re: Is Long COVID real?

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What's more common is that a person's ability fend of normal colds/viruses after a Covid infection (even a mild one) is weakened for several months. Even how your body responds to things that trigger seasonal allergies are jacked up for a few months. There's been some recent studies on that.

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Sounds like a completely normal occurring virus that definitely wasn't made in a lab.

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Yes. My cousin caught long Covid. We knew he was in an at risk group due to having fibromyalgia

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That’s a shiny hook

I didn’t think it was real until one of my friends (who is actually a really hyper and busy person) was diagnosed with it

I’m not sure if my friend got it from the actual sickness or the vaccine, though.

It’s real my wife has it

{Fatigue, vertigo, nausea!}
I have dealt with this for years. My second bout with "covid" has made it worse.
Wake up, feel something that makes happy.

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I still can't smell or taste and its been over a year.

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Just had a friend admit to this (15 months without taste or smell) and he took nicotine chewables a couple times a day and melatonin before bed time. He could smell and taste within 12 hours of first nicotine.

Theory is that the nicotine extracts the remaining poison in your system. If you've ever had a wasp sting and put tobacco on it and it relieved pain instantly... same concept.

NO, it is not. There are 6 other covid viruses in circulation at this moment and none of them persist past a predictable cycle in the body. Neither does this one.

Damn it, too many idiots want this virus to become a new source of government welfare.

Interesting. I had a very mild case of Omicron and only major symptom was loss of smell for 3 days. I did Neti pot rinses and I gave credit to those for getting my smelling ability back, but maybe it was because I smoked RYO.

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He caught Covid pretty early on, before the shots were available, and seemed to have a mild case of it, but it would not go away.

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We had a friend who was a nurse at St. Dominic's in Jackson. She also caught covid early, before the vax came out. She kept getting worse and in a week, was in ICU at St. D. Then on a respirator. I remember the day they called her family in, allowed them to say good by and then unhooked her. I think she lasted 4 or 5 minutes. She was a poster child for good health. No weight conditions, no health concerns. Was a jogger with great BP and no respiration concerns. Lasted about 3 weeks after first diagnosis.

#2 the guy who cut my mom's yard was self employed witha family of four to support. He was in the hospital, unable to breath about a week after getting sick. Died maybe two months later. No insurance to cover a 2 month hospital before dieing stay. No insurance for his family. He was in good shape, young and a serious antivaxer.

#3 Old (elderly) mcouple friends in Marion, AL. Husband got (non covid) sick and was put in hospital in Birmingham early in the covid days. His wife (who would not leave his side) caught covid while he was in the hospital. He came home a few weeks later, after she died of it. She caught it and was dead maybe a week later. He satyed with her as much as they would let him and never caught it. They were both in their 70s and not vaccinated.

#4 My sister (an otherwise very healthy 60+ year old) in Texas has tested positive three times, has never missed a vaccine or booster. Her husband has never tested positive.

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We had a friend who was a nurse at St. Dominic's in Jackson. She also caught covid early, before the vax came out. She kept getting worse and in a week, was in ICU at St. D. Then on a respirator. I remember the day they called her family in, allowed them to say good by and then unhooked her. I think she lasted 4 or 5 minutes. She was a poster child for good health. No weight conditions, no health concerns. Was a jogger with great BP and no respiration concerns. Lasted about 3 weeks after first diagnosis.

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Age?