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Re: Re: PostCovid or non-existent
By: AllyMac Date: February 8, 2022, 7:03 am
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For those of you who wish to believe that this is "just a cold",
I'll tell you my story and let you make your own minds up.
I had my first vaccine in February 2021 and my second in May
2021. In August, I PCR tested positive for COVID and then 10
days later, tested negative. At the time, I had just a sore
throat and achy knees, so I thought I got away with it fairly
lightly.
In November, I developed a severe case of pneumonia (both lungs,
upper and lower), which resulted in me being hospitalised for a
week, on oxygen therapy (at one stage, they were discussing
intubating me) and intravenous antibiotics. I caught a secondary
pseudomona bug whilst in hospital and was treated for that with
several courses of another antibiotic. Given my previous medical
history and state of health, the risk of any of this happening
should have been extremely low.
I have not been back to work since the end of November as I have
good days and bad days and so I was referred to see a
respiratory consultant privately mid-January, as I wanted to get
to the bottom of why I still felt so ill. After various CT
scans, lung function tests, blood tests etc, I had my follow-up
consultation yesterday. Turns out that my mild case of COVID
wasn't so mild and that I actually had developed COVID pneumonia
back in August, and because my body was coping well with the
inflammation, it didn't impact on my daily life. When I then
caught a bacterial infection in November, my body went into
over-drive, hence I ended up in hospital, seriously ill, for a
week.
My CT scans show that the "mild" COVID infection, which turned
out not to be so mild in the end, has left me with
bronchiectasis (lung damage) and has triggered asthma. My
respiratory consultant advised me yesterday that they are now
coming across more and more patients like myself, who are
generally healthy and who are now presenting in hospital with
serious chest infections, as a result of damage caused by the
previous "mild COVID" infection.
Given my recent experience, I would say under-estimate COVID at
your peril.
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Re: Re: PostCovid or non-existent
By: Bod Date: September 16, 2022, 5:49 pm
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It was all a pantomime
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