I got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage

[BigmanPigman]

By Richard Quest, Business editor-at-large, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html

"The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back."

"Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19.
I got infected back in mid-April.
I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. If I reach for a glass, or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture. It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn't working.
At times there's a sense of mild confusion. The micro delay in a thought, the hesitation with a word. Nobody would notice but me.
My digestive system is peculiar, to say the least.
It doesn't matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage -- my body doesn't feel quite right.
The cough has been with me for days, I have been tired and needed to take naps. I tripped over the camera tripod then fell over a chair! I am concerned but not panicked, yet."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is scary stuff. Thanks for the link and the heads-up. n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. I just saw him on CNN and it scared me (a lot).

[safeinOhio]

3. Sounds a speeding up of old age.

I’ve have most of those symptoms and they have developed after 60. Slowly over time.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Covid shortens life spans too.

[safeinOhio]

7. Sounds like it.

[BigmanPigman]

10. It does... 10 or more years studies say...

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25448/20200424/covid-19-patients-losing-13-years-lives-average-study.htm

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/497097-those-who-died-from-covid-19-lost-more-than-a-decade-of

[Steelrolled]

16. These are studies of people who have died of COVID-19

and are saying they did about 10-15 years earlier than would otherwise be expected, based on their current health. Which is another way of saying that most of the people who died were not young.

[KT2000]

5. Yes - my doctor told me to expect

there will be a lot of people experiencing post-virus issues. They will be put in the same category, medically speaking, as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, etc. I asked if Covid group group will be marginalized like the other conditions, and he said that remains to be seen. I have a hard time believing the "it's all in your head, psychological" explanation will fly much longer.

[BigmanPigman]

6. It causes neurological and vascular damage...

but is it permanent? No one knows at this point...

[safeinOhio]

9. So much for Medicare for all.

Looks more like Medicaid for all.

[KT2000]

11. Well, my response to him was

"Everything is going to shit isn't it." He nodded slightly.

[Duppers]

14. All of this reminds me of my CFS/ME symptoms

My CFS began decades ago after my "recovery" from an unknown viral infection.

The internal med specialist I saw at the time said I seemed to have contracted a malaria type of illness - this was in the 70s.

He was the one doc at that time who refused to go to the "it's all in your head" excuse. I was grateful. Since then, I've found a few docs who accept the facts of my illness and thankfully, although untreatable, my symptoms have lessened over the decades.

[KT2000]

15. Yes - that is exactly

what he was saying. If this does come to pass I sure hope that marginalization by the medical mainstream ends.

[niyad]

8. But. but. . .dr. Death told us that 99% of cases were perfectly harmless!!

[underpants]

12. I had no idea. It must affect the brain. I didn't know that.

Good article

[BigmanPigman]

13. Definitely neurological damage...

Don't know if permanent (that's scary).