• guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    9 hours ago

    Yep! Even large swaths of the medical field are ignoring it.

    We had psychiatrists claiming it was mass hysteria until fairly recently.

    • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      We had psychiatrists claiming it was mass hysteria until fairly recently.

      Honestly i’m still not sure, but what if it is? Is there any proof that it is not?

      I think that there’s never been found any physically measurable indication for ME/CFS or Long Covid. From all we know, either it’s hormone-meditated and we have no fucking clue what hormone(s) do(es) it, or it is really psychological, maybe some mechanism buried deep within the subconscious.

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        7 hours ago

        I’m sorry you experienced gaslighting. Fuck that doctor for misinformation they said…

        1. There is no approved treatment for Long COVID, nor is there any rigourous large scale clinical trials showing benefit in objective measures
        2. There are multiple biological differences between long COVID and Depression

        But yeah shitty doctors tend to just blame it on depression because they are too lazy to learn about something new.

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            900 people is a fairly small sample size for a study like this, and the data is entirely self-reported. Given that long covid is suspected to be autoimmune-related and the 17.9% that reported worsening symptoms after vaccination, it seems premature to recommend everyone with long covid immediately get the vaccine.

            I’m not a medical professional and you probably aren’t either, so we shouldn’t be taking one study and running with the shaky conclusions it draws. Let the scientific community do their work.