Basically we all started smoking again Things that poison small blood vessels turn out to be bad for health, who knew etc - ThreadSky

dfisman.bsky.social • 28 days ago

Basically we all started smoking again

Things that poison small blood vessels turn out to be bad for health, who knew etc

Reposted from Betty C. Jung

Long COVID Impairs Exercise Capacity and Cognition for Years - neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-c... via @neurosciencenew

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davenlsn.bsky.social•28 days ago

Long covid here, since 2020.

Used to run 60 km weekly

Now I can only walk and must keep my pulse under about 85 or it hammers me.

ms2jla1.bsky.social•28 days ago

How awful. Was just speaking with a friend yesterday who’s going through the same thing. She’s slowly making progress though - I hope you will too ❤️

davenlsn.bsky.social•28 days ago

Thanks.

dfisman.bsky.social•28 days ago

I’m really sorry
That’s devastating

davenlsn.bsky.social•28 days ago

Thanks but mostly feeling better if I don't exert myself. So I get by. Had to learn to move slowly, take the elevator not the stairs etc. constant sore throat that never goes away.

But I know that some feel it worse.

mondoab.bsky.social•28 days ago

Air pollution also causes cognitive issues.

Double whammy.

adamboyle.bsky.social•28 days ago

My body is protected by a thick layer of microplastics

throneonbeach.bsky.social•28 days ago

This here might explain some of the popularity of cons & gop fascists …

Although reversible, but also a further complicating triple whammy condition #WhiteSupremacyCausesBrainDamage

drdavidkeegan.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is exactly how I've been describing it to my patients. When you're at 3 covid infections, it's like smoking 2-3 packs a day for the rest of your life.

amandahcarroll.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is how my FTM doctor described the risks I have after having preeclampsia 3x. It’s the main reason why my family still takes precautions like masking everywhere.

dfisman.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes. I can’t like that but I agree

drdavidkeegan.bsky.social•23 days ago

And then for all of us who have been careful with mitigations but got covid anyways, it's like we have ongoing massive second hand smoke exposure.

dilborg.bsky.social•23 days ago

The lack of being careful with mitigation measures by significant others is closer to, having a sexually promiscuous partner who doesn't wear a condom. But if that analogy ever went viral, all of everyone would be saying "HIV is just the flu".

dilborg.bsky.social•23 days ago

The "second hand smoke" analogy is certainly more appropriate and acceptable.

hollychessman.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is a really good comparison and one that I think people will understand. And it sucks for those of us that keep getting it despite being as cautious as possible.

tarahfx.bsky.social•28 days ago

📌

mummers.bsky.social•28 days ago

You're more right about the smoking bit than you may know:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200720/Involvement-of-nicotine-receptors-in-COVID-19.aspx

budya.bsky.social•27 days ago

And you learn to cope with it.

mummers.bsky.social•27 days ago

There is a potential irony here where the people complaining COVID's not so bad may be smokers

Who by vagaries of chance may be occupying all of their nicotinogenic receptors with their drug of choice

budya.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'm no smoker nor have issues relating to Covid-19 in my brain. I do have chronic small vessel ischaemia, perhaps have had it for a long time associated with left side neuropathy.

Despite being the world's worst whinger, you just keep going. I do have my moments.

dfisman.bsky.social•28 days ago

🙏

lisaloveglobal.bsky.social•27 days ago

TY! I'm just at the one hour a day out of bed stage and am deliriously excited. Will read.

lesliekasza.bsky.social•27 days ago

Ummmm, a funny looking Magyar Gaelic lunatic has been yelling into the void about this for a few years now. Among more than a few others, but still a very small group.:((

francienh9.bsky.social•28 days ago

And people tell you that you have an anxiety disorder when you try not to inhale the smoke.

francienh9.bsky.social•28 days ago

And when you tell people that they are smoking and that it is bad for their health, they will tell you that death is part of life, and that they want to enjoy life, even if it means that it will be shorter. Very much the same as in smokers.

amber2024.bsky.social•23 days ago

I felt a million times better when smoking than I have with long Covid. Smoking never took me to rock bottom. Long Covid has, and even after it ended, anything that affects my health takes me back there very fast. I’m getting tired of it. It takes months for my body to repair after a big hit.

amber2024.bsky.social•23 days ago

It then takes more months of very slow exercise gain before I get back to my normal levels. Just eating a food I have an intolerance to, letting myself get too cold, over doing exercise, or staying up too late, is enough to trigger it and put me at rock bottom again. 😩

amber2024.bsky.social•23 days ago

And that’s not counting that my autoimmune disease is triggered more easily now, or that it seems to have triggered osteoarthritis, so I can barely walk, even when I have energy and benefits from exercise.

j071h11.bsky.social•27 days ago

📌

adybee.bsky.social•27 days ago

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