I wish people cared about dealing with covid still. Once corporate America got that sign off not to care there was no going back.
Seriously. I spent 2 days in the hospital last week with bilateral pulmonary embolisms after having COVID the middle of last month. I was NOT otherwise at risk for clots. A terrible surprise that I’ll no doubt be recovering from for some time. I’m on a blood thinner for 6 months.
Fixed your ED at least 😊👍🏻
great.
remember when all the politicians and people who control things got covid?
What a totally normal and cool planet this is.
They were already shitheads.
A bull in a porcelain shop is not gonna do much damage if the shop is next to empty.
If it makes you feel any better, those demographics were already suffering from lead gas exposure.
As someone with long COVID, I can vouch the debilitating mental effects. I was teaching math to 4th through 8th grade students when I got it. I can remember standing in a classroom talking about a lesson and just having my mind go blank in mid sentence. I couldn’t function. Not knowing what I was talking about or even where I was. Thankfully the students where very understanding and someone would finish my point I was making. I still suffer from it yet today, nearly 2 years later.
I have respiratory issues despite every CT scan showing nothing more than a couple of small pneumonia scars form long ago. I should be able to breathe just fine with no reduction of lung capacity. It stems from a lack coordination with my diaphragm - It runs backwards when I exert myself causing shortness of breath. Another sign of probable brain injury. And despite using a therapy tool to try and fix the issue, at best it just helps a little.
The upshot is I have pretty much stopped doing a lot of things I used to do because of the difficulties breathing and I spend a lot more time away from people due to an unreasonable fear of COVID.
It has caused me to retire earlier than I wanted to. And my life has greatly changed - and not for the better either.
Sorry you’re going through all of that. There obviously aren’t any long term studies on it yet, but hopefully things will improve more and more over time.
According to my Pulmonolgist - Nope. Her observations of all her patients over the years is that if you don’t get over it in about a year, you don’t get better. And she has been seeing more COVID patients than her “normal” patients for several years now. Long term care is going to be a real problem for society going forward.
I mean this in the kindest way possible, but have you tried both mental and physical therapy?
First, thank you for your concern. You are a good person and a credit to yourself.
I suppose mental therapy might be a path I could follow. But it’s more a concern of getting COVID yet again and I’m old and in the high risk age group. And despite being vaccinated and getting boosters as needed, there is frankly no guarantee I won’t get it again. It’s not that I shun contact and interaction with others, I certainly don’t. But minimizing contact with crowds is medically a good thing for me. And messing around in a town/city a lot is asking for trouble. I’m close enough to the end of life that I don’t need the extra help in getting there - it’s coming soon enough as is.
I did do therapy with a Speech Therapist, it’s where I got the breathing device. They are oddly well qualified for issues like mine. But, evidently COVID can create a short circuit in the brain that physical therapy can help some but really can’t fix according to my Pulminologist and the Speech therapist. And as far as just getting plain exercise goes, I live in a very rural part of a very large forest. And between daily chores, I spend copious amounts of time in that forest foraging until the snow flies and at this time of the year hunting. In fact, if it stops misting and the fog lifts this afternoon, I will be out with a dog doing some grouse hunting chasing after supper. I don’t quit because of limitations. Quitting brings on death much faster. And I’ve seen that enough during my many years as a medic.
I hate the changes that COVID has forced upon me. But I acknowledge it’s existence and I’m fighting it as hard as I can.
*a reasonable caution of encountering people with an unreasonable response to covid
What turns regular COVID into long COVID? When I got COVID I was better after 2 weeks but I had a nagging cough and chest discomfort for 2 months
It’s very subjective. You can read more about it by searching around, but the prevailing definition means people who had more severe reactions to the infection than the average patient, which almost unanimously means a severe and prolonged inflammatory response.
What they are finding more and more is that this specific virus triggers undiagnosed or dormant autoimmune responses in patients. If you’re familiar with Rheumatism at all, imagine a massive reaction to, say, twisting your ankle, but it goes out of control and causes swelling all over your body including your brain, lungs, heart, and renal system. This is actually what killed the most patients pre-vaccination.
The full body assault of an inflammatory response just makes the body unable to cope, and things start shutting down. It can kill children and older people very easily if you can’t get it under control. Many succumbed to Pneumonia, but those that lived had damage to their major internal organs from the inflammatory response. You can also see some had been using the term “Walking COVID”, meaning people who had cleared the infection, but had long term sustained symptoms similar to Emphysema. They’ve since just moved on to calling everything “Long COVID”. Some people recover, some people don’t.
This study finally identified the specific damage and detection to brain activity.
People don’t get it. The inflammatory process can do these sort of thing to any organ or system, or parts of them.
People got a thing called COVID Toe. This is where you and every person already has some fungus that live on their feet and which gets into the skin and toenails. Maybe you have a little yellowing of the toenails or you’re just “prone to athletes foot.”
Then you get COVID and suddenly your immune system is working overtime. The fungus starts to multiply faster and spreads more aggressively. Your toes start to get itchy and red, more than usual. They swell. They yellow. Then they start to crack and ooze, possibly requiring surgical debridement or in the most severe cases, such as where the patient already had diabetes affecting their peripheral nerves, amputation of the foot to prevent necrosis and sepsis. Imagine dying from athletes foot because your immune system was overwhelmed fighting a coronavirus.
Interesting. I had an increase in fungal presence, but I figured it was excessive boot usage due to starting motorcycle riding 5 months after my first covid infection. It clear near winter for the most part but I wonder if I just hadn’t noticed the initial spread.
Very possible. There was a group of podiatrists who wanted to add athletes foot as a primary symptom of COVID. I can’t seem to find their letter right now. Google really sucks these days.
It’s a serious virus. People don’t realize. Just because most people fight it off like a flu doesn’t mean is was as easy on your body for it to do so. Imagine if we had a president that didn’t treat it as a joke. Might be a few million people still alive.
Is it this one? https://jfootankleres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13047-020-00425-9
I’ve been using duck duck go these days
Nah, it was a letter signed by a bunch of doctors to some medical society or another.
Diana from YT Physics Girl has long COVID. Her very loving husband takes care of her. We all wish them the best and any kind of recovery.
All those people who refused to take COVID seriously have a lot of blood on their hands.
So what I’m hearing you say is we should ignore it and act like all the people who correctly point out how dumb we’re being are assholes.
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Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.
Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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In living brains of those with long COVID, however, conventional MRI studies have shown no structural abnormalities in the brainstem.
Do these people not proof-read their own articles?
Normal hospital-type MRI scanners can’t see inside the brain with the kind of chemical and physical detail we need. But with 7T (7 Tesla) scanners, we can now measure these details
Not the best article, but I think what they are trying to say over multiple paragraphs is that new higher resolution MRI machines can see the damage that normal lower resolution MRI can’t see
what type of abnormalities are they seeing specifically?
Dude read the rest of the article
I have to choose what to spend my time on. If an article contradicts itself that obviously after I spent 2-5 minutes reading, I’ll go look for more intelligent texts.
It’s not contradicting itself though. Your first quoted statement says “using high-resolution scanners”. The last one says “conventional MRI studies”. The methodology is what is different.
Let me break it down so you see the point I was making - in case the bold wasn’t enough:
Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19. Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Here, they refer to people recovering from COVID-19, thus clearly indicate that patients are alive.
[…] In living brains of those with long COVID, however, conventional MRI studies have shown no structural abnormalities in the brainstem.
This paragraph immediately follows one that talks about autopsy(!) results, and here, they start a sentence with “in living brains […], however”, setting the sentence up as a contradiction to the previous one, with an emphasis on the word living in the article itself.
Here’s an example how the sentence should be written to not seemingly cause a contradiction / misdirect the reader:
However, previous studies conducted with conventional MRI had shown no structural abnormalities in the brainstem in living brains.
They put emphasis on the change in observation from autopsy to living brains, linking this paragraph more strongly to the preceeding one, when they should have put emphasis on the conventional studies, building the context for the subsequent paragraph.
I don’t really understand what the difference between the fixed and og version is.
The fixed version is slightly is better, I agree, but I wouldn’t call it a necessary fix.
You are judging a field specialist(s) on basically their communication skills. We can’t all structure sentences well, brainholes work differently, wording thoughts is hard.
It’s a bit like bitching how a perfectly working shovel isn’t ornate enough since if it was it would have been more pleasant to work with - it’s prob true but it’s such a low gain ‘nice-to-have’ feature people generally don’t bother with it.
Imho narratives need to be pleasant and/or artistic, eg I expect a novel to be written good (tho absolutely not a huge point for me), I don’t expect that from a game theory book, I expect it to be correct. (Another example might be how stupidity convoluted laws/contracts/t&a are written.)
What I kinda demand (only slightly irrationally or at least to an impractical extend) is that the subject is conveyed in an exact manner. I expect exact communicating overall.
And the og text you quoted is exact.
Oh … and at both ends it’s literacy - their (+to some extend whoever proofread it) literacy levels shows how eloquently they conveyed their data & thoughts, your literacy level shows how you though they are contradicting themselves.
You are judging a field specialist(s) on basically their communication skills.
“Carly Cassella is a Senior Journalist at ScienceAlert”
Or am I?
Also, it’s not my fault that people got all flustered about me simply pointing out that poor phrasing with “do they even proofread?”
Edit: goat -> got
Oh, a journalist, then bitch on :D (no /s, after all, random bitching is a fair part of lemmy).
But I think people replied to your og message because of the (mis?)use of the word “contradictory”, not because of the bitching as such.
(And Im mostly here bcs I like to understand myself, like what triggered you sceptically & how the same thing played in my mind)
