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Long Covid: Will I Ever Get Better?

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This might be of interest to some and, insofar it involves antibodies, could conceivably have relevance in autoimmune thyroid disorders.

Long Covid: Will I Ever Get Better?

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BBC correspondent Lucy Adams is one of more than a million people in the UK with long Covid. She speaks to other patients desperate to know when they will be well again.

12 July 2021

29 minutes

Today 19:35

BBC One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Wales & Wales HD

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xwjg

Note the confusion as to when and where it will be shown. Still, we can expect it in iPlayer sometime.

Probably only of relevance to UK residents and a few others who might receive a signal.

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Thank you for this, helvella. Research will most likely confirm this to be 'Mitochondria not Hypochondria'. Hopefully, findings/help will be extended to those long suffering, at times sneered at, CFS/ME people?

THAT these issues have gone on quite so long is anathema. 😥 Again, hopefully, that same old treatment [GET and CBT] won't be fobbed off on this newly emerging Covid group?

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Just watched the program and made a few notes from what was said:

33,000 children in UK have long Covid

1 in 8 progress from Covid to long Covid

A third had it more than a year

120,000 healthcare workers with long Covid

1 in 5 with long Covid struggle with memory or brainfog

Doesn't matter if the person had symptomless, mild, severe, hospitalised - all can end up with long Covid.

Antibody issue was left very vague.

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Yeah, do you think they had found autoimmune antibodies to it or not? I was none the wiser on it. Is there some sort of precursor to finding actual autoimmune antibodies, it sounded like they had discovered something but quite what that something was… it was very vague. Perhaps he just wanted to give us hope?

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Difficult if it hasn't been published or there are Intellectual Property rights issues (patents, etc.) - and not necessarily to profit individuals.

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You might want to post this from the Guardian today (you’ll reach more people)?

theguardian.com/society/202...

It’s pretty brief.

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TSH110

It was an interesting programme. Thanks for posting.

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I think the format of the program was quite good. Somehow low key but quite involving.

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TSH110

Yes it was compelling in a gentle way

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