🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/
https://t.co/Gq8iylgfBr
@FaultyCollagen Es que lo de la tripa es terrible, los riñones por ahora no me han dado guerra. Ya había tomado antidepres pero este nuevo me ha dado este síntoma tan raro que no sé si es por eso o por otra cosa. Gastroparesia, gastritis, sibo, algo compresivo, who knows 😅🤙🏼
Llevo una hora en urgencias y ni me han sacado la sangre que me dijeron que me tenian que sacar ni me han dado el tratamiento para el dolor y el mareo.
I’d like to openly plug my book, Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand to Long Covid patients. https://t.co/aR8SZ3270n. Here’s a thread on why you might find it helpful. 1/
🧵 Some feel that #pwme (& #longCOVID) are faking their condition or that they're making it all up. That it's deconditioning, kinesiofobia & lets not forget the secondary gains!
This is me still in my dancing years. I felt alive, invincible & on top of the world. I adored my job
If you have #LongCovid or #ME and consider the use of steroids, please be very careful. It can help some people but for other people, like me, it can make the symptoms way worse. I thought I had nothing to lose. Well it turned out I had lots to lose... 1/
Highlights from a an ITV news report on Severe ME (2005).
~20yrs on & many doctors still believe its psychological, still no treatments, & very little to no support. Many with #LongCovid experience similar disbelief and neglect. History must not be repeated.
#MEAwarenesshour