#long-covid

The Hidden Burdens of “Unacceptable Illness”

Life at the Bottom of Medicine’s Hierarchy

How Long COVID Reactivated My Short Life

When your body signals you to return to being yourself again

Inflammation répétée = cancer ? Mon parcours covid long et cancer

Être malade, un boulot de malade ?

‘In Sickness and in Health’: How the post COVID-19 fallout forced junior doctors to reconsider…

“Give me a minute to get my dinner ready,” she says, “I pay someone to cook and clean for me since I barely have the energy or the stamina…

When Your Symptoms Don’t Make Sense, Start Looking for the Pattern

When Your Symptoms Don’t Make Sense, Start Looking for the Pattern

A life by the sea

Something has fundamentally shifted in my mind since I visited the coast this last weekend. I’ve been trying to fit my idea of the ideal…

Finding Covid

There’s been quite a bit of Covid-related news lately. Here’s a run-down. It’s a lot on how we can’t use standard methods for finding the…

The morning after doing too much — Long Covid and AuDHD burnout

Yesterday was a complete nightmare. Pressure and demands descended upon me from all angles — my body and mind stuttered and almost refused…

The Sleeping Sickness Epidemic That Medicine Still Can’t Explain

How encephalitis lethargica disabled a million people in the 1920s, and what it warns us about Long COVID today

Long COVID Recovery: Why the Nervous System Holds the Key

If you are one of the estimated 2 million people in the UK still living with Long COVID symptoms years after their original infection, you…

I’ve Been Taking Care of Someone Since I Was 14. I’m Not Sure What Happens Next.

Why So Many People Feel More Anxious, Sensitive, and Stressed After COVID, EBV, and Other Immune…

A closer look at inflammation, sensory receptors, the liver, and the stress loop that may keep the body stuck

What Remains When the Energy Doesn’t Come Back

Some days the body runs on a different kind of math than it used to. Not less capable. Just operating by new rules.

Long COVID Doesn’t Care About Your Plans

“You don’t look ill.” I know. That’s exactly the problem.

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This Pride Month, boycott WIRED Magazine

Queer communities and disabled communities must unite. We have much in common, and are fighting very similar fights.

Some musings on identity and long COVID

(crossposted from X)

No, 1 in 6 People Do Not Have Long COVID

The ongoing story of bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates

Your Body Has a Secret Anti-Inflammatory Switch — and We’re Finally Learning How to Turn It On

Auditory and Visual Hypersensitivity in ME/CFS and Long COVID: Symptom or Destructive…

Otto Kolbl, Christina Koch

Stem Cell Therapy for Long COVID: A Patient’s Guide

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance life still hasn’t returned to normal after COVID. You may be back at work, back to family…

**What I’ve been finding across Biomelogic client cases and why it isn’t just dysbiosis**

After analyzing OAT (Organic Acids), GI-MAP, and metabolic panels across multiple complex cases, the same biomarker signature keeps…

Covid-19 ruined my life, it could ruin yours too.

When I caught Covid for the fourth time, 2 ½ years ago, I had no idea how much it would change my life. In the fall of 2023, I started…

Dating, Friends, and Social Life While Staying COVID-Conscious

There’s a version of COVID-consciousness that looks like isolation — cancelled plans, declined invitations, the slow erosion of a social…

The ME You Don’t See

I was motivated to create the below graphic after hearing the heartbreaking news that another beautiful person from the ME community passed…

Incomplete Autophagy and the Long COVID Lock-In: A Mechanistic Lens

I keep stumbling into the same intersection from different directions.

My Body Runs on the Wrong Fuel

I’m slowly starting to understand some of the mechanisms behind my illness. And so I thought I’d try to explain it, if you’re interested.

The Land of Perpetual Storms

Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash

When Your Heart Rate Improves but You Still Feel Sick: What New POTS Research Shows

For many people with POTS, heart rate becomes one of the first numbers they learn to watch.

#34 How Long COVID Ravaged My Health — What Doctors Missed, What I Discovered & How I’m Living Now

I’ve been super sick. That’s why I haven’t blogged and posted as much over the past year and a half.

Your Brain on Common Scents: Covid, Pineapple Pizza, and more…

…on Flavor confusion, Chemistry, and Hawaiian Pizza!

Why Your Long COVID Symptoms Might Be Hidden in Your DNA

Your tests are normal. But your body is telling a different story.

Welcome to the Non-Vaccinated World

Considering the virulence of the anti-science, pro-scam ignoratti of RFK Jr and friends has got me wondering about consequences.

Things Go Awry

How acceptance can be surprisingly helpful in dealing with chronic symptoms

I realised I never understood what acceptance actually means

Stand der Dinge [22.03.26]

Ich stehe mehr, als dass ich liege. Gute Nachrichten nach einem Jahr des Wiederaufsteigens.

RTHM’s AI powered “Health Roadmap” tool

How I used RTHM’s AI powered Health Roadmap tool to surface patterns, root cause hypotheses, and emerging clinical insights into my Long…

How I learned to avoid the Long Covid push crash cycle

How I went from bi-weekly “flares” for over a year to stabilizing my body’s nervous system

My experience at the Mayo Clinic’s Post COVID Care Clinic

What I learned and an update after implementing the protocols over the last 2 months. Hint: I’m very hopeful in this new recovery plan.

My 1 year Long COVID-versary

1 year with Long COVID. Reflecting on the resilience of the human body and the test of endurance on my mental health.

Gift guide for surviving Long Covid

I did the research so you don’t have to

Natural remedies for Long Covid symptom relief

In another post, I detail my journey with Long-Covid, going over my symptoms, the progression of the illness, and ended the post with…

I was young and healthy, then I got Long Covid

What led up to my diagnosis

Der Schatten von SARS holt uns ein: Long SARS wurde ignoriert — Long COVID ereilt das gleiche…

Christina Koch, Otto Kölbl

SARS’s Long Shadow: We Ignored Long SARS — And Let Long COVID Suffer the Same Fate

Christina Koch, Otto Kolbl

The Trauma of Not Being Believed:

No. I’m not a malingerer

Long Covid Diaries: THE KIP (Weeks Five and Six on LDN)

Quick recap for anyone just joining: LDN stands for Low-Dose Naltrexone — naltrexone is normally used at 50mg for addiction treatment, but…

Long Covid Diaries: THE YIP (week 4 on LDN)

Quick recap for anyone just joining: LDN stands for Low-Dose Naltrexone — naltrexone is normally used at 50mg for addiction treatment, but…

Long Covid Diaries: THE SLIP (week three with LDN)

Quick recap for anyone just joining: LDN stands for Low-Dose Naltrexone — naltrexone is normally used at 50mg for addiction treatment, but…

Long Covid Diaries: THE GRIP (week two with LDN)

Quick recap for anyone just joining: LDN stands for Low-Dose Naltrexone — naltrexone is normally used at 50mg for addiction treatment, but…