My oldest sister got [what she believes to be] COVID in Feb 2020. She's been on disability since then, and while she's not cognitively impaired, she can't walk around for more than 60 seconds before having to lay down again.
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If she doesn’t have a specific diagnosis yet, (Long COVID is an umbrella term for many post-COVID illnesses), I’d suggest looking both into POTS and ME/CFS which can present with that kind of fatigue and inability to stand up for long you mention. (These illnesses are commonly triggered by COVID and part of the long COVID phenomenon).
Sorry to hear about your sister. COVID is really a mass disabling event.
Not that I disagree with any of this but what's up with that B/S graph from the NYT? The Y axis starts at 30 million and ends at 33 million. It makes it appear as if 3x the number of people are on disability now even though it looks like it only went from around 30M to 33M.
It’s pretty clear if you read the graph. A good chunk of graphs don’t start at 0. I don’t rhink this is disingenuous especially since its a screenshot of those sliding infographics thing that put much emphasis on the graph legend.
Also the graph ends at 35 million, not 33.
I’m a healthcare worker and everyone I work with mocks Covid and being precautionary, let alone even acknowledge that long-COVID exists. I can’t imagine having long-covid and having to deal with the massive amount of healthcare workers thinking you’re full of shit. It’s actually shocking sometimes to see how many healthcare workers and doctors are completely ignorant.
It really fucking sucks. It compounds the suffering so much.
I’ve had friends from support groups end up killing themselves because they can’t get the support they need.
Thank you for being on the right side of things. ❤️
For as much as I read about long COVID, I can't find a doctor who will acknowledge anything more than "yeah, that's an interesting theory" and I've seen doctors in Spain, Mexico, US, Hungary, and Thailand. COVID definitely affected me long term. One thing that seemed to heal it about 95% for me was the traditional frog medicine, kambo. There is some scientific basis to it working via documented peptides, but very few studies.
Look for specific long covid clinics. Usually at university run hospitals or facilities.
They use some wildly off label meds, but they're getting results.