Debilitating symptoms can last long after a person's body has gotten rid of the coronavirus...

[hlthe2b]

Surviving Covid-19 May Not Feel Like Recovery for Some

Debilitating symptoms can last long after a person’s body has gotten rid of the coronavirus, a reality Italians are now confronting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-recovery.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

When Morena Colombi tested negative for the coronavirus on March 16, the official tallies counted her among the Covid-19 recoveries, a success amid the tragedies overwhelming Italy. But she was nowhere near recovered, her cough and crippling fatigue nowhere near gone. Five weeks later, on April 21, she returned to her job developing colors for a cosmetics company, but with shortness of breath and aching muscles, she found herself unable to take even short walks. Another test confirmed that she was no longer infected. But 11 weeks after testing positive, on the same day Italy first quarantined towns, she is still not back to normal. --snip--
“We have seen many cases in which people take a long, long time to recover,” said Alessandro Venturi, the director of the San Matteo hospital in the Lombardy town of Pavia, adding that the discomfort often seems to last even longer for people with lighter symptoms. “It’s not the sickness that lasts for 60 days, it is the convalescence,” he said. “It’s a very long convalescence.”
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Dr. Annalisa Malara, an intensive care physician in Codogno, southeast of Milan, who diagnosed Italy’s first case of the outbreak in February, said there was still no clear understanding of why the virus and its effects lingered so long.

“Lack of energy and the sensation of broken bones” are common, she said, adding that fatigue often lingered “even after the more intense symptoms are gone.”

More at the link if you can get past the paywall.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Not all that unusual-- it took me close to 10 years to shake off the last of the Lyme symptoms.

[hlthe2b]

2. Lyme Disease, like other spirochetal bacterial diseases (e.g., syphilis) can lasting sequela

Relapsing fever and Leptospirosis being others.

This is unusual for most viral syndromes, polio and varicella being exceptions.

[Mariana]

3. My cousin is dealing with this now.

He tested positive about a month ago, after he was sick for a couple of weeks, never bad enough to land him in the hospital. He has lingering shortness of breath and, he says, episodes that resemble asthma attacks, along with fatigue and other problems. He's 44.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. K&R