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Young Adults Who've Had Covid-19 Show Signs of Lasting Cardiovascular Damage

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I'm 24, had Covid-19 in November, and since then I've had severe, chronic chest pain every single day for months. Cardiologists report similar effects so, anecdotally, I'm inclined to agree with the information being proposed in the article OP posted. I hope we get more research and medical study on the long term effect of the pandemic over the next year or two.

Covid infection probably caused scar tissue which is now constant low grade chronic inflammation. It depends how severe your Covid infection was and how much scarring it left from zero to minimal to a lot.

You say you have severe chest pain but if you are able to breathe without artificial oxygen intake then I would say you have minimal scarring.

I'm not sure how to treat scarring of lungs tissue since you can't "repair" it with surgery like you can other tissues or you can idk I'm not a doctor but you should seek treatment.

I had that too, but about twice as long. After talking with my doctor and getting chest x-rays (and not seeing anything), he recommended taking a strong dose of Aleve eveyday until it went away. I took generic naproxen sodium, and it took me about two weeks for it to go away. Now after a couple weeks of stopping, it only hurts a litte if I twist my torso a certain way. Your mileage may vary.

> Further research is needed so we can figure out who is most at risk and how long this arterial stiffness sticks around for, but the findings largely match other long-term studies which report vascular changes that can last for up to three months and are not associated with the severity of COVID-19 symptoms.

Is this study making the weight, and health of the individuals pre-covid available?

My girlfriend and I both got covid, she had trouble breathing on the first day, probably from panic if anything, but other than that we both got over the fever in a couple days and spent the next week coughing up mucus. No lasting damage besides our sense of taste/smell taking a month to recover. We're both in our 20's, both in great health.

It's difficult for me to believe that anyone who doesn't have comorbidities is at risk here. Barring the virus laying dormant for several years like HIV, I don't see why anyone should care about this more than the flu. I feel like I fell for the media hysteria in the early days, and now I wonder who profited the most from that fear, and whether that has more to do with our lockdowns than anything else.

Bad/long enough persistent flu can wreck your organs, too. This isn't undocumented.

Most of what information I can find about damage to blood vessels is related to damage from chronic, progressive conditions. Can blood vessels damaged acutely by something like Covid-19 repair themselves over time?

> In the most recent study, scientists compared the vascular health of 30 young adults, half of whom had tested positive for COVID-19 about a month before and half of whom were in good health.

What if people who has some heart condition/ predisposition is more susceptible to Covid?

People who are more susceptible to Covid are those who have compromised immune system: Overweight People, People with Diabetes, People who smoke etc. (underlying conditions)

And recently I've learnt that men with high testosterone level are more prone to infections.

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