From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid
On 2025-12-23, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher writes:
>> On 23/12/2025 19:38, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> I wish I could say that i am doing better but it seems that the
>>> whole day of surgery and repair has exhaberated my Chronic Exhaustion
>>> and I am so, so worn out by the activities of daily living that it is a
>>> relief to sit down and type for a bit.
>>> Usually when I have over-exerted myself I get sick with influenza
>>> like symptoms but I am just so tired that it is hard to believe.
>>>
>> BTDTGTTS...
>>
>> My last operation fucked me up for over a year with similar symptoms.
>>
>>> If you every have a 'flu like illness and find that your get
tired on
>>> resuming your normal activities for the sake of your health get more
>>> rest and be very careful of exertion. This may or may not prevent the
>>> post virual fatigue syndrome but I had never heard of such a problem
>>> in my years of nursing. So I went out and started to exercise again and
>>> soon I was reduced to very little activity. That was when I was 46 yoa
>>> and I am now 88 yoa and can barely take care of myself.
>>> bliss
>>
>> You may have some undiagnosed viral illness or even a depressed immune
>> system due to some cancer or other.
>
> I think the long-term impacts of viral infections are becoming clearer
> and clearer. Post-polio syndrome has been reported since at least the
> 1980s. Long COVID is well known. Epstein-Barr virus has been
> statistically connected to MS (although I don’t think anyone’s figured
> out what the mechanism is yet) and more recently Lupus.
>
> Personally I’ve got lucky so far. But I know four people with MS and
> one of my coworkers spent years struggling with long COVID, with
> Bobbie’s description above matching their experience. (Another coworker
> went long-term sick around the same time but I don’t have the inside
> track on what’s up with them.)
I do get the impression that there are some patterns arising out of
"Long COVID" that seem to match what I've seen before SARS-CoV-2 was a
thing, and that there might be something out there.
Now COVID-19 could have been a good excuse not only to improve
societies' reaction to illness (mask when sick, improve sick leave, and
so on), but also to understand these post-infection scenarios better and
at least take them into account somehow.
Sadly, we know this was grabbed by political extremists that are undoing
the little advances that were achieved during the early years of the
pandemic.
(I'm happy to move this to alt.unix.geeks if there's any reply.)
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Nuno Silva
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