We had psychiatrists claiming it was mass hysteria until fairly recently.
Honestly i’m still not sure, but what if it is? Is there any proof that it is not?
I think that there’s never been found any physically measurable indication for ME/CFS or Long Covid. From all we know, either it’s hormone-meditated and we have no fucking clue what hormone(s) do(es) it, or it is really psychological, maybe some mechanism buried deep within the subconscious.
With newer mri machines we can show an inflammation in the brainstem in ME/CFS patients. Since those machines are rare, expensive and often not necessary for a dignosis we don’t know a lot yet.
900 people is a fairly small sample size for a study like this, and the data is entirely self-reported. Given that long covid is suspected to be autoimmune-related and the 17.9% that reported worsening symptoms after vaccination, it seems premature to recommend everyone with long covid immediately get the vaccine.
I’m not a medical professional and you probably aren’t either, so we shouldn’t be taking one study and running with the shaky conclusions it draws. Let the scientific community do their work.
Yep! Even large swaths of the medical field are ignoring it.
We had psychiatrists claiming it was mass hysteria until fairly recently.
Honestly i’m still not sure, but what if it is? Is there any proof that it is not?
I think that there’s never been found any physically measurable indication for ME/CFS or Long Covid. From all we know, either it’s hormone-meditated and we have no fucking clue what hormone(s) do(es) it, or it is really psychological, maybe some mechanism buried deep within the subconscious.
With newer mri machines we can show an inflammation in the brainstem in ME/CFS patients. Since those machines are rare, expensive and often not necessary for a dignosis we don’t know a lot yet.
Mine said the symptoms and treatment were the same as depression anyway
I’m sorry you experienced gaslighting. Fuck that doctor for misinformation they said…
But yeah shitty doctors tend to just blame it on depression because they are too lazy to learn about something new.
There are a number of studies suggesting that covid vaccines may improve long covid symptoms. Here is one such study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9146071/#%3A~%3Atext=There+was+considerable+individual+variation%2Clong+COVID+patients%2C+on+average.
So while I’m not sure it counts as an approved treatment, it sure seems like it’s worth trying (if you haven’t already).
900 people is a fairly small sample size for a study like this, and the data is entirely self-reported. Given that long covid is suspected to be autoimmune-related and the 17.9% that reported worsening symptoms after vaccination, it seems premature to recommend everyone with long covid immediately get the vaccine.
I’m not a medical professional and you probably aren’t either, so we shouldn’t be taking one study and running with the shaky conclusions it draws. Let the scientific community do their work.
I feel pretty comfortable recommending that people get the covid vaccine.