The most annoying part of this is that some of the people who caught Sars1 had similar issues.
The lab scientists know the mechanisms covid is using and the differences in why some people recover while others struggle
Ok, I'll accept that covid isn't the only one to have systemic organ damage. I think because covid spreads more than flu it's become a bigger issue.
I want there to be a solution to all these problems.
There is an incentive to play this down by governments because they don't want to pay money to sort out the problems.
I was a skeptic of covid at the start, and I'd never heard of people not recovering until I wasn't recovering. I think people say long covid and not covid is because my covid was mild. Yes I needed oxygen for 2 days. But when I came home at the 2 weeks mark I started to get symptoms I didn't have before. Heart rate, blood pressure, blood circulation issues, breathing became worse. I didn't have those symptoms to that severity until after covid.
Whether people want think covid or long covid isn't bad is immaterial. The virus is going to keep causing damage. I think until someone has it or knows someone who has it then I can understand being skeptical. I had never heard of so many people having lasting symptoms before. I thought if covid didn't kill us then we'd recover.
In my own situation when I had pneumonia about 5 years ago and was in hospital for 2 weeks with breathing problems. Once I had the medication after about 4 days my oxygen levels returned to normal.
When I first got covid in December 2020 I had minor oxygen issues and felt light headed at night. But after 5 days I recovered.
The second time I got covid was in July 2022. That lasted for about 4 months. My oxygen was dipping. But I was still managing to move around.
I'd just recovered from that bout only to get it again in December 2023. Oxygen levels down to 70%. Was in hospital and they put me in paxlovid. I came off the oxygen after 2 days. But every time I move around my oxygen drops back in the 70s. If I stay still it'll creep back into the 90s.
It's now been over a year and I still have the oxygen problem (and a high heart rate too). The weird thing is even when I use supplemental oxygen if I move I still go down to the 70s. It just brings me back up quicker.
So far my covid doctor is a joke. Wasn't interested in listening to the symptoms during the first appointment, and isn't engaged at all.
We maybe as well have AI because most doctors are acting like computers. All they are bothered about is reading a chart. If it says there is no problem they give up, even when they can see the person is ill.
No one takes 'long covid' seriously - so adding it in with the long term effects of other viriuses and calling it something different is likely to be helpful.
