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Ms Webster is calling on doctors to get educated about long Covid and for the government to put effort into medical research. The researchers also found people with asthma were more likely to develop long Covid. King’s College London suggested one to two per cent of people aged in their 20s who had the virus would develop long Covid, compared with five per cent of people aged in their 60s. “Treatment is highly individualised and depends on the main symptoms a patient is experiencing,” he said.ĭr Balasubramaniam said research suggested long Covid became increasingly likely with age and was twice as common among women. Picture: Suppliedĭr Balasubramaniam said there were no known treatments for long Covid. Sian Webster with her guide Pasang Sherpa on the Everest base camp trail a few months before she contracted Covid-19.
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“The virus itself getting into and damaging our cells might explain some symptoms like brain fog, and a loss of smell and taste, while damage to blood vessels in particular could lead to heart, lung and brain problems.” “That can happen in people who have very strong immune responses. “One possibility is the infection makes some people’s immune systems go into overdrive, attacking not just the virus, but their own tissues,” he said. In this condition, some organs and tissues become severely inflamed.”ĭr Balasubramaniam said it was still unclear what caused long Covid. “Some adults and children experience multi-system inflammatory syndrome after they have had Covid-19. “In some people, lasting health effects may include long-term breathing problems, heart complications, chronic kidney impairment, stroke and Guillain-Barre syndrome – a condition that causes temporary paralysis.
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“Organ damage may lead to health complications that linger after Covid-19 illness,” he said. Molecular virologist Vinod Balasubramaniam, from Monash University in Malaysia, told NCA NewsWire that although Covid-19 was seen as a disease which primarily affected the lungs, it could also damage many other organs, including the heart, kidneys and brain. Sian Webster does not expect she will be able to return to fencing. Ms Webster believes she will need a few more sessions, and while she raises the funds she needs over the next few months, she will go back to the UK to try hyperbaric oxygen therapy. “I am still housebound and struggle with thinking, however I am now able to cook my meals most days – something I struggled to do once a week before.” I started to get better from around the sixth treatment. “A lot of people become worse in the first few sessions before they start to get better. “My general fatigue and brain fog has improved some, and my breathing has become a lot better,” she said. So far, the treatment appears to have helped a little.
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“Though I don’t really expect to fence ever again, some improvement would be life changing,” she said. Ms Webster said she faced being unable to work for the rest of her life. “It does seem that the longer it has been since the patient became sick, the less effective the treatment, and the more damage is done to my body by long Covid.” “It is still an experimental treatment, but it sounded promising, so I decided to go,” she said. She is now getting heparin extracorporeal LDL/fibrinogen precipitation aphaeresis treatment in Germany and has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover the costs. Sian Webster realised she had long Covid in 2020. Ms Webster has tried many different treatments – even steroids and the controversial Ivermectin – but nothing has cured her. “Each of the five times I’ve crashed, I have become permanently worse, though in between each crash I do recover extremely slowly – so slowly that it will take me about a decade or more to have a normal level of daily function if I continue to recover without crashing.” “I have post-exertional malaise, which means that exercise makes me worse. “Because of fatigue, I can walk for about five to 10 minutes at a time,” she said. She also suffers from pericarditis, which is the swelling and irritation of the tissue surrounding the heart, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which affects blood flow. Ms Webster still suffers from about 30 minor and “very weird” symptoms, including extreme fatigue, brain fog and breathing difficulties. It was not until the end of 2020 she realised she had long Covid and she returned to Australia. Sian Webster has travelled to Germany for treatment.