Some Covid-19 survivors face long-term complications

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Lung scarring, heart damage, and anxiety

At first, Lauren Nichols tried to explain away her symptoms. In early March, the healthy 32-year-old felt an intense burning sensation, like acid reflux, when she breathed. Embarrassed, she didn’t initially seek medical care. When her shortness of breath kept getting worse, her doctor tested her for Covid-19.

Her results came back positive. But for Nichols, that was just the beginning. Over the next eight weeks, she developed wide and varied symptoms, including extreme and chronic fatigue, diarrhea, nausea, tremors, headaches, difficulty concentrating, and short-term memory loss.

“The guidelines that were provided by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] were not appropriately capturing the symptoms that I was experiencing, which in turn meant that the medical community was unable to ‘validate’ my symptoms,” she says. “This became a vicious cycle of doubt, confusion, and loneliness.”

Somewhere between 5 percent and 80 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 may be asymptomatic, or only develop symptoms days or even weeks after their test, and many of these people will have a mild form of the illness with no long-lasting symptoms. But Nichols is one of many Covid-19 patients who are finding their recovery takes far longer than the two weeks the World Health Organization says people with mild cases can expect. (The WHO says those with severe or critical cases can expect three to six weeks of recovery.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/lung-scarring-heart-damage-and-anxiety-some-covid-19-survivors-face-long-term-complications/ar-BB13O49f?ocid=msn360

[Iliyah]

1. Yes they do . .

COVID-19 attacks major organs and veins. Pre-exiting conditions which the republicans want health insurance to disregard, i.e. destroy what is remaining from ACA.

[agingdem]

2. septic shock

I had it in October...all those symptoms and more...blood red rash on my arms and legs, hallucinations, severe esphagitis so bad that I had difficulty breathing, plummeting glucose level, 102 degree temp one minute dropping to 94 degrees the next, no sense of taste or smell...appetite non extistent ...hospitalized for days.....IV drip with serious antibiotics with awful side effects...doctors asked my children if I had a DNR (I do) and to prepare themselves...I guess I'm just too mean to die but it took me weeks at home to recover...and I have what I call residual unrelenting traveling pain in my jaws, neck, back and chest..lovely stuff..so..I've had it with staying in place...I'm going out into this world even if I have to wear a hazmat suit...

[underpants]

3. There it is. Lung damage.

One study from China found that this ground glass appearance showed up in scans of 77 percent of Covid-19 patients. In another study out of China, published in Radiology, 66 out of 70 hospitalized patients had some amount of lung damage in CT scans, and more than half had the kind of lesions that are likely to develop into scars. (A third study from China suggests this is not just for critically ill patients; its authors found that of 58 asymptomatic patients, 95 percent also had evidence of these ground glass opacities in their lungs. More than a quarter of these individuals went on to develop symptoms within a few days.)

[SheltieLover]

5. This!👆

And they are going to open schools in the fall? 😳🤯

[Celerity]

4. Somewhere between 5% and 80% percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 may be asymptomatic

given that they are talking about people WHO TESTED POSITIVE, that is a ridiculously wide spread and is based off old data and small samples


surely they have now gotten a better grip on this statiscally

[saidsimplesimon]

6. There are worse fates than death.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Yeah, such as living under the rule of the Gruesome Oligarch Party.