I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

[douglas9]

For more than three years, I’ve lived with long COVID.

The dizziness never leaves. I can’t drive more than half an hour without starting to get nauseous. Any strenuous activity — mental or physical — leaves me with post-exertional malaise that feels like a hangover the next day. I’ve learned to adapt and find gratitude for many things, but life remains an exhausting calculus of rationing energy across work, chores, and my kids.

I am only one of over an estimated 20 million Americans with long COVID. Symptoms for “long haulers” range from brain fog and fatigue to joint pain, heart palpitations, dizziness, loss of taste or smell, and many others. Many live with chronic disability, forced out of jobs and daily routines.

https://truthout.org/articles/i-am-one-of-20-million-in-us-with-long-covid-rfk-pulled-the-rug-from-under-us/

[Irish_Dem]

1. I still have problems related to having Covid one year ago.

One problem is that I suddenly developed very high cholesterol when my cholesterol has always been very low, in the one percentile range. Now I am up in the 99% range.
And I don't eat fat and I walk 4 miles a day.

I also still have cognitive slippage as well.

[markodochartaigh]

2. I have been vaxxed and boosted from

as soon as the vaccines were available, and with Asperger's social distancing is my superpower. But here in Southwest Florida the lack of empathy which is inherent in maga is rampant. I was keeping track of my exposure time and I contracted covid in a trip to Publix which lasted less than a half hour. Covid almost killed me. It took three months before I could sit up in the chair at the computer for more than a couple of hours at a time. Thankfully my senses of taste and smell returned at least 90%. But after the first three months I realized that I wasn't getting better.

Now, after two years, if I walk for an hour in my garden or at the store I'm still exhausted the next day. I've heard doctors who specialize in long covid say that your brain can age by a decade, and I certainly feel it.

I was in pretty good shape for my age but I think that long covid has taken at least a decade off of my life. All because much of the general public here are too stupid and selfish to take obvious precautions.

I'm taking vitamin d and, on my days out zinc. I've also started azelastine nasal spray on my days out. And I'm able to severely control my public exposure, being retired. Still, I live with the fear that one more random bout of covid will be the end of me. Good luck to us all.

[Ray Bruns]

3. What you people need is another tax cut for billionaires and corporations.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Well, only if you have to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to pay for it. nt

[Ray Bruns]

6. Consider it done! Oh yea, Argentina needs $20 billion dollars for some fucking reason.

So I guess those healthcare cuts are going to be deeper than I thought.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i still wear mask in public.