“I kept shivering and had chronic fatigue. I slept 13 hours at a time and the fear of not being able to breathe gave me PTSD. It was like having a spider across your lungs.”
A new study led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health suggests that some patients with long-COVID have long-lasting nerve damage that appears caused by infection-triggered immune dysfunction.
The MGH team is urging long-haulers who aren’t seeing any improvement to discuss neuropathy with their doctor or see a neurologist or neuromuscular specialist. “Research from our team and others is clarifying what the different types of post-COVID neuropathy are, and how best to diagnose and treat them,” Oaklander said. “Most long-COVID neuropathies described so far appear to reflect immune responses to the virus that went off course. And some patients seem to improve from standard treatments for other immune-related neuropathies.”
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