After I recovered from Covid in June, I am still having bouts of cough that comes from nowhere. I can be OK for days and then suddenly for minutes to an hour, I would keep coughing and then it goes away… This has gone on for the last 4 months. Unless something gets worse I will just have to let it run its course I guess. Strange thing was I was absolutely fine during when I was positive except for extreme tiredness, the cough only sets in vigorously after I tested negative 
Yeah, the actual illness wasn’t too bad, but ever since then I have had almost constant colds, coughs and so on. Very low energy and definite loss of concentration and memory. Sense of taste and smell have not been normal either.
No experience (thankfully) but I believe that getting good sleep, eating well and doing exercise but stopping before you are too fatigued and losing any ‘excess’ weight are the extent of the current recommendations. Something like how you should deal with CFS. The brain fog stuff is particularly worrying as there seems to be some research suggesting that this may be irreversible.
There are lots of studies underway though so perhaps some correlations and treatment possibilities will emerge. Three key ones:
LOCOMOTION: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e063505
EXPLAIN: The Investigation of Pulmonary Abnormalities using Hyperpolarised Xenon Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Long-COVID | medRxiv
PHOSP-COVID: Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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I’ve had a few experiences where I haven’t quite felt present and have struggled for words, but one very scary situation where I started forgetting basic words and then stopped being able to distinguish what I’d actually said and what I’d planned to say. It felt like I was going insane for about an hour or so.
@Bekloppt @gasband Don’t know if there is any cure for long COVID, but I hope & pray that you get back to your best.
Cheers Ifti, I think it’s a slow process. Luckily I do have plenty of opportunity to rest.
In the last few days of having covid back in early July my elbow ,shoulder and hips joints all became painful to one degree or another .While my hips are now fine and my shoulders still feel a little sore,i have regular pain and weakness in my elbow joints.
My doctor has said he’s sure its tendonitis but when i asked is it possible to get that in all my joints at the same time he said it was unlikely,so we’ve put it down to being from covid as there doesn’t appear to be any other reason.
When i asked how long it would take to go he said it could take up to 18mths.
Valuable new piece on the current state of Covid therapies
Therapeutic advances in COVID-19 | Nature Reviews Nephrology.
One of the weirdest memes we’ve seen since 2020 is the support of produces like Hydroxycloroquin and Ivermectin, ideas that were not propped up on the basis of their supposed effectiveness, but on the demonstrably false claims that the medical community were not researching therapies nor were they interested in finding value in existing therapies.
This figure shows not just the number of repurposed therapies that have been demonstrated as effective but how soon in the pandemic studies were initiated with them
Video from Dr John Campbell discussing the latest Vitamin D studies. As he says, why isn’t this being shouted from the rooftops.
Link to the study as well.
The issue is there is a substantial discrepancy in the perceived value of Vit D supplementation between clinicians vs those who like talking about science. The role of Vit D in physiology is really complicated, with it involved in multitudes of pathways, and that lends itself to being part of compelling narratives about its importance. But the actual clinical value of normalizing values via supplementation tends not to produce much in the way of measurable clinical benefit when tested in a rigorous way. This make sense when you view it as a negative acute phase reactant…something that decreases in response to injury or illness, rather than something where low values cause these illnesses. This explains its robust and widespread correlation with various disease traits and its disappointing usefulness as a therapy across a wide range of conditions.
These are some really valuable takes on what Vit D is and what its clinical usefulness is
Of course, that doesnt mean you should ignore new data just because you’re skeptical of the value of a Tx, but what would those data need to look like to change your mind? Well, it wouldnt be this study. It is a retrospective cohort trial not an RCT. It uses a LOT of statistical manipulation of their data and doesnt give details of what they did or why those decisions were made. It doesnt measure supplementation per se, only Rx. It is a nuanced difference, but this doesnt tell us about associations with supplementation, it tells us about associations with the being Rxed by their Dr. Given this is typically Rxed after patient request rather than because it is clinically indicated, there is a significant cohort bias in play (people who prusue the Rx vs people who dont). We dont even know what the Rx did to the patients Vit D levels.
Basically, this sort of study is at best a hypothesis generating finding, but we’re at the point in the pandemic where the hypothesis has been tested. There are some indications of positive value, but the answer isnt clear. But that in itself is a valuable answer because with as much as this has been studied the lack of a strong beneficial signal is relevent.
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guess who got the Rona when traveling back east to see family over Christmas?
Your second bout, no? Or third?
for sure, #2. unfortunately some of the wife’s family/friends were also sick. we were at four different houses in 6 days so a bit of an awkward mess for everyone who got it because nobody knows who had it first.
Both my kids caught Covid, but me and my wife have managed to avoid it.
She did run the house like a prison. Kids confined to bedrooms. When they went to bathroom it was with masks on.
My house smelt like a hospital but hoping to get through the pandemic without ever catching it.
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my 8yo son has managed to miss getting it though my 2x and my wife’s last year. kid has the immune system of a god. 
More likely got it and was asymptomatic. I strongly suspect I had it this July, but with minimal symptoms - basically felt like a cold for a day, and isolated for 5 just in case. No way the rapid test was going to pick it up.
Also known as… his immune system is a god. took one look at the bug entering his system and squashed it. He didn’t slow down the whole trip, wanted to have dance parties in the living room and everything. We sent him back to school today.
surprisingly my wife’s rapid test picked it up in her system yesterday, I stopped taking cold meds yesterday and am paying for that decision today.
Aren’t you two lovely dovey 
Take care and get well soon.
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Mazaroui has returned to Bayern and has been diagnosed with pericarditis after coming down with Covid during the world cup. He missed the QF because of it but they rushed him back for the semi, but he was hauled off at half time. He’s now going to miss a month or more once the season resumes, and as a likely consequence of not the infection per se, but returning to activity too soon after infection.
watching the anti-vax horde blow up social media over the Damar Hamlin incident has been fucking annoying to read.