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But taking that perspective requires correcting for the systematic underweighting of the testimonial evidence of patients of chronic illnesses.
Less trendiness, more empathy, please.
Fortunately I'm on the mild end of the spectrum and flairs are infrequent but it'd be nice if we had something better to treat auto-immune disorders.
To control my chrohns I changed my diet by removing foods, keeping track of general well being for a few weeks then gradually introducing them to see what happened til I found a routine that worked, it's bland most of the time but I'll take the win - basically a Mediterranean diet which is fine.
There is however a bunch of things in the pipeline including things like targetted biologics to selectively target the immune system that are exciting.
I'd lost a lot of weight worryingly fast - mostly because of massive reflux problems (barrets oesophagus), was having frequent bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea and was generally in a shit state all around - as for diet it's really hard to recommend anything to anyone else since it varies so much - what worked for me was keeping a detailed journal of what I ate, how I felt, how I slept, toilet habits, times etc then I cut out basically everything from my diet I could for a few weeks (think porridge, cottage cheese and mashed potato/oven cooked chicken breasts) and very gradually added things back still keeping the journal until I had actual data I could look at - for me there isn't really any one food or group that acts as a trigger red meat/processed meat comes the closest, it's large high fat/high carb (think Pizza) that do it - if I eat fresh foods/veggies/fish/cheese (hard not soft) and limited amounts of fruit I have it mostly under control but what works for me might wreck you.
I am not a medical professional, but I know these people and how their bodies functioned beforehand. The way they are now is certainly not a hard-to-diagnose chronic syndrome that is unreleated to them catching the damn thing.
But, also, you'll find people with long COVID who are finally paying attention to other symptoms and ascribing them to the C-19 infection.
But if you screened any population of lower health you'd find a fair number of instances of these... and historical baselines are probably not valid because we've had a weird year. So-- the exact incidence of some of the milder end of long COVID is hard to pin down.
Certainly some people have these symptoms and they are very very likely to be from the COVID infection itself.
But other people have more minor symptoms and these are included in many estimates of post-COVID syndrome, and discerning whether they were related at all to COVID and caused by COVID itself is more complicated, because if you were to screen a normal population with these criteria you'd find a fair incidence of these symptoms.
I was down for about two additional months after that, in which I caught another flu twice, and could barely get out of bed for a while. And then I proceeded to have complications from colds and flus that evolved to bronchitis or pneumonia every single flu season for the next 8 years.
It took nearly a decade to really recover from that. I see no reason to think any sufficiently bad respiratory infection with high enough viral load wouldn't do the same thing, especially to people much less healthy than 20 year-old me, a two-time state champion cross country runner in high school.
post-infection complications are not uncommon, although specifics certainly vary. i'd also had a long tail of recovery from a flu->bronchitis->pneumonia cascade a few years ago (on the order of many months, not years).
Salt has a way of pulling infections out of tissues.
'"When fine salt particles are inhaled, they will fall on the airway linings and draw water into the airway, thinning the mucus and making it easier to raise, thus making people feel better," said Dr. Edelman.'
https://www.lung.org/blog/promising-placebo-salt-halotherapy...
There is salt in the air at the beach, so I'd stay away from the ocean if you think inhaling salt is a bad idea.
The political/social powder-keg of denying a covid related insurance claim is not one that a health insurance corporation would probably be willing to take, at least for another year or 2.
The "pushbacks" you see on social media are essentially the output of a random sentence generator. Covid is not real, covid escaped from a lab, covid is a conspiracy, etc. etc.
Be careful with that stuff. You are what you read (and believe).
There's varying severities. The 1/8 figure applies only to people who developed long-COVID after being hospitalized for acute COVID (i.e. most likely on a ventilator).
Minor COVID cases can still develop several long-COVID symptoms (the symptoms you pointed out) that aren't life-threatening. This is the long-COVID you generally hear about because surviving a minor or asymptomatic case of COVID isn't the end of your worries, and is why it is beyond idiotic to play fast and loose with the virus.