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Default May 22, 2021 at 02:27 PM
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My own case is far less dramatic. However: I contracted COVID in November of last year at age 38. I am a non smoker, I exercise very regularly, and got 8 hours of sleep at night. I was on no medications for chronic conditions at that point. I took a vitamin D supplement. I was healthy. I had an infection that was miserable but not terrible; fevers, body aches all over, fatigue. I was sick for ten days. On day 8 I developed gastrointestinal symptoms. Nausea, intermittent vomiting, loss of appetite, early satiety (feeling full after having only a few bites of food). Abdominal cramps. I had NO GI conditions prior to my illness. I've lost ten pounds and I am now underweight. And you're going to claim that we don't know that COVID caused this? really? It's funny, because the gastroenterologist who evaluated me actually diagnosed me with post-viral gastroparesis secondary to COVID. My primary care physician who's known me for ten years and my boss (also a medical doctor) also concur with the diagnosis. But.....we don't know that it's from COVID. Sure
This fascinates me. My 31-year-old daughter-in-law has recently been diagnosed with gastroparesis secondary to COVID. She actually had COVID twice, has developed severe chronic asthma and gastroparesis. Poor things can't eat without getting sick. She's miserable.
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Default May 27, 2021 at 05:26 PM
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There is a member of this forum who has a close friend, he caught covid and the lasting effect for him has been psychosis - probably due to swelling of the brain. Sound fun?

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Default May 27, 2021 at 10:05 PM
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Doctors regularly see high levels of anxiety in COVID patients, even those whose symptoms aren’t all that severe otherwise. People who develop panic attacks who never previously had them - a teacher friend of mine had this happen. In severe patients like my husband, the added factor of truly not being able to breathe creates its own level of serious anxiety.
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