What they don't tell you about surviving Covid

Ronni

Ronni

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I don’t want to be “recovered” from Covid like these folks. 😟 "Recovered" doesn't mean healthy...far, far from it!!!

Most people who catch the new coronavirus don’t experience severe symptoms, and some have no symptoms at all. COVID-19 saves its worst for relatively few. ICU nurse Sherie Antoinette has seen the serious cases first hand. The lucky ones — if you can call them that — recover, but not in the sense that their lives are back to normal. For some, the damage is permanent. Their organs will never fully heal.

"COVID 19 is the worst disease process I’ve ever worked with in my 8 years as an ICU nurse. When they say ’recovered,’ they don’t tell you that that means you may need a lung transplant,” Antoinette wrote in a Twitter post. “Or that you may come back after discharge with a massive heart attack or stroke, because COVID makes your blood thick as hell. Or that you may have to be on oxygen for the rest of your life.”

Quotes from some "recovered" patients:

I'm currently in the hospital after having a heart attack caused by clotting that resulted from COVID 19. I have a stent in my heart and need to wear a heart monitoring vest at all times. Now I face months of recovery including physical and occupational therapy. I'm only 29.
—Dan

I went into acute kidney failure and needed dialysis. I now have asthma, chronic cough and an irregular heartbeat. I have conditions I never had before, plus I’m wiped all the time. I hope this gets better, but you [Sherie] are on the money. And, mine was considered a low-moderate case.
— Stephanie McCarroll

I "recovered" March 29. I was born 65 years ago with chronic bronchitis that usually popped up maybe twice a year. Now, after COVID-19, I have acute bronchitis attacks 3-4 times a month and get winded walking to the mailbox.
— Hollis Charles

There are a bunch more quotes from "recovered" patients in the article. They're all chilling.

I’ll just reinforce my efforts to keep me and mine safe from it, thank you very much! :oops:

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This is all anecdotal. It's too soon to tell what the long term affects might, or might not, look like. A tweet is hardly a scientific study. I'm more concerned with what the stress of a constantly negative news stream is doing to people.
 

one i saw had several people listed. the 3 that stuck in my head was the older man who had to be placed on oxygen for the rest of his life. one woman went into a covid coma and 10 days later had a clot in her lung and spent another 5 days in the hospital. one younger more fit man is now using a walker.
 
Like many severe illnesses, there are probably a number of "side effects" that will impact some people more than others. In addition, if/when a vaccine is approved, it will probably have a number of its own Side Effects that will require even more medication and treatment. With all the Unknowns of this virus, it is extremely important that people follow the recommendations of social distancing, etc., unless they want to become unwitting volunteers in the "research" on this virus.
 
if i get it, i will likely get it at work because that is the only place i go where i'm exposed to so many at once. if i do survive (which is highly unlikely) i'm sure my life will be less than pleasant. but only God knows what is going to happen to us so, i'm trying to remain strong in the faith that no matter what, God will look after me. whether in life or in death. so, i try not to worry and just stay clear of everyone.
 
Treacle said:
In the news today it was said that people who have overcome the Covid 19 virus may be recalled to check that their lungs have not been damaged. One in three could have scarring and be damaged for life. I guess only time will tell. :unsure:
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You don't say where in the world you live @Treacle. I've seen no similar news in the US though. How terrifying!
 
I have a lot of medical problems now, including scared lungs from untreated pneumonias when I was younger and I’ve not had the virus. So called healthy people might not have been as healthy as they thought they were. Now that they are under a microscope unknown health problems, made worst by the virus, might now be showing up. IMO.
 
Aneeda72 said:
I have a lot of medical problems now, including scared lungs from untreated pneumonias when I was younger and I’ve not had the virus. So called healthy people might not have been as healthy as they thought they were. Now that they are under a microscope unknown health problems, made worst by the virus, might now be showing up. IMO.
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Yeah. There will always be a degree of that kind of thing.

I'm sure we all know or have known people who looked and acted perfectly healthy with no obvious or diagnosed illnesses or health conditions, who died or were taken severely ill apparently out of the blue. Even in this age of highly sophisticated testing, medical equipment, highly trained and specialized doctors, there is, and always will be, a degree of health conditions that continue undiagnosed till there's a catalyst. And that's no slight on anyone, just a comment on how easily health conditions can remain hidden because there's just no way to test for every single thing!

Even so, I can't realistically attribute every lingering severe health problem from covid to some heretofore undiagnosed medical condition. I think the nature of the virus is such that is completely capricious, and it can be especially vicious to some, while leaving others relatively unscathed.
 
I already had chronic sinus problems and when COVID got me, I was attacked primarily in the sinuses. The ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses were very compromised and I lost my sense of smell and taste. What frightened me at the time, was the proximity to my brain this infection was. I feared encephalitis, and my fevers were so high that my body twitched involuntarily. Drove me up a wall. Now that I have recovered, I can taste, but not smell and my sinuses still are in very bad shape. I talked to the doctor about this and he said sadly, most of us do have post virus problems with the areas involved. So, there you have it.
 
Lewkat said:
I already had chronic sinus problems and when COVID got me, I was attacked primarily in the sinuses. The ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses were very compromised and I lost my sense of smell and taste. What frightened me at the time, was the proximity to my brain this infection was. I feared encephalitis, and my fevers were so high that my body twitched involuntarily. Drove me up a wall. Now that I have recovered, I can taste, but not smell and my sinuses still are in very bad shape. I talked to the doctor about this and he said sadly, most of us do have post virus problems with the areas involved. So, there you have it.
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I don’t have a good sense of taste but I have a good sense of smell. I think I’d rather have taste than smell though. Food is always pretty blah to me. Do you miss having a good sense of smell a lot?
 
CarolfromTX said:
This is all anecdotal. It's too soon to tell what the long term affects might, or might not, look like. A tweet is hardly a scientific study. I'm more concerned with what the stress of a constantly negative news stream is doing to people.
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It is not a tweet rather facts coming out of clinical studies showing the after affects of the virus on some patients. More information is needed much like the information on what this virus actually is and what it will do in the Fall and Winter.
 
fmdog44 said:
It is not a tweet rather facts coming out of clinical studies showing the after affects of the virus on some patients. More information is needed much like the information on what this virus actually is and what it will do in the Fall and Winter.
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This article quoted no clinical studies. Not only that, it didn't even use last names in most instances. IMO it's meant not to inform, but to alarm. This virus has been around for maybe 6 months. That's not exactly long term.

There may well be long term affects for some people. But I object to alarmist, doom-and-gloom articles that promote anecdotal "evidence."
 
CarolfromTX said:
This article quoted no clinical studies. Not only that, it didn't even use last names in most instances. IMO it's meant not to inform, but to alarm. This virus has been around for maybe 6 months. That's not exactly long term.

There may well be long term affects for some people. But I object to alarmist, doom-and-gloom articles that promote anecdotal "evidence."
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You're quite right, the science is lacking. There are few, if any, clinical studies yet. The virus is still very new, and consequently so are the "recoveries."

What exists right now are countless articles from health care professionals, lay people, patients, etc all over the net that provide a huge amount of anecdotal accounts of serious and debilitating outcomes from having had the virus.

Are they alarming? Yes, absolutely. I certainly am alarmed! And while there are yet few clinical studies to back up these reports because not enough time has passed to be able to conduct them, I personally am certainly not going to ignore the wealth of information that's out there pointing to some heavy duty long term affects.

Those personal accounts just affirm that I'm doing the right thing by taking this pandemic very seriously.
 
@Ronni i'm in total agreement with you there. in just 3 days we went from 28 cases to 50 because people won't stay home, they won't distance and they won't wear their masks. it has started at it's first nursing home here. and 7 of the cases are from a plant. i get plenty of exposure at work. i'm not adding to it by running around town. plus i figure the less places i go the easier it will be for them to trace where i've been and who i've been in contact with.
 
The Atlantic has been running an excellent series on the virus, its horrors, and probable outcome. I realized that I've been very much underestimating how awful this situation is, even for those of us who don't get sick. Here's one article, entitled "The Virus Will Win."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/virus-will-win/612946/

What I can't understand is why about half the country is willing to put people at risk of an unpredictable, horrifying death (and you die alone from this disease), rather than see the business indicators temporarily go down. Young people seem to feel impervious to this virus. They aren't. The latest articles describe many otherwise healthy young people getting it and suddenly dying, or being left with long-term (possibly lifelong) physical impairment. It isn't only a disease of old people, though that would be bad enough.

I get the feeling that many people have simply shut their minds down. They don't hear what they don't want to hear.
 

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