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By now, most people are familiar with this conditions troika of persistent fatigue, short breath, and the vague cognitive issue known as brain fog. Like the word recovered, this too-brief litanyuntil very recently echoed by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionconceals much more than it explains. The stories cataloged on the proliferating number of online long hauler support groups dont describe nagging tiredness or grogginess of the sort to which we can all relate. They describe a debilitating symptomatological clown car that is possibly unique in the annals of human disease. We used to say TB, sarcoid, and syphilis were the three conditions that could give you just about anything, Trisha Greenhalgh, Oxford professor of primary care, told the British Medical Journal podcast in August. And I think Covid can[, too]. It can give you just about every symptom in the book.

In many cases, these severe fatigue and cognitive issues resemble myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS, a little-understood multisymptom syndrome that can, in extreme cases, result in immobility verging on full-body paralysis. Many long haulers also suffer symptoms associated with a general malfunction of the nervous system, known as dysautonomia, that can find expression in every bodily system and organ. The systemwide nature of Long Covid can make it difficult to isolate, or even keep track of; manifestations include muscle, joint, back, and nerve pain, racing pulse, fever, chest pain, chills, insomnia, fibrosis, headaches, blurred vision, tremors, pounding and ringing in the ears, memory loss, kidney problems, gastrointestinal pain and dysfunction, palpitations, high glucose, low oxygen, cough, blood pressure swings, and traveling blood clots. Some long haulers experience unstoppable nose runs of bloody, yellow mucus; all manner of rashes, hives, and discolorations; and olfactory disorders that make everything taste like rotten meat and metal, in the words of one long hauler. (One rare exception appears to be Dr Pepper, which has emerged as a Long Covid folk remedy.) Many develop an inability to stand without dizziness, known as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Heavy hair loss is common, leading many long haulers to shave their heads.

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