📋 What Is It Like Living With Long COVID? (AARP Article)

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Living with Long COVID: What it’s Like to be Diagnosed with the Debilitating Disease.

Even mild cases of COVID-19 are linked to potential long-term repercussions — some of them deadly serious.

By Nicole Pajer, AARP. Published September 03, 2024.

Chrissy Bernal has caught COVID-19 three times, most recently in ­October 2023. “My symptoms were always pretty mild,” she says. But after her third round of the virus, she ­developed extreme allergies to foods she used to eat all the time: oats, dairy, gluten, sesame seeds and peanuts.

“I literally have some level of anaphylaxis every single day,” she says. In May, Bernal, 46, a public relations professional in Houston, went into anaphylactic shock during a virtual meeting. “I had to inject myself with an Epi while everyone watched in horror on Zoom,” she says.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2024/living-with-long-covid.html