Re:What causes Long Covid? Here are the three leading theories
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:31AM
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While what you state is undoubtedly true regarding reporting I think it’s fair to say that there is a defined pattern of people reporting a constant constellation of symptoms in medicine, being dismissed as hypochondriacs, and then only later being validated for having legitimate claims when a researcher eventually connects the dots. CFS is an example - broad, and just nebulous enough for physicians to be technically dismissive because it doesn’t match up with an existing diagnosis.
As someone who deals with health anxiety and psychogenic symptoms regularly, the mention of it does not inherently deny the reality of immediate pathologies and symptoms existing also.
There can be a genuine residual disorder initiated by covid infection and also a clouding of its prevalence and presentation by psychogenic symptoms. In fact, it’s very hard to imagine otherwise.
It’s a hard problem to sort out medicinally, culturally, politically, and personally — going hard to either end doesn’t help on any measure.