The 32-year-old professional Karishma, who works in the mental health sector, used to be a completely healthy cardio-lover, yoga-doing, gym-coating person.
Used to beShe lived a full life and was ready to do new things every day.
Before life sets him up with the wrong deck of the card. Karishma signed Kovid twice in 2021 and 2023. However, the second time, Karishma was diagnosed Long covidA situation that has reverse her life.
By living independently in Mumbai, Karishma was forced to return with her parents, as she says, “I couldn’t work on my own.”
Karishma is not the only one who had a weak experience with a long time Kovid,
According to a study published in 2023 Medical virology journal8.2 percent of the people who contracted Kovid are also suffering from long Kovid.
It has been five years when the epidemic has become ‘new common’ for most of us. But for some, Kovid and Long Kovid have changed the meaning of the word (and world).
Suitable To understand four long Kovid patients, what life is for them.
No feeling of new general commonness: How to change life with long covid
United States Defines Disease Control Center Long covid “Signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after acute covid-19 infection.”
For charisma, these symptoms began with fatigue, cough, weight loss, vitamin deficiency and losing their feeling of taste and odor.
Soon, she also suffered from breath, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots), memory issues, eye issues and viral recurrence.
“There is not a single part in my body that long Kovid has not affected. I am one step away from wearing diapers. I am on the medicine of heart failure, on the thin of blood, on other drugs – no one of which does. I am very susceptible to infections that I have received seven regenerations since the diagnosis was made. ,
Karishma, 32
The 40-year-old corporate employee located in Delhi-NCR, Sorea Dash has a similar experience. He too was detected in 2022.
He tells Suitable, “After Kovid, gradually, I realized that every time I stand or move a little further, my heart rate would have been shot. I was also having chest pain. ,
A 30 -year -old former web developer Neha Rajamani is also experiencing chest beats, chest heaviness, neurological, gastrointestinal and cardiac issues since she was contracted.
Karishma says what all the body’s organs say about being affected, most of the long Kovid patients echo.
Dr. Aparna Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Infectious Disease, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, tells Suitable This is a chronic condition with long covid symptoms that can be normalized for extremely specific and severe.
“It can be extremely difficult for medical professionals to address this, let the patients go alone,” she says.
‘Diagnosis was a struggle in itself’
Diagnosis is not easy for long covids.
Sorea Dash has spoken before Suitable How It was difficult for him to get a pot diagnosisPost-Cowid.
He says that he had to consult with many doctors – cardiologists, pulmonary and general physicians – before he could find one who really accepted that the health concerns of the dash were serious, and who did not invite the issues of dash.
Dash tells Suitable“I was told – ‘You are reading too much. It’s worried. It’s in your head. It’s nothing’. So I started reading, catching with the latest medical research on long covid, and associated with a community of patients.”
The monarchy still feels that she has to play her condition down when she seeks a doctor consultation, the doctor really listens to her.
News agency PTI It was also reported in February 2024, quoting an Europe-based story, on how “medical gaslighting” has been serious with long covid patients.
Long Kovid patients had to rally themselves to get help due to their needs. Dash, Karishma and Rajmani are part of a telegram group that has been created for long Kovid left by journalists and activists DVL Padma Priya.
In this way they have received support to live with doctors, medical assistance and support.
The problem is also that there are no biomarkers, installed treatment protocols, or advanced tests that are particularly known to help long -term covid patients.
With research about the ongoing situation, Dr. Chakraborty says that there is no treatment or treatment yet.
“For now, it is only a patient looking for each other. It is like the early days of HIV epidemic. With a disease that should be funded and treated, we have been left on our equipment.”
Karishma, 32
And even after the diagnosis, there is a problem that remains. Many of the long Kovid patients have limited mobility or they have bed bounds.
However, doctors are not as open for virtual consultation as they were a few years ago.
‘Die slowly: you cannot manage life and long covid’
When? Suitable When asked these patients how life is life with long covids, it was a general consensus that it is not a life.
“This is hell,” says dash.
Karishma agrees. She says, “You are slowly dying.”
When they say so, they are not doing exaggeration.
The monarchy has to quit his job. Dash May 2022-July was unemployed since 2023. Karishma has to cut the work, and says that the way her illness is moving forward, she may have to “go to work completely in future.”
38 -year -old media professional, Ashlesha Thakur, has to resort to working from home.
Thakur says, but whatever is, it comes out too much emotional and financial.
She says,
“I have not felt perfectly healthy over the years due to long covid. I am very scared of the change in weather now – I am afraid of cold weather, which was not so earlier. I am now more scared for my son who is also facing health issues. Long Kovid has created a feeling of fear in me that I had never done before. ,
When you have only a limited quota of energy and new symptoms, your social relations also go out of the window. As someone hobbies, travel plan, or target. Whatever is left, echoes patients, is uncertainty.
Is there any way to deal with it? Dr. Chakravarti does not really say.
“Different things can work for different work -for some it can be a clean diet, for some, it can work out. But since the expression of the situation is different in different individuals, there is no one way that can be managed, ”she says.
“The only way to cope is flexibility, knowing the boundaries of your body, and following them.”
Sorea Dash, 40
(This article was originally published on 5 March 2024 and it is being re -published. The QuintArchives of Archives for five years since the Covid-19 epidemic.)
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