Thousands of us have what the papers call “long-tail Covid”. I’m on two online sites and it’s generally people our age, often really fit to start with but who’ve been hit hard with the virus and maybe secondary infections - they’re saying possibly 5-10% - and generally didn’t end up in hospital.
It lingers and comes back again, every couple of weeks for me. It’s scary - you start over again.
AIBU to have hoped the NHS would have come up with guidance on this? GPs, with no basis anyone can work out, are (this is the 60s bit) handing out anti-depressants like sweets to us, calling it anxiety and ignoring our descriptions. What on earth is this about and why isn’t it negligence?
We need support, and research into what’s happening - there’ll be many thousands more soon. (For what it’s worth, around the three month mark lots of us started getting better, but till then it was basically stay in bed and hope for a decent employer.....)
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