. lenadunham's experience with 'long Covid' is a vital reminder of the threat we're still facing: coronavirus LongCovid
“I’ve been reluctant to share this, having written and rewritten it anxiously,”“I don’t want to unnecessarily add my voice to a noisy landscape on such a challenging topic, as an unfathomable number of people have lost their lives to Covid-19 – a phrase we didn’t even know in January.
“My symptoms weren’t gone – I had swollen hands and feet, an unceasing migraine and fatigue that limited my every move,” she wrote. “Even as a chronically ill person, I had never felt this way. The doctor determined I was suffering from clinical adrenal insufficiency – my pituary gland had almost entirely ceased to function – as well as “status migrainosis” .
Concluding her post, Dunham appealed to her followers to take the virus – and the measures designed to stop it spreading – seriously.
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