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ThecoronavirusNever "just disappear", as once someone promised; In fact, he left at least 10% of his victims with a chronic disease that cannever disappear. These people are nicknamed "long lengths" and they haveCap, or post-Covid syndrome, a series of debilitating symptoms that can ruin life. "The most commonly reported long-term symptoms" Long Covid include:CDC-Rad on, and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss these Without signs that you have already had coronavirus.

Fatigue - Not only "drowsiness", but a complete body, soul suckor, energy draining - is the symptom the most common N ° 1 along Covid. "The fatigue that comes with a chronic disease is not just tired or as if you just need a nap," says Tessa Miller, author of the new Essential PaperWhat does'nt kill you, about treating chronic disease. "It takes good and even debilitating, and it can not solve simply by getting a night of sleep or even rest for several days. I always try to explain that yes, the sick people chronically demand as much rest as we say we do it. "

Dr. Anthony FauciCalls for an inability to focus but this may be so worse. "It's a common subject in my support groups to chronic disease," says Miller. "The brain fog can happenDiseases themselves "- Long-covid-" gender or drugs that treat our diseases.One can feel like if you are not completely awake, as if you cross the day, you feel constantly sleepy or in an almost dream state. You can also feel that you have trouble focusing or reminding things, even things that happened recently - and it can make you feel scared, anxious or panicked. You might want not to be able to worry about yourself or your loved ones and that you could normally, and that fantasy is implemented your work and your daily tasks. "

Since COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, the lungs are naturally affected. "Sandy Iskandar nurse says she fell ill with Covid-19 in the summer and now more than six months later, she still meets the side effects of the virus", according toFOX10. "She experiences forgetting, shortness of breath, vertigo and headaches." "It is unpredictable. You can totally be very good for a few days, then suddenly on the third day, you forget how to tie your shoes," she says.

Covidising cough is often dry. Scott Cohen, 48, a retired police doctor from Long Island, N.Y., saysEMS worldThis post-Covid, it has a cough and exacerbation of pre-existing sinusitis. "Over the years, as many first responders, I became desensitized to many things," says Cohen. "I was more concerned about my wife and my children if something happened to me." Now, however: "I remember being serious physical pain, discomfort and an inability to breathe."

"Viral infections are a known cause of acute arthraalgia and arthritis", according to a study ofThe lancet. The way Covid Works "makes plausible that Covid-19 patients can have systemic inflammation characteristics, including viral arthritis," according toNew medical life sciences.

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"I was first ill in February and it was in August that I developed pains in the chest and stitches by my side," says Marina OshanaUC Davis. "You do not want it to happen to you. Do not be complacent. Do what doctors tell you to do - wear a mask and keep your distance from people. You just do not know what could happen."

"If people away from a thing to read my book, I hope it's this: your mind and your body are not two distinct entities," says Miller. "It's a partnership and one in general connected to that. Depression can cause physical symptoms (body pain, headache, stomach pain and other unexplained discomfort) and physical symptoms, especially chronic, can cause a depression. (and very often the depression overlaps with anxiety.) "

"Ah anxiety, my old friend," said Miller. "This is a frequent symptom of chronic disease that I devote an Annex all (above the existing writing in the chapters) to it in the book. The thing that transports you all over the world (your body) has become wild ,. unpredictable, unrecognizable of course, you are anxious! You feel irritable and exhausted, as your mind runs permanently and you can not focus you can not. Sleep, or when you do it, you have nightmares. You isolate your support systems. You try to distract you all the time to avoid being at the base of what make you feel that way. More seriously, you can meet panic attacks, which speaks of experience, feel like literal death. "

Dr. Fauci said long-layers suffer "myalgia", which "describes muscle pain and pain, which can involve ligaments, tendons and fascia, soft tissues connecting muscles, bones and organs." , according toJohns Hopkins.

"Deactivating headaches may persist after the COVID-19 resolution," says a new studySage magazines. Their "migraine as characteristics" are linked to "systemic inflammatory responses. Or, to put it in simple terms, "he felt like a hammer", explains Broadway Danny Burstein stars. You can also have an intermittent fever.

Cardiac palpitations are not rare among long dumpers. Dr. Fauci is also concerned about cardiac inflammation. "It must be repeated in other laboratories and followed," he said theAmerican Heart Association. "But if it is true, it's something we need to follow in the long run up (on). »

"More serious long-term complications seem to be less frequent, but have been reported," says the CDC. " These have been observed to affect different organ systems in the body, including:

• Cardiovascular system: inflammation of the heart muscle
• Respiratory: Anomalies of Pulmonary Function
• Renal: Acute renal lesions
• Dermatological: rashes, hair loss
• Neurological: smell and taste of problems, problems of sleep, difficulties of concentration, memory problems
• Psychiatric: depression, anxiety, mood changes ".

Tell your doctor if you have long Covid symptoms. Although there is no cure, they can be able to treat your symptoms. And look at a support group like that ofBody politic. "Sharing your stories help people," says Miller. "I promise you, and it will help you too. »

Tessa MillerWhat will not you killis available wherever books are sold.