the belief in having had COVID-19 infection was associated with 15 of 18 categories of persistent symptoms
Long COVID seems to be mostly based on self-reporting by people who think they might have it. The study found no correlation with an actual infection and most symptoms.
Many of the people who reported having long COVID weren't even infected. Only half of the people who reported having had COVID actually had anti bodies.
a positive serology test result remained positively associated only with anosmia
This seems to be the only long-term symptom they could directly tie to an actual infection.
That’s exactly how it was for me when I had Covid.
I remembered reading articles about “healthy 20-somethings” mysteriously collapsing from stokes and heart attacks months after recovering from covid. While I didn’t really believe them, it was very hard to completely discard them. That anxiety made me experience “real” symptoms even when I knew it was all in my head.
Absolutely. The older I get, the more I am able to recognize it and handle it. The best way to tell it’s just anxiety is if your “symptoms” vanish while you’re preoccupied.
At work: Perfectly fine all day long.
Lying down to sleep: “Am I having a heart attack right now?”
Long COVID seems to be mostly based on self-reporting by people who think they might have it. The study found no correlation with an actual infection and most symptoms.
Many of the people who reported having long COVID weren't even infected. Only half of the people who reported having had COVID actually had anti bodies.
This seems to be the only long-term symptom they could directly tie to an actual infection.
That’s exactly how it was for me when I had Covid.
I remembered reading articles about “healthy 20-somethings” mysteriously collapsing from stokes and heart attacks months after recovering from covid. While I didn’t really believe them, it was very hard to completely discard them. That anxiety made me experience “real” symptoms even when I knew it was all in my head.
Fuck I hate being a hypochondriac, lol.
Absolutely. The older I get, the more I am able to recognize it and handle it. The best way to tell it’s just anxiety is if your “symptoms” vanish while you’re preoccupied.
At work: Perfectly fine all day long. Lying down to sleep: “Am I having a heart attack right now?”