“When I got sick, no one knew what to do. It was at the time when people were going into the hospital and not coming out,” Brian recalled. His symptoms soon became much more severe, and he rushed to the hospital.
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There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Learâs anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, sheâs still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with some answers.
The Texas woman is one of thousands of self-described long-haulers, patients with symptoms that linger or develop out of the blue months after they first became infected with coronavirus. Hers first arrived March 11, 2020.
The condition affects an uncertain number of survivors in a baffling variety of ways.
Research underway to treat COVID-19 long hauler syndrome
By: Amanda Brandeis
and last updated 2021-01-20 21:00:06-05
SAN DIEGO, Calif. â Throughout the pandemic, millions of people have felt relief after recovering from COVID-19, but for some, the feeling is short-lived as new symptoms appear or old ones linger.
Known as long COVID or long hauler syndrome, patients are reporting a wide range of symptoms.
âIâve had a lot of the long COVID symptoms. Iâve had some cardiac changes, Iâve had the rash, Iâve had shingles for six weeks, which kept moving and changing, it was very strange. I had nerve pain,â said Delainne Bond.