Seizures and battered heart: how COVID-19 scarred a healthy Sydney doctor

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'I couldn’t finish a sentence without coughing': A fit and healthy Sydney GP has described his harrowing brush with COVID-19 that triggered epileptic seizures and permanently scarred his heart | Kaubo

A fit and healthy Sydney GP has described his harrowing brush with COVID-19 that triggered epileptic seizures and permanently scarred his heart.

Dr Lee and his colleagues are baffled by the immense toll of COVID-19 on the 50-year-old - the youngest doctor at his Mosman practice.On April 1, Dr Lee was seeing patients with flu symptoms at the clinic, wearing a face mask and a full-sleeve gown when he noticed he had a mild sore throat.“It didn’t feel like anything, just a scratchy throat,” Dr Lee said in a video posted on Facebook by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.

Dr Lee’s timeline corresponds with multiple reports suggesting many COVID-19 patients deteriorate in the second week after first developing symptoms.“This COVID-19 was pretty strange,” Dr Lee said. “I am reasonably young … I race a road bike, I raced for the Sydney cycling club and I raced overseas, I raced in France and I like to think I’m reasonably fit."

About six weeks after he had cleared the virus Dr Lee had an epileptic seizure at work and was hospitalised for four days. A scan of his heart at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst found a scar “right down the middle of my heart” - a condition known as myocarditis - “which is part of the virus”, he said.

 

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Kaubo Yep, just a flu 👌🏼

Kaubo Take Down Chinese Communist Party! No more COUGHING!

Kaubo Bames are known to be most at risk I think he qualifies, just look to the uk & USA

Kaubo Fear Mongering at its finest 👌

Kaubo But I remember the media saying it only attacked old people for months?

'But...but...it's like the flu which only affects the sick and elderly and once we get it we're immune,' they say. 🙄

Kaubo epilepsy might be due to clotting when he had covid

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