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by eldritch_4ier 1235 days ago
Are there any physiological or biological signatures for Long Covid? Is there any objective way to diagnose?

The symptoms of Long Covid are so vague and our recent work so wacky, you could use the same criteria used to diagnose Long Covid to diagnose "Long Lockdowns Syndrome" with all the same vague symptoms.
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BizarreByte 1235 days ago
> The symptoms of Long Covid are so vague

They’re often worse than that. A lady was interviewed on Radio 1 a few days ago and she had recorded over 100 (!) symptoms in herself that she attributed to long COVID.

The fun part of the story was she was never diagnosed with COVID at any point since 2020. She assumed when she got sick in March of 2020 it was COVID and that’s when her problems began.

Everything about her story pointed strongly to serious mental health issues, but she completely rejected even the idea that was possible.

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runemadsen 1235 days ago
There is lots and lots of research into the similarities of Long Covid and other post-viral illnesses despite the fact that people only recently started reporting these symptoms:

"This study supports prior findings that ME/CFS occurs with high prevalence among those who have persistent COVID-19 symptoms." - https://www.mdpi.com/2035-8377/15/1/1

Long Covid symptoms are not vague. If you argue this, you have not done enough research into what people are battling. A majority of Long Covid haulers suffer from PEM (Post Exertional Malaise) which is a primary symptom of ME/CFS, and even thought research on this subject has been performed for decades, We currently don't understand what causes it. There are many theories for ME/CFS which could fit well with Long Covid, including an activation of the Epstein-Barr virus which causes neuroinflammation, and if this neuroinflammation primarily centers on the brain, it explains all the symptoms that people are reporting.

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minsight 1235 days ago
There are: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
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joshjje 1235 days ago
Fibromyalgia is a similar issue and I'm sure there are hundreds of others, our understanding of the human body still has a long way to go.
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