Symptoms of Covid-19

Skin rashes?:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/med...in-the-uk-doctors-say/ar-BB19NI8T?ocid=ASUDHP

 

There seems to be a rash of articles referring to "cognitive impairment" and saying it has never been researched. I have a vague recollection that in the early days of the Tahoe research Cheney sent a number of his patients to a psychologist in either LA or San Francisco. I think she may have been called Bastian. She reported specific cognitive deficits. The NIH and CDC were not interested.

The reference was in Oslers Web. I will try and find it. It may take some time.

 

Sheila Bastien

https://www.semanticscholar.org/pap...enry/e50fe3e2ab092ebeb05afb3e3d6955b9d069a0cb

 

A particularly nasty set of gastrointestinal symptoms:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/fam...out-to-be-coronavirus/ar-BB1aLF9E?ocid=ASUDHP

 

Interesting article, but Ysbyty Glan Clwyd is in Denbighshire, not Bangor as it states near the beginning of the article!

 

NYT: Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms

Happens weeks to months after the infection.

 

Interesting. Sounds familiar:

"Dr. Robert Yolken, a neurovirology expert at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said that although people might recover physically from Covid-19, in some cases their immune systems, might be unable to shut down or might remain engaged because of “delayed clearance of a small amount of virus.”

Persistent immune activation is also a leading explanation for brain fog and memory problems bedeviling many Covid survivors, and Emily Severance, a schizophrenia expert at Johns Hopkins, said post-Covid cognitive and psychiatric effects might result from “something similar happening in the brain.”"

 

Don't we already have a working design for wheels?

I am under the impression that all of this has been proposed, by several people/groups, as explanations for some symptoms of ME - but that such explanations have been rejected by 'medicine' as fanciful, unevidenced, rubbish - or 'polite' terms that mean the same thing.

So if it's not seen as a valid explanation for the same symptoms in another condition then why propose it for long covid?

Just as excuse to getting funding/wages for another couple of years of 'research', or as an acceptance that 'medicine' was potentially 'wrong' something that, according to 'medicine', cannot happen.

 

Turns out this thing where professionals can choose to believe or disbelieve certain facts over others is not exactly ideal.

Who knew? Other than anyone who knows anything about science, obviously.

Keep in mind that all this crap about magical psychology predates not only the germ theory of disease but modern medicine, by decades. Another thing that is not exactly ideal: retaining long-debunked myths and fairy tales and using them in common practice.

It's really fortunate that no other field of expertise does that because we'd probably have stuck with DC power transmission or something this absurd. Just get used to regular structure fires, they'd say, it's a normal part of life, they'd say. Or something. It's frankly hard to imagine comparable failure in other fields, they simply cannot happen anymore.

 

More possible symptoms of you-know-what:

Covid toe, rashes and covid tongue: Lesser-known symptoms that could be linked to coronavirus

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/med...oronavirus/ar-BB16LYbY?ocid=ASUDHP&li=AAnZ9Ug

 

I wonder how many of these other symptoms could be due to other opportunistic infections?

I've had unusual oral and ear symptoms for months since a mild respiratory infection in March last year, but it's unlikely I had COVID since it had minimal community circulation over here.

 

I've had similar white coating on tongue for about 3 years. No idea what it is. Assumed it was fungal and tried a few treatments but nothing helps. Haven't seen a physician since so that's another thing on the back burner but it seems pretty common in LC.

And the toes, but far less severe than some of the pictures I have seen, but I assume those would be the worst cases.

So many small things that most of us never mention could finally see enough interest to figure them out. Would be great. I don't think that this explains all MUS but I would be genuinely surprised if it does not explain 80-90% at least. Just the immune system doing its thing, I guess.

 

In kids, first symptoms seem.to be gastro linked. There are increasing numbers of tweets re kids.


https://twitter.com/user/status/1350368310165196802

 

You beat me to it - I only saw this on the news this evening. If they're that cheap, might it be a good idea for pwME to get one (I think they were being distributed free in the Dorset area?) to check what their blood oxygen level actually is, given that it's been hypothesised that the condition might be caused by a low oxygen level? Only, possibly don't panic about going to A&E if your level is lower than "usual" in humans?

 

Be aware that they eat batteries, one every few months even if not used - so before putting away in a draw take the battery out.

They could, at least a couple of days ago, be had for a fiver for a cheap one (direct from China - where they are seemingly all made these days).

After the news announced that everyone should have one, they all seem to have doubled in price, at least, for some reason.

 

I borrowed one for a while.

With warm hands - a rare event - my oxygen levels were always 98-100%.

With cold hands - most of the time - they were below 93% or thereabouts, I don't know how low exactly because that's when the alarm buzzer went off at intolerable volume and I had to switch the device off.

I had a suspicion that might happen which is why I borrowed rather than bought. Some years ago after an operation the nurses ended up disconnecting the monitor because it went off all the time and they decided it was due to my cold hands, not to anything dangerous.

 

Mine arrived today...was easy to use out of the packet , although reading seemed to vary quite a bit ...it seemed to vary a lot from 93 to 97 ..spent more time at 94 than anything else ...reading the leaflet it says that if you have low haemoglobin pulse OI meters not so good ..sigh my haemoglobin is below reference due to low RBC’s (haematocrit consistently always below reference). So I guess it’s not going to be something that works for me. Be good for Mrs and master sloth though.