[BestGuess]

For real? Seems to me like the brain damage and stuff from the infection is pretty simple to understand so that'd be pretty real. From a sorta minimum idea thing that seems like the most solid and easy to understand long-term damage right? Easy to test too, I reckon. Why would people think that isn't real?

[adamlgerber]

Because Long Covid is not a scientific term in the way most people use it.

I've had many family members refer to having long covid because they had a persistent stuffy nose for a few months. Prob virus related to some degree but the looseness of the language makes invites skepticism.

Also some people also love being very vocal about any possible pathology they might have as a political position. Just invites more skepticism.

[conductr]

I'm kind of one of those people. I'm a medical layman and saying "long covid" is kind of a meme/joke. I know it's not real long covid as some people are battling much harsher consequences from having had covid.

But, what I'm trying to say in my layman way is, I feel like I get sick differently after having covid. It's more frequent and lasts way longer. I'm currently at the tail end of a ~4 week long "cold" during which it felt like I'd improve/regress each week and it varied from my being completely functional to having fairly bedridden days. It was all just a "common cold", I think; who knows I might have had covid again (I'm not getting tested each time I get sick any more). These "colds" have been happening roughly every 3-6 months the last couple years since I got covid. Prior to that, I'd get sick only about once a year and sometimes 2-3 times without getting sick. Duration of sickness previously was typically 3-5 days, very rarely ever >1 week. Not sure if it's related, but the time of year is off too. I almost never got sick in the summer months before. Where I live it's been above 100F most of the past several weeks and typically I get sick in shoulder season months (Nov-Dec / Feb-Mar for my locale).

[BestGuess]

Thanks for the info I haven't come across it as the post I responded to said around here. Just missed the discussions I guess plus I'm kinda new. I understand not liking how a term gets used yeah, creates more misunderstandings and myths. I gotcha.