COVID-19 infections increase risk of long-term brain problems
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/covid-19-infections-increase-risk-of-long-term-brain-problems/#:~:text=Overall%2C%20compared%20to%20the%20uninfected,likely%20to%20encounter%20movement%20disorders.Strokes, seizures, memory and movement disorders among problems that develop in first year after infection
A comprehensive analysis of federal data by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows people who have had COVID-19 are at an elevated risk of developing neurological conditions within the first year after infection. Movement disorders, memory problems, strokes and seizures are among the complications.
If you’ve had COVID-19, it may still be messing with your brain. Those who have been infected with the virus are at increased risk of developing a range of neurological conditions in the first year after the infection, new research shows. Such complications include strokes, cognitive and memory problems, depression, anxiety and migraine headaches, according to a comprehensive analysis of federal health data by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system.
Additionally, the post-COVID brain is associated with movement disorders, from tremors and involuntary muscle contractions to epileptic seizures, hearing and vision abnormalities, and balance and coordination difficulties as well as other symptoms similar to what is experienced with Parkinson’s disease.
Much more at link. Not trying to frighten anyone. Best to know findings of what to watch for imo!
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Yup, they are serious for sure! Seizures, strokes... 
I can't for the life of me comprehend why the CDC is not keeping and expanding mask recs. 
Of course, that's when the CDC stopped reporting data on infections, focusing only on hospitalizations and deaths.
From what little I've read and - full disclosure here - I'm not a doc or nurse, while the vaccines often protect people from severe symptoms, hospitalization, and death, long covid rates are about the same for vaxed and unvaxed.
Regardless, why the CDC has relaxed mask recs for doctors' offices is beyond me.
I will continue to wear my NIOSH 3M N-95 when in public.
I get weird looks, but oh well... I live in red hellhole TN, so it's expected. 
That was the ONLY thing I wanted to know when vaxes were released and they decided to hid the info.
I have to wait about another week for my bi-valent vax, which I'll get along with flu and pneumonia vaxes.
I've read from various sources that approximately 1/5 to 1/3 of those who are vaxed end up with long covid. But long covid is not yet clearly defined. Lots of variants and such.
I'd much rather err on the side of caution and avoid COVID, flu & all the other nasty things floating around in magat land. 
Stay safe!
Fully stocked with nearly 2 boxes of 3M N-95 NIOSH masks here. And I only go out to grocery store. Otherwise, I live on Du.
I hope you & yours are ok. 
My father is gone. I have damage but not as severe as his. I hope you and yours are well also. My brother seems to have eluded covid so far. We are not sure because he's does have new similar issues, heart and vascular. Long covid appears to be a vascular disease. I talked with someone who was in hospital for 2 weeks with covid who had to have surgery to remove gigantic blood clots in his legs. He had had a stroke before also which was not properly treated. .
My daughter has long covid. Vaxed x 3.
Sadly, she listened to CDC & in early July went to an in person event at work without a mask & got it 1st time, got over it & caught it again a few wks later.
Her A1C is very high. No glucose problems previously, which is consistent with what I'm reading & fatigue is a bear.
I hope you & your brother make a full recovery soon!
Is it possible your brother had it but was asymptomatic?
The blood clots are terrifying!
It still doesn’t seem real to me. I wish I had just said lets leave here long before it happened.
Your post and article caught my attention because my father had specifically brain damage from covid as well as severe heart, vascular and bladder damage. Not everyone has the same course with Covid- I had the classical pneumonia progression. I was infected by my students in the very beginning. By some miracle I did not infect anyone in my family. My father was infected negligently by an emergency room in the second wave in December 2021. Testing showed that he had effects in his brain that I later read in articles have been found to be an effect in Covid patients as well. His presented more as a bladder, vascular and cardiac crisis. One of the things that saved me I believe was I have had DVT in the past and I was on a blood thinner. My father was also on them for afib. But he was much older and he had much more severe effects than I did. The important thing is it was still damaging him after he was released from the hospital- he was in hospital and supposed rehab for nearly a month. But the effects of the virus were still ongoing, he tested positive for several weeks after. He never received any treatment specifically for Covid- no antivirals, no antibodies nothing.
I am sorry about your daughter, that is terrible. I hope she doesn't get any type of diabetes. I have type 1 autoimmune diabetes. When I had covid my bg was crashing constantly. Others had the opposite effect. It is common in type 1 though that when your immune system is fighting something that the auto immune attack that causes your disease is suppressed. I hope she ends up back to normal. She can test her bg herself at home also to see what is going on.
I think it’s best to mask everywhere still. I hope one day I won’t have to anymore but it’s not looking good for that.
I am not sure about my brother- I wondered if he could have had an asymptomatic case and we didn’t know about it. But as soon as we realized that they were lying about the masks and that this was being spread primarily by respiratory pathways we were wearing good quality masks everywhere and barely going anywhere. So if he had it, it would’ve had to have been in the very beginning or maybe after the hospital infected my father. But we both isolated and had negative tests then.
Yes terrifying. Of all the things I have been through I think those were the most frightening maybe- I don’t know though because I have been through a lot. Mine were small but the first one was very painful and took a long time to resolve and did damage.
Idc about the strange looks. Nmp if they are covidiots.
