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To the skeptics in here: As someone who experienced long COVID for almost 12 months, the first problem is that most people won’t even get diagnosed with long COVID.

I’m lucky to have had the time to research a lot on my own and find private healthcare to get to the bottom of this.

My initial diagnosis was stress and a second attempt allergies. Took me six months and tests to finally get a diagnosis.

Before I got a diagnosis, I was ashamed of telling people I had self-assessed myself with long COVID, it honestly sounded crazy at the time.

Now in some good news, I did fully recover after 12 months.

Rather than dismissing long COVID, I would ask that we at least accept we do not fully understand COVID. This is not to create fear, but to avoid dismissing suffering some are still experiencing.

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I don’t think I was ever exposed, but I spent so much time indoors and away from organized athletics that my endurance was sketchy by last summer, at which point I did a project that involved a lot of dust and it just wrecked me. Bunch of tests including COVID and found nothing.

I haven’t said this out loud to anyone before, but I’m starting to worry how many of us are going to dodge COVID but catch complications from a sedentary, high stress, low socialization lifestyle. And for myself I know I’ve had a lot less variety in my diet not going to work and not making the rounds of various restaurants. Some large fraction of my vegetable intake, and the majority of the variety, coming from cycling through several different Asian cuisines per week.

I’m starting to worry how many of us are going to dodge COVID but catch complications from a sedentary, high stress, low socialization lifestyle

I've wondered the same thing. In the end I think fewer people will have died than had we taken the alternative route, but that doesn't necessarily mean we're not going to face negative consequences. It's been over two years already and I would say I'm just now learning how to really WFH and get out and socialize. I think we're all going to be better off in the long-run by not centering our lives so much around whom we work for, but it's going to take time to get there. This is a huge cultural shift every bit as impactful as when we moved from the farm to the city!

I had a random virus in 2010 that made me very sick for about a month, the doctors thought it was mono. I fully recovered, but then for about 2 years after I slept 12 - 16 hours a day and was tired all the time. No other changes.

Completely resolved itself over a couple of months, after about 2 years.

Viruses do very strange things to the body.

> To the skeptics in here: As someone who experienced long COVID for almost 12 months, the first problem is that most people won’t even get diagnosed with long COVID.

This is very much the case. A friend of mine has a bag of symptoms and the smallest hypothesis to explain them is long COVID. Or a sudden, but severe, onset, of several usually live long conditions like allergies and respiratory problems after a case of bad fevers. However, since they were never diagnosed with COVID, they will most likely never be diagnosed with long COVID. It's just a strange increase in respiratory problems in adults.

How was a stress diagnosis differentiated from a long covid one? And then how was the treatment any different?

How did you get diagnosed though? AFAIK there is still no test, so other than correlation in time what is there to work with?

What did you experience with allergies?

(if you don't mind sharing)

Please, please answer this.

What did you do to cure yourself?

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