Could long COVID finally make us take chronic pain seriously?

The Hill ^ | 09/14/2022 | MARTHA NOLAN

[ChicagoConservative27]

Chronic pain is not a topic that comes up often in casual conversation. But, maybe it should — because millions of Americans live with it every day. In fact, this condition, which causes sufferers to experience protracted and often debilitating pain for weeks, months or even years, affects about 20 percent of American adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That comes to roughly 50 million people. The prevalence of chronic pain has also led to nearly $300 billion in lost productivity annually.

Since September happens to be chronic pain awareness month, it’s an especially important time to start talking about this common and arduous condition. And as we enter the endemic phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s also critical to consider how it relates to long COVID, which is quickly emerging as an urgent public health concern. Not surprisingly, the two conditions are linked since joint, muscle and nerve pain, chest pain, stomach pain, headaches and more are common symptoms of lingering post-COVID illness.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The heck is long covid??

[1Old Pro]

The heck is long covid??

Laziness

[2banana]

Size matters?

[bray]

It can be cured with Ivermectin so apparently we will not take it seriously.

[SubMareener]

My wife and I are part of the 70% of people who try the Relief Factor “quick start” offer who re-order. This stuff really works.
https://www.relieffactor.com/

[lee martell]

It is the uninvited guest that never seems to leave.

[bak3r]

An convenient way to transition from “extended unemployment” to “disability”.

[Gen.Blather]

Long term COVID is when a low grade infection starts in an organ, often the bowels. Your body can’t defeat it. Your body uses the Kreb cycle as the basis for all of your energy. Every cell converts ADP to ATP. The transition from ATP back to ADP fuels everything your body does. I beat my Long Term COVID after two years of exhaustion. I used L Tryptophan and B vitamins to fill up the ATP deficit. Took about a month. (Adenosine Triphosphate to Adenosine Diphosphate.). Your mileage may vary. Don’t take medical advice off the internet.

My doctor never diagnosed it. I have been right before. “I’m telling you it’s a kidney stone.”. “No, it’s a nerve issue.”. “Okay, here’s the kidney stone.”

[The Fop]

Well long haul COVID’s from the spike protein
in the poison vax Uncle John never needed
yeah baby, oh baby, woooo, baby
have some blood clots tonight

[jerod]

They have already determined that ‘Long Covid’ is directly associated with psychological trauma... I.E. Everybody who has it also has ‘mental’ problems... Most of them are likely hypochondriacs who believe every malady that affects them is related to their getting Covid, or their Covid injection.

[mewzilla]

Vaxx related injuries.

[Political Junkie Too]

Before the vaccines were available, "long COVID" referred to people who progressed to the ICU and ventilators after several weeks in the hospital. Scientists correlated "long COVID" to glutathione deficiency and oxidative stress in elderly patients, which could have been easily corrected with a zinc/quercetin and NAC treatment.

Now, the meaning of "long COVID" is being changed to mean whatever the LAAP-dog media needs it to be for the upcoming mid-term elections. In the current context, "long COVID" seems to refer to more campaign giveaways.

From their press materials by The Squad (Ayanna Pressley):

• Prioritizing funding for health providers that plan to engage medically underserved populations and populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19;
• Ensuring that treatment is not denied based on insurance coverage, date or method of diagnosis, or previous hospitalization;

So you don't even have to prove that you had COVID-19, you just have to come from a "medically underserved population" and say you had COVID.

-PJ

[EQAndyBuzz]

I went through this for almost two months. Fatigue, stomach issues, headaches, dizziness and panic attacks. Sad thing is it hits people with possible mental illness the toughest because they cannot deal with the chronic symptoms and then their mind takes over. Came very close to eating my gun, but I had the sense to know it’s the illness talking. Told my bud what part of the lake my firearms went overboard(hate when that happens.)

I changed my meds, took a regimen of C, B12, COQ10, Zinc, D3, a probiotic and drank Boost every morning. Started exercising and gave up food that’s in the middle aisles of the supermarket. Lost 50 pounds, can walk 3-4 miles at a time, and my mind is sharper than ever. I also increased my relationship with the Lord as well as had a check up from the neck up.

Basically I healed my mind, body and soul.

[Magnatron]

There’s no such thing as Long Covid.

There’s long slugabouts...

There’s long lazybutts...

There’s long slackers...

There’s long hypochondriacs...

But there’s no long Covid.