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Re:Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – ne... by scarface74 on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:27AM (#24305246)
Not Covid related, but something happened to me around 2012. Pre-2012,I was a part time fitness instructor and runner with slight exercised induced asthma but it was controllable.

I went into the hospital for a week for severe asthma, has coughing spells for a year and my lungs haven’t been right since. It’s not as bad and I can do some level of resistance exercise, but I never fully recovered.

I’m paranoid about getting Covid. I know how terrifying it is not to be able to breathe and how irritating it is not to be able to do slight strenuous day to day activities without giving out of breathe for a couple of years afterward.

Re:Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – ne... by altgeek on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:55AM (#24305616)
Get an MD with environmental medicine credentials to test you for mold exposure (quick googling comes up with https://selfhack.com/blog/c4a/)

I was exposed twice to high mold spore environment; it was an enclosed space on a neglected boat. I still feel it two years later.

Re:Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – ne... by corpMaverick on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:10PM (#24306600)
You made me wonder if Oral antifungal drugs may be effective. Like the ones used for toe nail fungus.
Re:Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – ne... by notabee on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:28AM (#24306006)
I can relate to this story. Went through something similar, though with different symptoms. Just never recovered completely after an illness, even after years. No definite or discernable cause. There seem to be lots of triggers for latent autoimmune issues and other inflammatory problems. I think that there are also lots of things like novel species-hopping viruses that randomly get a few people but never become contagious enough to turn into pandemics. It's not like doctors have or use tests to identify most viruses, unless it's the flu or a pandemic. The one silver lining to Covid is that perhaps more research will go into these "long haul" illnesses that result from viral infections or other traumas.