Long COVID: All you need to know

Estimates say that as many as 1 in 10 people who had COVID were still affected more than 3 months later. This health condition has become known as long COVID. In this video, we will be discussing what long COVID is, how long it lasts, how common it is, what you should do if you think you’re affected, and more.

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00:00 Intro
00:30 What is long COVID?
02:59 What causes it?
05:35 Medical Gaslighting
07:51 How many people have it?
10:32 Who has it?
12:00 How long is long COVID?
13:52 What can you do to avoid getting it?
15:15 What can you do if you think you have long COVID?
17:12 What’s next?
18:05 Summary
18:25 Protect Against Viruses with NordVPN

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Dianna aka Physics Girl has long covid for a few months and it's heart-breaking to see someone so energetic and positive in her videos to be bedridden and suffering so much. Her family and friends have posted some tweets and videos with updates on her condition that illustrate how terrible this illness can be. Stay safe people

[jong]

The worst thing about long covid is, even if you get someone to listen, you still have extremely limited options for recovery. Doctors don't know anything about this, and don't seem to be seeking information.

[rereout]

Just sharing here in case it might help anyone:
After a bad covid this summer I felt my digestive system had been affected. I couldn't tolerate some greasy foods, and alcohol suddenly made me very sick.
My doctor told me my covid infection probably left me with a destroyed microbiot.
I took high quantities of pre- and pro-biotics during two months, and was extremely cautious with my diet (lots of veggies, no sugar, few carbs, only healthy fats like olive oil)... Everything is now back to normal.

[Meenaia]

I had nearly all of these symptoms for months. Someone told me I had long covid. Turns out I was in an emotionally abusive relationship and shortly after I left it, cognitive functions were better, heart palpitations dissipated, and my digestive problems were vastly improved. Perhaps I did have long covid but getting away from soul crushing stress is what made things turn around for me.

[BeersyPaints]

Thank you for covering this. If you develop MECFS not only are you going to suffer immensely without any real hope of treatment, but you will see an ugly side of humanity that healthy people never will.

[CG_Hali]

I had meningitis at 4, barely survived. Life-long worsening chronic fatigue syndrome. When I read the list of Long Covid symptoms, except for those relating to lungs, it's dot for dot the same. Post viral syndrome need to be acknowledged more widely and studied! Turns out covid and meningitis and a host of other illness that attack the brain use the same pathways in the brain. I don't think it's a coincidence when afterwards so many develop similar symptoms, especially the central nervous system disorders like dysautonomia. Cheers and thanks for talking about it! The more research is done, the better chances for all the other post-viral syndromes without solutions out there.

[michaelatherton]

Thank you for presenting this. I have served on the board of directors for the Solve ME/CFS initiative for a decade and my wife has had ME/CFS since 1995. Solve has completely embraced the Long COVID community including significant support for the Long COVID Alliance. Short of a cure or treatment we seek a bio marker to catalyze much needed research. Yes, many improve over time but for others it is a chronic condition that only gets worse with time. The cost to individuals and to society is extraordinarily high and warrants a more significant investment in research.

[CHex.]

Thanks for bringing up medical gaslighting! I don't know if I even suffered LC or still do, but I relate to mental fog for a few years now and doctors telling me I'm stressed. This is not only happening in countries where you pay for medical attention. I live in Spain and medical assistance is a right, paid by the state. Still doctors treat you with contempt too often.

[JeffreydeKogel]

As someone who's life has been pretty much ruined by Long Covid over the past two years: thank you for this video!

[Paulomedi]

Brazilian Neurologist here. Contracted COVID five times during the pandemic, working in the ICUs. I have mithocondrial disfunction because of COVID. And I'm one of the lucky ones. Saw it all, from COVID alopecia to COVID ungueal dystrophy on the toe. Till this day I treat the poor chaps that have long COVID. No cure in sight, but I have some success with vortioxetine, sulpiride, l-carnitine, biotine and coenzime q10.

[jswij]

Thank you Sabine for bringing this under the attention. As a father and husband of two long COVID patients I can really appreciate it. Having become a bit of an expert on this by necessity, I can say that I found your video accurate and well balanced.

[cs]

My son was 16 when he got covid in 2021 and he's been sick since then. He couldn't finish school after being an honor student. He didn't even have a severe case. I almost died at the time after covid-related pneumonia and I have struggled too, but he was formally diagnosed. There was no help for him with our horrible US state insurance. He had 8 weeks of PT but that was about it. He's so out of it all the time now he says its dissociation. I wish I could help him. We are doing the exercises but it's exhausting and he often struggles through it. He's just so weak and it's stolen his teen years. All his friends moved on and went to all their proms and dances and he's just gone through test after test, repeated labs and brain scans with allt hese specialists and all they can come up with is long covid.

[joelhendry]

I was hospitalized with long covid in 2021 before the vaccine was available to me. After two CT scans, an MRI, more blood tests that I can shake a stick at; the neurologist shrugged his shoulders, told me "there is no physiological cause to your symptoms", strongly implied that I had munchausens and sending me straight to a psychiatrist who then told me that this isn't a psychiatric disorder.

[zAbdullahKhan]

I have been following you on Twitter for quite a while now, chiefly for physics. I contracted COVID in July 2021 and have been bedbound and housebound with a multitude of debilitating symptoms since then, it's basically disabled me. I was somewhat improving by late 2022, went from completely bedbound to housebound to being able to resume my studies (graduate classes 2 days a week), then I took MMR vaccine in early 2023 for relocating to Canada and it has reversed whatever improvements I have made and brought even more severe cognitive/brain issues and I have been back to bedbound since getting the MMR vaccine.

COVID-19 isn't the only virus that causes long-term, disabling post-viral symptoms, especially ME/CFS, there are many other viruses that can also cause similar long-term symptoms. For example, Dengue fever and EBV. Post-dengue symptoms are very identical to post-COVID sequelae symptoms and even severe, both viruses severely affect the brain.

[terryjwood]

Medical Gaslighting! Thanks for giving that a name! My PCP insisted that I couldn't have an illness that he never learned about in medical school. I figured out what was wrong with me and what the solution was, but he insisted that was "IMPOSSIBLE" (that's him screaming at me) and he demanded I go on six months of Valium to rid me of the obsession that I was ill.

I found a pediatric allergist at Children's Hospital who had seen my "new" illness before and could provide me with the name of it. My PCP was now in a bind. It was no longer my "obsession", I had a specialist who had diagnosed me. Sadly, his ego couldn't handle that and I fired him and got a new PCP who was eager to treat my illness. I quickly recovered with the right treatment.

I often think about what life would have been like with a Valium addiction AND my original illness. I doubt I could handle both at the same time.

[FlyMIfYouGotM]

Imagine that; doctors not listening to a patient or outright dismissing them. I personally have witnessed multiple instances of this and 4 of those, "blown off" patiens/friends died as a result!

[weksauce]

Gaslighting is NEVER "questioning someone else's experiences". Gaslighting is ALWAYS doing things to make someone doubt their sanity, usually so they appear insane to a 3rd party. That's what happened in Gaslight. The man in Gaslight did NOT QUESTION his wife's experiences. He manipulated her experiences, denied that her experiences were accurate, and made her appear insane to a 3rd party.

[brma]

Thank you Sabine for summarizing this so well! It seems that my employer, my friends and some of my family even have begun to ignore the ongoing risks both individually and societally that this virus whose origins remain unclear continues to wreak. I will be showing this to my supervisor and to my friends and family. Many thanks for your hard work on this and for your other videos and humour as well 🤗

[jaymartin]

My wife in two days from COVID on her second time getting COVID. She was fully vaccinated when testing positive for COVID on 12/26, I took her to the doctor on 12/27 with blood oxygen levels of eighty. They sent her home without any treatment and told her to get some rest her lungs collapsed on the morning of 12/28 causing her death.

[keithryales]

I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome in may of 2021 after 7 months of testing. I still suffer from it today. I failed 8th grade because I was too tired to do school work. Nearly the same thing happened last year in 10th grade. I could not attend school because I was so tired and nearly failed. I’m very worried about what colleges will think about my gpa. I was a gifted student and excelled in school, but now it’s hard to even do the simple things.