CORONAVIRUS patients including fit and healthy young people can suffer with agonising symptoms for months. Some people – known as “long haulers” – have reported battling wit…
CORONAVIRUS patients including fit and healthy young people can suffer with agonising symptoms for months.
It comes after experts last week claimed coronavirus patients who lost their sense of taste or smell may never get it back.'I can't even walk without getting chest pains'The 23-year-old, from Glasgow, developed symptoms the day before lockdown was enforced on March 26.She said: "I'd already kind of accepted I was going to get the virus because of my job. Working in retail, I knew I was going to get it.
She told the Sun Online: "About three weeks after I got better I actually got taken into hospital to get checked for a blood clot and to get a chest x-ray because my resting heart rate was 130 beats per minute after going a walk down the street.Credit: Evie Connell The 23-year-old has picked up small sickness bugs at work, and developed repeated cold sores over the past few months.She said: "Obviously because everything is so clean, you're immune system is lowered because of that, which isn't helping."Week five was probably the worst, but it's not got much better since."Evie hopes sharing her story makes younger people realise they are not invincible when it comes to the killer bug.
But two tests came back negative - despite medics being "certain it was Covid-19" as she had every symptom.Natalie Bell "Some days I feel my breathing is strained, my airways feel tight and I struggle taking the dog a five minute walk. But other days I feel.completely normal.
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