Sure it is essential to differentiate between those who have been tested for COVID and that self-reporting which, in the absence of a test, is another information source.
To repeat my experience of becoming ill in the time of COVID 19: I couldn’t get a test in July 2020; I don’t know whether it was COVID-19 that hit me like a speeding train. I still have cognitive difficulties, severe fatigue, continuous headaches, lack of taste and smell, and other new things which have gone wrong physically. I’m waiting for the latest results of brain/spine MRI; I’m without a diagnosis. My reading suggests M.E., encephalitis, Long COVID and possibly lots of things—continued testing thus far provides no answer. I’ve also learned about FND and can see how these symptoms could, in the absence of an actual biomarker, be put under that umbrella.
To have one’s symptoms acknowledged matters. Losing one’s fundamental abilities to function is so devastating; reading that such symptom clusters are deemed psychosomatic seems, to the afflicted, unhelpful.
Sure it is essential to differentiate between those who have been tested for COVID and that self-reporting which, in the absence of a test, is another information source. To repeat my experience of becoming ill in the time of COVID 19: I couldn’t get a test in July 2020; I don’t know whether it was COVID-19 that hit me like a speeding train. I still have cognitive difficulties, severe fatigue, continuous headaches, lack of taste and smell, and other new things which have gone wrong physically. I’m waiting for the latest results of brain/spine MRI; I’m without a diagnosis. My reading suggests M.E., encephalitis, Long COVID and possibly lots of things—continued testing thus far provides no answer. I’ve also learned about FND and can see how these symptoms could, in the absence of an actual biomarker, be put under that umbrella. To have one’s symptoms acknowledged matters. Losing one’s fundamental abilities to function is so devastating; reading that such symptom clusters are deemed psychosomatic seems, to the afflicted, unhelpful.