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sc_rufctr · 12:59 AM

I'm still here... I'm getting better and I've had one unexpected outcome:

My Tinnitus has reduced intensity. It's still there but it's like someone turned down the volume.

Bill Douglas · 07-16-2022, 12:17 AM

Are you coughing Peter? That seems to be the main complaint with the latest covid variant.

About day 12 for me and I'm fairly much OK but I get tired too soon.

sc_rufctr · 07-16-2022, 12:58 AM

Yes coughing. That's the worst thing about this.

Bill Douglas · 07-16-2022, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Yes coughing. That's the worst thing about this.

Darn

Probably about night number two I had real trouble breathing. My throat had closed up, probably a lot to do with the coughing and raw throat, then phlegm was cutting off my breathing. So I got almost no sleep that night lying on a strange angle to keep an airway open. Sounds a bit dramatic, but it was only one night, and breathing has been fine ever since.

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Glad things are working their way through. Feel better soon Bill and Peter.

island911 · 07-16-2022, 08:12 AM

Prior to this China virus, 20-something percent of colds (IIRC) had been corona viruses.

This China lab corona virus now adds to that as it has moved from epidemic to endemic. - Most of us have had it already and fully expect you all to get through this just a bit annoyed.

sc_rufctr · 07-16-2022, 09:58 AM

Just again...

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My Tinnitus has reduced intensity.

Totally unexpected.

sc_rufctr · 07-18-2022, 04:30 AM

So anyway I'm a whole lot better and my tinnitus now is what I would describe as "1". It was around an 8 or 9 before all of this.... I don't know what to say except that this is one of the best things that happened to me in over 10 years!

Woo

Bill Douglas · 07-18-2022, 04:44 PM

Update for Peter and other members of the covid club.

GF has a friend very much in the know, and she says take it easy for a month. If you start hard working/exercising any sooner you risk getting long covid.

I'm thinking I should fairly much be OK LOL

sc_rufctr · 07-19-2022, 12:21 AM

A month? Who's got time for that?

Bill Douglas · 07-19-2022, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

A month? Who's got time for that?

Phone your boss/friends/anyone, and say random guy on the internet said he knows what he's talking about and I can't do anything today that is more strenuous than drinking coffee in a nice cafe at the beach?

island911 · 07-19-2022, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Update for Peter and other members of the covid club.

GF has a friend very much in the know, and she says take it easy for a month. If you start hard working/exercising any sooner you risk getting long covid.

I'm thinking I should fairly much be OK LOL

While I agree it's good to take it easy for at least 3 weeks, the long covid thing has been studied and found to be unrelated to covid. -just coincidental ailments, so the study says. Which is good.

Bill Douglas · 07-19-2022, 04:27 PM

That's good.

island911 · 07:48 PM

fwiw, I went looking for that study - can't find it. :-/

I did find lots of Why you should fear long covid type articles.

Stuff from "you may have it and not know it" to "employers need to account for long covid"

ooh, "A Tsunami of Long Covid Awaits Us"

Lots of money selling fear.

island911 · 08:00 PM

Here we go...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/974572

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962479 (nice video here)

Get this..

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There was no statistical difference in pulmonary function (spirometry, lung volume, etc.), and no statistical differences in any of the cardiovascular tests (echocardiograms, etc.) But the median distance walked in a six-minute walking test was lower for the post-Covid patients as compared to the controls (560 meters versus 595). But even then, the changes in walking distance did not correlate with PASC symptoms. The only variables in patient histories and so on that correlated with a greater likelihood of showing PASC were being female or having a self-reported history of anxiety disorders, but as you can see from the above, nothing really tracked at the biochemical level.

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Essentially the test tracked people who actually had covid and control people who were told that they had covid. The people who did not have covid (but told that they did) reported 'long covid" more so than people who actually had covid.