yankee candle test" where you can see if covid cases are increasing by watching the number of recent negative reviews on Amazon etc complaining the candles don't have a smell...
COVID is still around, currently has decreased below "baseline" - what seems to have happened is the majority of people have built up enough immunity against existing strains of it to reduce the symptoms of a typical case to mild to very mild and many of those most vulnerable to the disease have either now died off or survived developing at least some level of immune system protection against it. If I have it right this is basically what happened with the Spanish Flu as well - lots of people died and the population was increasingly made up of people who had some resistance to it.
Even COVID with mild symptoms can do a lot of underlying damage though, which is a bit different to typical for other similar diseases, which is down to the way it can infect across a broader spectrum of the body.
Do you populate a broadsheet of every time you, a family member, a work colleague,a friend or someone you bump into walking the dog has a sniffle?
Your recollection is amazing. Fair play.
I tend to notice things like this.
I am mainly amazed, purely because after all this time, i still do not know anyone, nobody who has had covid. Nobody in my children school, nobody at work or in town or play.
But seriously, and with respect, your recollection is like Rainman.
Not these days it isn't - especially stuff a few years ago is getting fuzzy.
Soldato
Yeah in my case it infected my Eustachian tubes as the same day I got covid I was unable to pop my ears anymore and I started hearing a low rumbling in my left ear. Eventually when I could pop them again the rumbling remained. Oral steroids have taken the volume down a notch, but it seems there is persistent muscle spasm in my middle ear that continue to cause the rumbling noise, just at a lower volume than before.
About a year and a half in, just riding it out and hoping it eventually resolves itself. No other lasting effects bar that, which is annoying because the infection itself was mild as hell. Maybe I should just use nasal steroids into the affected Eustachian tube directly on a longer term basis and see what happens.
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IIRC you said the steroids cured it?
Soldato
Didn't 'cure' it, just reduced the volume of it to the point I barely noticed it anymore compared to my regular tinnitus - but it is unfortunately still there for now. Long covid can usually take 2+ years to resolve so I wait and see what happens.
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I see your posts and admired your recollection but i suppose time gains us all.
Two years on and my stomach/digestive system is still sensitive due to COVID (possibly some spike remnants or something causing minor inflammation), everything else seems to have largely gone away after 3 months max, though I still occasionally get bouts of fatigue - but fairly rare and less impactful now compared to immediately after having COVID.
So you had two simultaneous tinnutus's going on? The one you had and the one you got from covid? But somehow you could discern your regular tinnitus from the covid tinnitus. You halfway cured the covid tinnitus but are still inflicted with the regular tinnitus.
Is that right?
Soldato
My regular tinnitus is in my right ear and caused by my jaw - very high pitched noise, like an old tube TV whine from when you were a kid. The new tinnitus was a low pitched rumble from my left ear, so very immediately recognisable.
The regular tinnitus won't be cured unless I can do something about this jaw, unfortunately.
Do you know any boxers?
Soldato
One of the theories is that covid hides is in the gut bacteria.
Interestingly some people are doing those gut bacteria tests and finding one or more bacteria as totally gone. They are using probiotics to try and repopulate that area.
I know gradually over the 2 years since I got covid my digestion went downhill.
Soldato
Ah yeah, that's definitely long covid for you! I've got long covid as well, the main symptoms being my eyesight has deteriorated since 2020 and I've got a lot more grey hairs.