Some Patients Are Reporting Long COVID Recoveries —But Experts Still Don’t Fully Understand Why
A few months ago, Lana Lynch had resigned herself to never getting better. Months after testing positive for COVID-19, she still felt fatigued, still got daily headaches, still had to carefully regulate how much she exerted herself each day. She was coming to terms with her new normal—until she didn’t have to.
After receiving her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in May, Lynch, a 32-year-old from Texas, noticed that she wasn’t quite so tired anymore. She could get through a yoga class without hitting a wall. “I felt like I had some energy,” she says, “but I didn’t...
Source: TIME: Health - June 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Identifying and managing suicidality in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Chu L, Elliott M, Stein E, Jason LA.
Adult patients affected by myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are at an increased risk of death by suicide. Based on the scientific literature and our clinical/research experiences, we identify risk and protective factors and provi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
375,000 Britons say they are still suffering from Long Covid, official report finds
An Office for National Statistics survey also found a million Britons were experiencing symptoms including chronic fatigue and muscle pain at least four weeks after infection. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GI Symptoms and Chronic Fatigue May Persist Months After COVID-19 GI Symptoms and Chronic Fatigue May Persist Months After COVID-19
Gastrointestinal symptoms and chronic fatigue may persist months after COVID-19 resolves, results of a recent cohort-controlled study suggest.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - May 28, 2021 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
Long-COVID-19 Patients Are Getting Diagnosed With Little-Known Illnesses Like POTS
The day Dr. Elizabeth Dawson was diagnosed with COVID-19, she awoke feeling as if she had a bad hangover. Four months later, in February 2021, she tested negative for the virus, but her symptoms have only worsened.
Dawson is among what Dr. David Goldstein, head of the National Institutes of Health’s Autonomic Medicine Section, called “waves and waves” of “long-haul” COVID patients who remain sick long after testing negative for the virus. A significant percentage are suffering from syndromes that few doctors understand or treat, primarily postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and ch...
Source: TIME: Health - May 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cindy Loose / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Could COVID-19 Trigger Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the Young?
TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 -- Although older adults are among the most vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19, new research warns that young patients can develop long-lasting fatigue and concentration problems, even if their COVID-19 infection was... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
For years, my chronic illness kept me isolated. The pandemic helped me get closer to my community.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome has left me homebound and alone. Worldwide videoconferencing during covid-19 has changed that. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - May 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rivka Solomon Source Type: news
Black Women Are Fighting to Be Recognized as Long COVID Patients
It took five years of chronic pain, nausea, fuzzy thoughts and a cruel mixture of fatigue and insomnia for Wilhelmina Jenkins to be diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). But even after she received that diagnosis, in 1988, she faced her fair share of doubters—not because her symptoms didn’t meet the bar for diagnosis, but because she is Black.
At that time, researchers mistakenly thought ME/CFS, a syndrome that sometimes follows a viral illness and leads to long-term pain, fatigue and other symptoms that can last decades, primarily affected upper-class white women. It was p...
Source: TIME: Health - April 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
COVID-19'Long-Haul' Symptoms Overlap With ME/CFS COVID-19'Long-Haul' Symptoms Overlap With ME/CFS
Long-term symptoms following acute COVID-19 illness were predictable based on prior experience with postviral fatigue syndromes including myalgic encephalomyelitis, experts say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - March 26, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
A Year Into the Pandemic, Long COVID Is Still Burdening Patients —and Their Caregivers
When Ghenya Grondin starts rattling off the symptoms she still experiences a year after getting sick with what she believes was COVID-19, she has to pause to consult a list she keeps on her phone for occasions like this one. Exhaustion. Fevers. Headaches. Body aches. Chest pain and shortness of breath. Nausea and gastrointestinal problems. Dry eyes. Brain fog and memory loss—hence her need for a digital list, which goes on and on.
While Grondin’s physical symptoms are bad enough to keep her mostly homebound and unable to do her work as a postpartum doula, the constant mental fogginess has hit her hard emotional...
Source: TIME: Health - March 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme and Francesca Trianni Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Long Covid and graded exercise therapy | Letter
No trials of graded exercise have shown to harm patients, sayDr Alastair Miller,Prof Paul GarnerandProf Peter White,so those with post-Covid fatigue syndrome should not be discouraged from trying itDr Joanna Herman is right to call out the lack of care being offered to sufferers of long Covid (People with long Covid urgently need help. Why can ’t we access it?, 10 March). The willingness of doctors to speak out as patients has done much to highlight the long-term effects of Covid-19.We know that long Covid is more than one disease, all of which will need different treatments. But we do not know that graded exercise thera...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 11, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Physiotherapists Source Type: news
Science Saturday: Mayo researchers explore genetics behind COVID-19 outcomes
Some patients with COVID-19 experience severe complications, such as organ damage, shortness of breath, neurological impairment and chronic fatigue. A team of researchers within Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine is contributing to the global effort of using advanced genetic sequencing to find out which genes influence disease outcomes. "Our findings will be crucial in treating and [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - March 6, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Association between chronic fatigue syndrome and suicidality among survivors of Middle East respiratory syndrome over a 2-year follow-up period - Ahn SH, Kim JL, Kim JR, Lee SH, Yim HW, Jeong H, Chae JH, Park HY, Lee JJ, Lee H.
Suicide is an important public health issue during the current pandemic of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). In EIDs, various symptoms persist even after recovery, and chronic fatigue is among those that are commonly reported. The aim of this study was ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Invisible Illnesses: Underlying Medical Problems
Invisible disability expert Dr. Diana Driscoll discusses Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), vagus nerve disorders, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), and similar invisible illnesses (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 23, 2021 Category: Disability Tags: Invisible Disability Source Type: news
Treating COVID Fatigue and Dyspnea -- Deep Breaths, Plenty of Rest Treating COVID Fatigue and Dyspnea -- Deep Breaths, Plenty of Rest
Dr Aaron Holley discusses how to treat two of the most commonly reported post-COVID symptoms, chronic fatigue and dyspnea.Medscape Critical Care (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - February 19, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Pulmonary Medicine Viewpoint Source Type: news
