‘They can’t ignore us any more’: five women on long Covid and medical misogyny

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Many are still reporting minimization of their long Covid symptoms – and it’s partially attributable to the fact that female patients are routinely dismissed

Dharmavarapu has now returned to work, but still has days when her symptoms are more severe, particularly when she is menstruating. It was a “huge trial and error” process of finding the right doctor, and frustrating “to be told ‘we understand’ and then just being invalidated”, she says. “On medical gaslighting as an issue, the misogyny part, I think, has been there for a really long time.”Georgia Lancaster, 26, developed ME/CFS symptoms just after Christmas 2020 after a viral illness.

As a former acrobatic gymnast who won a world championship in 2014, Lancaster had always thought of herself as physically and mentally resilient. “I would always say my body was capable of so much more than my brain ever knew,” she says. Her infection left her bed-bound for 17 days, with many of the hallmarks of Covid: fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, cough. But her symptoms lingered for months.

She has encountered some specialists who “just don’t know what to do with long-haulers. They give you a … ‘You’re healthier than me on paper. You’ve just gotta keep plugging on!’ and brush you off.” A single mother of two daughters, Moeis works for an environmental NGO and is concurrently studying a master’s in public health. “After Covid, the days are not the same any more. I really get exhausted easily,” she says.

 

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LongCovid CFS How many of these patients have had assessments of circulating toxic and beneficial gut microbiota metabolites (indoxyl sulfate, LPS, butyrate, SCFAs), sunlight exposure (infrared, UVB), diurnal cortisol rhythm, nocturnal melatonin amplitude and volume? .

Absurd rubbish. Long civid wasn't here in early 2020. A paper was put into in Lancet saying it may be a symptom. Not peer reviewed and concluded no data could support it.

But they all got it before the jab, right?

Long Covid-19 has been here since 3 months after the December 2019. Almost 3 years into this pandemic has long Covid-19 started to be recognised as an ongoing issue of 100,000’s both here in Australia and the world Mark_Butler_MP it’s affecting our workforce not going away.2/

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