NPR article today
“New clues to the biology of long COVID are starting to emerge”
https://apple.news/A5LumXwQPToibiSI3UaivPA"And then I started with really bad heart-racing with any exertion. It was weird," says LaDue, 54, of Ontario, N.Y. "Walking up the stairs, I'd have to sit down and rest. And I was short of breath. I had to rest after everything I did."
A year later, LaDue still feels like a wreck. She gets bad headaches and wakes up with pain all over her body on more days than not. She also experiences a sudden high-pitched whistling in her ears, bizarre phantom smells and vibrations in her legs. Her brain is so foggy most of the time that she had to quit her job as a nurse and is afraid to drive.
"These symptoms, they come and go," she says. "You think: 'It's gone.' You think: 'This is it. I'm getting better.' And then it'll just rear back up again… The hardest part, definitely, is trying to look and be normal — but not feeling normal."
Hmmm. Seems familiar. Imagine having withdrawal symptoms x 2
