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grandmasterfunc t1_j671vx9 wrote

People with long covid regularly get told by doctors that they have anxiety, not long covid. Large chunks of the medical establishment minimizes or disbelieves long covid symptoms. They already do this for MECFS, fibromyalgia, and other post viral illnesses.

Please don't believe this article, it's trying to hide real people's debilitating illnesses so society can go "back to normal".

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Aspel t1_j67ebd9 wrote

Half the things on this subreddit are actually not very uplifting and instead dystopian. "Small child pays for cancer treatment through poorly paid labor" and such. This just follows that pattern.

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Jealous-Elephant t1_j68r9sj wrote

Or people just aren’t reporting long covid as much because the help isn’t there and it costs a lot. I agree with ya

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desperaste t1_j67e8ia wrote

Fibromyalgia is a fake illness

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Billielolly t1_j67yhhe wrote

Can you tell my nerves and muscles that? I'd really like to not have to take pills to prevent my pain, thanks.

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oszlopkaktusz t1_j65xg8b wrote

Does this mean a smaller percentage report symptoms from those who get infected now, does it mean that the nominal number is smaller or does it mean that those who formerly reported symptoms got better?

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davinci_covid t1_j679x7i wrote

If it's anywhere like CFS has been to my experience then it probably means than the long covid patients has been bullied and gaslighted enough by the medical community so they don't have any reason left to go to the doctor and report their symptoms.

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Pun106 t1_j676l2n wrote

When I got Covid over a year ago, I ended up having Parosmia, meaning things just smelled and tasted awful, just a year to date later, it began to completely diminish, at least as far as my sense of taste.

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adeadfreelancer t1_j65t00z wrote

I hate to tell you this. It isn't because the threat has gone away. This is not uplifting.

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Reneeisme t1_j65v1ec wrote

The article says it’s either the impact of changes in the virus or increased immunity. I’m personally quite worried about long covid so to me, that WAS good news. Why do you say it’s not?

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sudoku7 t1_j66ay5n wrote

The cynical assumption that it’s just people accepting their long covid as normal instead of something exceptional to report on. As you said though the article doesn’t indicate why it changed.

(Edit) the odd bit from the article is that is the number of folks who report ever having long covid symptoms is down. Which is an indicator that there may need to be some follow up with a longitudinal study.

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Spire_Citron t1_j66impp wrote

I guess it's a sort of vague thing to define. People may attribute things to long covid and then later find out there was some other reason they'd been feeling off.

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ScienceMomCO t1_j66s4iv wrote

If you visit the long Covid subs you would see that we have had many, many new members join the last few months. It is definitely not on the decline. I truly wish it was.

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Informal_Self_5671 t1_j664bnf wrote

Is it because they get better, or because they die?

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Polymersion t1_j69iafn wrote

To my understanding, the "Long COVID" stuff isn't deadly stuff, but really bad quality-of-life stuff.

Persistent but low-level cough, breathing and sinus problems, weakness and (most alarming to me) long-term "brain fog".

I'm personally getting worried because I've had the "brain fog" since the last time I had COVID, but I also work in healthcare and it could just be constant low-level exposure to different things. Sucks, regardless.

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lanc3rz3r0 t1_j68qqd3 wrote

I mean, reporting may be down, but sickness isn't

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Aspel t1_j67e8ar wrote

I still have pretty bad sense of smell.

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Rylz123 t1_j65778v wrote

You are a negative comment.

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