BBC Scotland's Lucy Adams still suffers from the effects of long Covid and wants to know why.
As a result, almost daily people still ask me: "Are you better? What have the doctors told you? What's the treatment? What's the cure? What's the answer?"Three years on, I wanted to check if I had missed any big discovery so I went back to some of the experts involved in the Panorama from July 2021.
Immunologist Professor Danny Altmann, at Imperial College London, has been looking at the theory that for some people long Covid is an auto-immune condition, that the body is attacking itself."I would say bear with us," he says. Dr Maxwell says: "It is clear that people who have been vaccinated have a reduced incidence of long Covid and the number of people developing long Covid seems to be going down.
"As a doctor if you need a biomarker or a screening test to show abnormalities after two hours of listening to a patient about their symptoms, then you are clearly in the wrong job," he says. Prof Carson agrees there is no magic bullet but believes strongly that there are tried and tested rehabilitative processes that will help people.
Clearly I am not an expert and not a scientist so I can only write about what has helped me personally and what has not. Almost every day I go for a lie down in the afternoon. In the office I have a quiet room to rest in. Without that I would struggle to work. I am so fortunate that I have managed to keep my job, keep my home - so many others with long Covid have been far less fortunate.
As part of that she helped patients understand the need to build small things into each day which bring joy - even if it is just sitting in the garden or reading a book.
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