'Ongoing nightmare': Aussie woman shares warning 18 months after contracting COVID-19

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While most people who get COVID-19 don't become severely ill and will recover quickly, Brisbane lawyer Debbie Kilroy is among a significant number of people suffering from 'long COVID'. 9News

Now, 18 months on, Ms Kilroy has been left wondering if she will ever fully recover from the virus.

She was travelling with her friend and co-worker, Aboriginal and Torres Strait activist Boneeta-Marie Mabo, who also became infected."All the symptoms they said to look out for I didn't have."Ms Kilroy tested positive to the virus for 104 days, but was given the all-clear to return home after about three weeks as she was no longer deemed infectious."I have been healthy all my life and I have never had any real health issues at all," she said.

"A lot of long haulers get little, recurring infections, like ulcers in your mouth, or eye infections," she said.Ms Kilroy said she ended up at her local hospital's emergency department a few months ago because of a severe eye infection."It was so painful and like someone had scratched the hell out of it.

Dr Liu's study found about five percent of patients were still experiencing symptoms three months later, the most common being fatigue and a persistent cough. While Australia's current focus was on managing the acute caseload of new infections and hospitalisations, Dr Tan said there would be a need in the near future to look at how long COVID patients could be better managed.

 

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Is she from the ethnic Anglo or Irish or European or Asian community?

And 10-15% of those that have had shingles suffer long term or life long complications including PHN. Don't scare people with this bullshit, complications can occur for almost any virus or disease. This is just more fear reporting.

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