What is long term Covid?
What is long COVID? Most people with COVID-19 feel better within a few days or weeks of their first symptoms and make a full recovery within 12 weeks. But for some people, fatigue and other symptoms last for months or longer. Most people with long COVID start to feel better within 12 to 18 months. This is called long COVID or post COVID-19 syndrome. Long COVID is a new condition which is still being studied.
Symptoms of Long COVID may include:
- Fatigue, feeling tired.
- Weakness.
- Brain fog (problems concentrating or thinking)
- Headaches.
- Tremor.
- Rapid or pounding heartbeat, feeling of skipped heartbeats (palpitations)
- Dizziness upon standing.
Contact a GP if:
you’ve had severe symptoms of COVID-19 for 4 weeks or more and are worried. Tell them about your symptoms and how they’re impacting your life. Let them know when you had COVID and when your current symptoms started.
If the symptoms are having an impact on your life, you may be referred to an NHS long COVID service for children, young people or adults.
Long COVID services can offer:
- further tests to help diagnose or monitor your symptoms
- assessments for your physical and mental health
- treatment for or help managing long COVID symptoms
- referral to post-COVID rehabilitation for further support, if needed
Having long COVID does not mean that you are still contagious. Even though you may feel sick, other people cannot “catch” long COVID from you.
To find out more about long Covid please click HERE to check out the NHS UK Website.
Or take a look at the video below.
Long Covid can be a serious condition that drains you physically and mentally. For help dealing with this condition please click HERE to visit the Covid:Aid website.