Looking Forward to Better Days

[DonH]

I don’t deny that there are a lot of people who THINK their symptoms are due to covid. But are they really and if so where’s the proof? This is anecdotal reports at best from people who have convinced themselves of something. This has been going on forever and long before covid existed. There are people who swear their aches and pains and a dozen other things are due to their fibromyalgia. Problem is roughly half the physicians in the country think fibromyalgia does not even exist. Some of these people are just nutty - it’s apparent when hearing them speak. Some have real pain they want to put a label on. Some make their own symptoms worse by stressing themselves out and obsessing over it.

There is a VERY SAFE medication used to treat opioid addiction. Yet some patients blame everything and anything they feel, to be due to this medication - everything from loss of memory to their hair or their teeth falling out. Getting off of this medication is no picnic and takes some patients more than a month to start to feel normal again. Yet others try to claim 2 years after not taking a single dose, they still have withdrawals or post acute withdrawal because of it. Again the only problem is it has never been supported by peer reviewed studies or research.

This is just 2 of countless examples. I’m not saying it’s not possible for a virus to cause longer lasting issues. What I am very much saying is at this point we dont have actual scientific evidence, peer reviewed and well studied to support it. That makes it self reported and anecdotal. But hey, if you saw it on Facebook or the internet, it must be true.