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wow how awful and incredibly unfortunate for her. i hope she recovers in due course
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Holy fuck, that's awful. The stress that she'll be under right now will be making matters ten times worse. I hope she manages to get appropriate support at the right time.
Always surprises me that so few people think about long COVID, but I guess most people just don't take post-viral sequelae seriously or even realise that it happens/how life-changing they can be until it happens to them or someone close to them (and even then, it seems to be 50/50). It ain't minor.
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For all the sharing of experience stuff, I had it after being triple jabbed and am fine, it was mildly unpleasant while I had it. My wife got it nearly a year ago after 1 jab, this morning I've sat with her through an ESA and benefits compliance phone call because she struggles to remember things and talk properly, after small efforts she's stuttering more than taking so the calls took a while, they were in relation to an OU course she'd started pre covid and if the grants should affect the paltry benefits she gets. She got a distinction in her early modules but the last few have been cut down by the very helpful tutor to the bare minimum to hopefully get enough points to pass and defer until she can hopefully think again. Long covid has caused idiopathic intracranial hypertension, she's been generally pretty fucked since covid but after an eye appointment because she though she needed her prescription changing at the start of the year they picked up on the IIH. She had to suffer though a bunch of failed lumber punctures to confirm things, can't take a pressure reducing medication because of possible heart complications and the other treatment is an epilepsy medication that will hopefully mask the pain enough that she can lose some weight as that's apparently something to do with it, a side effect of that med can be increased pressure. There's an operation they apparently won't do until vision loss is at a certain amount (she's lost a fair bit already but it's like 70%), but that loss can likely be permanent at that point, seems very fucking stupid to wait. She's in a support group with thousands of people suffering the same, some have lost 5 or 6 stone and are at the lower end of their recommended BMI, most have said symptoms are the same or worse.
So you know, swings and roundabouts really.