The pandemic might not have spawned a new chronic illness but rebranded an old one. ManvBrain reports
describing his symptoms: sporadically aching muscles, an upset stomach, muddled thinking, dizziness. Sometimes he would feel better; then he’d relapse and feel “as though someone had hit me around the head with a cricket bat.” Looking for answers, he became active in online long-COVID groups and read up on advice for people with ME/CFS. To avoid triggering post-exertional malaise, he took the advice of patient advocates and carefully paced his activities.
Others have experienced similar pushback. This past March, a psychiatry resident at McMaster University in Ontario named Jeremy Devine wrote anin which he argued that long-COVID symptoms are most likely psychological in origin and asserted that patients’ rejection of a psychiatric diagnosis was itself a common aspect of the syndrome.
While the psychiatric perspective on long COVID is largely absent from public discourse, it is alive and well in clinical practice. The U.S. government has not approved any therapies for long COVID per se, but patients with chronic fatigue who visit a long-COVID clinic will likely receive some form of CBT, exercise therapy, or both.
found that getting vaccinated didn’t much affect a person’s chances of coming down with long COVID, as you’d expect if it was triggered by the virus.
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