3.5% chance to get long covid if vaccinated
Estimates for the first year of the pandemic suggests that at least 65 million people globally have had long COVID
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And just so no one thinks the vaccines are causing it based on your comment alone,
7.7 percent among unvaccinated adults
Ah yeah good call
What? It's larger for unvaccinated? How can this be???? /s
The idiots don't understand this. I know one that will go apoplectic at a singular case of something bad happening to a vaccinated person (regardless of whether it was due to the vaccine itself, covid, or completely unrelated) and cry about how bad they are. I've shown him numbers from the very same article or study he's trying to cite and he ignored it.
I'm vaccinated plus three boosters, and I'm struggling with it now after COVID last fall. Sucks to be in that lucky 3.5%.
Rarity doesn't change severity. I'm sorry for your struggle buddy.
I'm lucky that mine isn't as severe as it could be. I'm not bedbound and I work from home, which I can still do, though on some days I need to lie down for a couple hours midday and work into the evening to make it up.
But I can't do the things I used to enjoy like hiking, cycling, going to the gym. Even non-active stuff like chess - the brain fog affects how well I can calculate and I've lost a ton of rating after six years of steady improvement. Immune system is fucked and I keep getting skin infections. Can't digest food very well, can't even chew very well due to inflammation in my jaw. Can't sleep more than 4-5 hours a night. The nervous system impacts everything.
So basically it still lets me do my job and pay my mortgage but everything I did for fun is out of reach. Not a great quality of life.
In December I got COVID for the 4th time. Yes I'm vaxxed. No I'm not boosted.
Prior to this bout I was working out 30 minutes a day. Since this bout I can barely climb a flight if stairs without getting winded.
It really sucks.
Yes I'm vaxxed. No I'm not boosted.
You... do realize that efficacy wears off over time, and after about 6 months or so it doesn't actually do much?
When I got it covid they told me to not get a booster for six months. Because the infection acts as a booster in a sense.
Who told you that? They just tell you to wait a few weeks after the infection before getting a booster
The VA. I got infected while in one of their hospitals
The Proper advice is six weeks, not six months
I also know people who get it over and over again. All they do is go to work and then go home. They see a few people on the weekend but mostly just their grandchildren. I used to blame them for it (not out loud of course) but now I just think they are just more susceptible to covid than most others.
Either way, I hope you fell better soon. Hopefully, after a few months, you can get a booster which may raise your immunity.
Very kind of you. Thank you.
I got my first Covid in the summer 2022, it was horrible and it was just the tip of the iceberg. I went from working out 5-6 days at week (for 50-70min) to waking up already exhausted. I tried to rest, I tried to work out regardless (and it was super hard to recover) I was always exhausted. This has a toll on all aspects of my life, relationships got severed by me not being available, work was ok (thank goodness I am at a seniority level lower than I actually am) but not great. I went to the doctors but there is no test for long covid so they started testing me for everything and, of course, got lost in all possible imperfection of my body
In December 2023 I got my second Covid. It wasn’t that bad and, incredibly, after that I started to slowly (over months) to recover. I am still not at the level I used to be before (I get tired much more easily) but now I can have a normal life.
Yes, I had 3 vaccines doses before my first Covid… and, even if in my country the Covid vaccine is discouraged for people that aren’t old enough, I keep on doing.
Some people are just more susceptible and it is not the “cold” that some people think it is