https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,[1] is a form of inflammatory arthritis[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity). Coming into contact with bacteria and developing an infection can trigger the disease.[3] By the time a person presents with symptoms, the "trigger" infection has often been cured or is in remission in chronic cases, thus making determination of the initial cause difficult.
The most common triggers are intestinal infections (with Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter) and sexually transmitted infections (with Chlamydia trachomatis);[8] however, it also can happen after group A streptococcal infections.[9][10]
I think it's clear in retrospect that most of the interventions in the face of the pandemic were based on profit and scant science - lockdowns being the most obvious. But increased study and awareness of post-infection syndromes without the kind of high-brow dismissal that these patients have received up until now... well, that's certainly an acceptable silver lining.
Finding out about autonomic dysfunction and small fiber neuropathy as I researched my own fatigue and finding out I likely have this has been very challenging.
Please don't do this. It's the medical equivalent of copy/pasting shit you don't understand from Stack Overflow.
Go see a doctor who has a degree and training.
I agree with your general thrust of course, you’re much more likely to incorrectly diagnose yourself doing this than correctly, and walking around with a false belief is worse than walking around with uncertainty. But simply saying, “go see a doctor,” is rarely helpful. I’ve never heard of someone who tried to diagnose themselves without first presenting the issue to a physician.
These sorts of conditions are systemic, and the causes and ways of dealing with the accompanying syndromes are probably always going to be different from individual to individual (well, likely the exact physiological causes anyway).
There was a SARS vaccine as far as back 2016 which could have changed everything but was ignored. Pharmaceutical execs told them they were, "waiting to see if it comes back yearly" first
The findings also support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 may cause structural nerve damage, which is perhaps the even bigger worry. :(
When your doctor says that you're wrong, do you accept his advice or tell him he should be more like Dale Carnegie?
FWIW, if my doctor were unfriendly enough, though, I might do that also.
One theory is that the immune system doesn't always produce a strong enough antibody response to flush the virus from all these areas but the truth is that's likely only a subset of total cases.
they are also distinct from other conditions like ME/CFS or other sequelae although they may share overlapping symptoms. A lot of research is going into different PAIS post acute infection syndromes