This is all in your head” — Clinicians are going in blind when it comes to treating Covid-19 long-haulers because the research is still in its infancy. The most detailed report on post-Covid-19 care was initiated by patients and came to fruition because of them. Survey questions were aggregated and curated by patients, and analyzed by patients with expertise in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Pretorius E, Vlok M, Venter C, et al . Persistent clotting protein pathology in long COVID/post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is accompanied by increased levels of antiplasmin. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2021;20(1):172. doi:10.1186/s12933-021-01359-7 Respiratory rate (RR) refers to how many breaths we take per minute, i.e., how fast (or slow) we breathe. In adults, normal respiratory rate is 12 or in some references, 10–20 breaths per minute. A respiratory rate of greater than 20 breaths per minute is called tachypnea and a respiratory rate of less than 12 breaths per minute is called bradypnea. Depth or Tidal Volume In an ideal world, when you receive a diagnosis such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), pulmonary hypertension (PH), or any other serious medical condition, it would be wonderful if you could spend an hour or two with your doctor, asking questions and taking notes about all the things that you will need to know. The hope here is to obviously have an impact on patients, but also to set an example for other foundations that get so much funding,” she said. “We will also do research so that we can prove scientifically that what we’re giving to patients is good for them.”

Schofield JR. Persistent antiphospholipid antibodies, mast cell activation syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and post-COVID syndrome: 1 year on. Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2021;8(3):002378. doi:10.12890/2021_002378

Share your passion and commitment with friends and family to reduce climate change and promote healthy lives and more sustainable communities. Take a break outside: Gardening can be therapeutic and can give you a chance to enjoy the outdoors. The solutions are often small actions, like taking five minutes to meditate or go for a walk, and prioritizing the tasks of the day. Doing something that makes any anxious person feel just a bit better. They can build on that. The final piece of the puzzle is prevention of infection. To be clear, a cold or infection for someone with a respiratory disease can be far more serious than for someone who is otherwise healthy. Plus, people with lung disease often don’t get a little infection. They get big infections, and their infections often go right to the chest.

These conditions include but are not limited to Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, Alpha-One Anti-Trypsin Deficiency, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) and other Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD’s), Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacterium (NTM), Sarcoidosis, Scleroderma and other Connective Tissue Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and other cardiopulmonary conditions.

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If you breathe at a respiratory rate of 40 breaths per minute (high), each breath would be 150 milliliters. With that in mind, for every 150-milliliter breath, 150 milliliters are used to bypass the trachea, and none of that makes it into the lungs where it can be used by the body. To help increase her quality of life post-COVID-19 she participates in a COVID-19 long-haulers support group. She said, “joining a long-hauler support group was important because people [who have not had COVID-19 and even physicians] may not understand what you go through, and you may not even understand what you are going through.” While Covid-19's physical symptoms are painful and, at times, debilitating, it's the psychological toll that often keeps long-haulers awake at night. Research indicates that chronically ill people often lose their sense of identity, safety, and social support. This is the long-hauler's experience. “I was completely astonished there were so many people with the same symptoms.”