Some have recently suggested that Long COVID may merely be a new name for fibromyalgia and that this diagnosis is indeed the condition that many or most may be suffering from as a post infectious sequela. In this Viewpoint we argue that while the parallels between the clinical syndrome ...
it's possible that your condition might be mistaken for something besides long COVID. There's not a single test you can take to find out if you have long COVID. Your doctor makes that diagnosis based on whether you had COVD-19, your symptoms, plus ruling out ...
New data from a nationwide study recently published in the journalOpen Forum of Infectious Diseasessuggests that Long COVID is not a single condition, and should not be treated as such. This research examined the lasting symptoms ofCOVID-19patients at both three and six months after diagnosis. ...
3). But since the presenting signs of long COVID are so nonspecific, e.g., similar to the poorly understood, often used and criticised ‘chronic fatigue’, experts soon realized that long COVID should be a diagnosis by exclusion, e.g., all other possible cardiac, pulmonary, ...
has to do with how we talk about difficult things. I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who first told me about my neuroma. He said that I needed to come back to the hospital because his colleagues had discove...
Long covid (post covid-19 condition) is a complex condition with diverse manifestations, uncertain prognosis and wide variation in current approaches to management. There have been calls for formal quality standards to reduce a so-called “postcode lotte
Atish Ram, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March of 2020 and spent two months in hospital, walks with his wife Mandy as he starts to build back his strength post-COVID. Nearly a year later, he’s still dealing with what people call “long COVID.” (Photo:...
I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who first told me about my neuroma. He said that I needed to come back to the hospital because his colleagues had discovered “a benign growth that had probably been there for a very long time.” ...
Yet many people with long Covid, or with prolonged symptoms from other causes, reject a diagnosis of FND, or complain that it has been given with only a cursory examination. Many find that getting it removed from their medical records can be difficult, if not impossible. ...
When Christopher Perry got sick in July 2021, he thought he just had a bad cold. But after Perry's adult son found him passed out in his living room, he was taken to the hospital and put on life support due to Covid-19. A diagnosis of respiratory lung failure has led to long-term...