Understanding long COVID | Your Morning

More than 300,000 Canadians are struggling with long COVID and doctors say that number is likely higher.

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[jasonwojnicz]

My mom is dealing with this with my dad. He was ventilated in July of 2020. Spent 6 weeks in the hospital. Now almost 2 years later she says they'll be watching TV and she'll see him kind of check out and then he'll suddenly stand up and not know why he stood up. Asking her what he was doing or where he was going. He gets distracted easy, gets dizzy spells. It's kind of like dementia, sort of. He has full faculties and most of the time he's his regular self. He gets tired a lot and takes naps during the day, which has never been him. There's so many symptoms that it's difficult to keep up with them all. She's watching him all the time, which is stressful on both of them. With both me and my sister being grown, out of the house and with our own responsibilities it's hard on us because we want to help but we don't know how. I live 1700 miles away from them and my sister has a toddler. I really wish I knew of a Facebook group for "long haulers" that is for people in the US and on Medicare.

[mLify]

My wife and I weren't able to get a positive PCR test because by time we got symptoms we would have had to take a bus to get tested and we didn't want to spread the infection. But my wife still has bad asthma and fatigue 2 months later. Thankfully, her doctor believes her and she's getting treatment for it. I can only imagine how bad it would have been for us if we hadn't been vaccinated and boosted. Omicron is so contagious, we caught it from neighbors in our apartment building even though we'd been carefully self-isolating for the last year and a half. At this point, it's everywhere. There is no escape.

[scbtripwire]

The cognitive difficulties COVID can cause scares me more than any other symptom.😟 I haven't had COVID yet, not looking forward to it. ☹️

[kevingray]

sorry hard to believe anything on covid from you guys after all the bs you served us for the last couple years

[lecleland]

I was told that "Long Covid" isn't a thing. And then I got it.

[starvinforGarvin]

Ya, it's called being fully vaxxed.

[MichaelMiller-opfe]

You're a bunch of victims. get out, exercise, take some deep breaths get over it, move on and stop trying to look so sad.