Some people who get COVID-19 are stuck with lasting debilitating symptoms. Two women share their stories of how they've been suffering for the 'long haul.'
That hasn't been the case for Roberts or Nowell. Months later, both women are still experiencing symptoms of COVID-19: Shortness of breath, chest pains, vomiting, and neurological symptoms that range from headaches and fatigue to hallucinations and jumbled words.include thousands of people like Roberts and Nowell, who say they have been wrestling with serious COVID-19 symptoms for at least a month, if not two or three. The groups have coined a name for themselves:"long-haulers.
But their lives have been irrevocably changed by the onslaught of symptoms — relentless and rolling waves of fever, headache, nausea, and the terrifying inability to catch their breath. For Roberts, it's robbed her of time:"I was so good. This COVID-19 has stolen my life," she says. Many long-haulers say their doctors doubted their symptoms were as severe as they were saying. Roberts says her original primary care physician insisted it was just stress and suggested she watch Lifetime movies and do puzzles to calm down."I know stress," Roberts says,"this was not stress."
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