Long COVID Is Taking Big Toll on U.S. Workforce (www.healthday.com)

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Millions of Americans might be out of work due to Long COVID

About 14% of working-age people with Long COVID hadn’t returned to their jobs within three months

People with five or more symptoms were more than twice as likely to be out of work

So cool that covid is just being treated as an unstoppable force we just have to live with, and demands of universal healthcare have been shit canned among mainstream discourse because what's called "the left" in the Burger Reich wanted to go back to brunch.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Covid can infect the gut and stay there after it's cleared from the rest of the body, and/or disrupt its functionong and otherwise fuck up your gut microbiome. Research suggests this disruption might be causing a lot of long covid issues.

If you have a doctor talk to them first, but you might want to look into probiotics: https://www.healthline.com/health/covid-and-probiotics

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Sigh

I’m a neuroscientist and at my last job I mostly did gut research. Also my mom has been a big advocate of probiotics for like, a decade.

Why did trying probiotics not click in my brain. Why am I this stupid?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Multiple ongoing pandemics, the crushing weight of capitalism, and the overwhelming responsibility of being ridiculously good looking?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I recently took 1 probiotic pill a day for like 60 days.

I don't think it made any difference. But maybe I needed 2 pills daily or a different probiotic or something. shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Might want to try kefir, or probiotic juice.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think increasing the dose would matter, but you might have needed to take it for longer. I had to go on probiotics once after a course of antibiotics and it was like 6 months of gradual improvement before I was back to normal.