Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Yeah, I'm registered with a Long Covid clinic but recently everything they planned to do to assess me further has stuttered to a halt, presumably under the weight of cases. In the meantime the clinic doctor wouldn't even take the 'risk' (i.e. go beyond NICE guidelines) of prescribing me anti-histamines even though I am taking them already.Media coverage of how woeful the care is is pretty woeful itself, but at least the Royal College of Nursing have said stuff which briefly gets the subject back onto the news.
Care for 2m Britons with long Covid ‘woefully inadequate’, say top nurses
Royal College of Nursing highlights lack of specialist NHS clinics and disparities in care around the UKwww.theguardian.com
“Future work should follow patients to examine if sleep, fatigue and mental health symptoms spontaneously remit with time,” said Sara Nowakowski at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who led the Texas-based research.
Stuff like this really winds me up because they're still acting as though post-viral conditions are something new. The research should be well beyond examining such basic stuff by now but the long-running failures of the medical profession in dealing with previous post-viral conditions means a lot of the research is still at this Noddy stage (the answer is: some people's symptoms will remit spontaneously, other people's won't, you fecking eejits).