RE: disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/11…
if there is one thing i’ve learned from the pandemic is that #LongCOVID isn't unique; that other viral infections ―especially #influenza― can leave us with long-term chronic illnesses after we’ve “gotten over” the infection.
got me thinking when did i start feeling achy all the time? am almost certain i developed #fibromyalgia after a bad #flu infection, turned into “walking” #pneumonia in the 1990s.
can we correlate the explosion of chronic diseases with the normalization of #flu infections?
RE: disabled.social/@tomkindlon/11…Quote:
"Long COVID did not create medicine’s discomfort with invisible illness. It exposed a preexisting pattern that millions of patients had been navigating for decades.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, POTS — these conditions share remarkable clinical overlap with Long COVID, and they share something else too: a history of being dismissed, minimized, and inadequately researched"
#MEcfs #LongCovid #POTS #MedMastodon
Tom Kindlon (@tomkindlon@disabled.social)
Health is Political by Brittani James “Long COVID Changed Everything” https://www.blog.brittanijamesmd.com/p/long-covid-changed-everything Description from Science for ME @s4me@universeodon.Tom Kindlon (disabled.social)
