Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?
I would say there is more chance of them (sadly) telling you to go home, take a couple of paracetamol and get some rest. Or if you're lucky, they might mis-diagnose you with something else....
(No first-hand experience here, just going by one or two anecdotal stories I've heard on the grapevine)
> Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?
Well let’s think about why. You’ve got an illness (Long COVID) that you can’t detect and manifests itself in a myriad of ways, most of which are very vague and subjective (“brain fog” or “I can’t exercise as much as I used to”) and also not detectable.
Is it any wonder doctors might think of it as today’s fibromyalgia?
Ironic perhaps that Fibromylgia has been chosen given there are tests for the small fibre neuropathy that causes and it now has a firm diagnostic pathway.
The same will happen for Long Covid and ME/CFS, the diagnostics are there in research, they even show up in scans and tests that can be run in healthcare systems today, its just there is a resistance to run them.
Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?
I would say there is more chance of them (sadly) telling you to go home, take a couple of paracetamol and get some rest. Or if you're lucky, they might mis-diagnose you with something else....
(No first-hand experience here, just going by one or two anecdotal stories I've heard on the grapevine)