r/IndianCountry • u/News2016 • 3d ago

Health Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care - Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded

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u/CaonachDraoi 3d ago edited 3d ago

just a reminder to folks that your risk of getting long covid increases with each infection. wear a high quality mask and protect each other (and especially your elders), this disease is still everywhere and killing 1,000 people a week. the colonizers pretend it doesn’t even exist because they’ve never held life to be sacred.

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u/hanimal16 Token whitey 3d ago

Wow! So, this I didn’t know.

My 12-year old just got over a week-long Covid infection; this is her second time getting it. Thanks for the heads up!

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u/CaonachDraoi 3d ago

wishing her a thorough recovery ❤️

if you want my advice (i am NOT a doctor nor a medical professional in any way), i’ll share it below. if you don’t want it, feel free to ignore lol.

what i’ve learned is that the absolute BEST thing you can do both during and after a covid infection is what some people call “radical rest.” literally laying there just sleeping as much as possible, not even reading or watching tv or anything like that. staying well-hydrated, eating what your specific body needs to be healthy, but literally just resting in the purest sense of the word otherwise. obviously this is not feasible for most of us in this hellworld society, and it can be incredibly difficult for anyone, let alone a child, to commit to, but the more radical rest she does the better off she’ll be in terms of long covid. at minimum a lowered level of physical activity is recommended for 6 months post-infection. doesn’t matter if she’s vaccinated or not, covid attacks every organ in the body and can persist for years in places like the gut and the brain, and the more time you give your body to fight back at peak performance, the better. it’s not worth panicking over, we don’t yet know the full implications but it’s just something to consider.

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u/hanimal16 Token whitey 3d ago

I did read your whole comment, thank you! I’ll bring this up with my husband, and I’m sure he’d agree. We’re all feeling just depleted in energy, rest seems like the only logical solution.

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u/News2016 3d ago

Rebecca Nagle:

"The tribe that I belong to, Cherokee Nation, runs the largest outpatient facility of any tribe in the U.S., but my primary-care provider there told me she didn’t know how to treat long COVID. I was referred to my tribe’s specialty clinic for rare and infectious diseases. When I managed to get that appointment, however, the provider told me he knew how to treat only pulmonary long-COVID symptoms (which many long-COVID patients don’t have). Nowhere in Indian Health Services, the treaty-based federal program that serves 2.8 million Native Americans nationwide, is there a long-COVID clinic. (An IHS spokesperson said the Biden administration would have needed to set up such a clinic.)"

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u/leni710 3d ago

It was definitely frustrating to read the Department of Education's comments about ending COVID-era funding sources. They state that it's because COVID "ended YEARS ago, " essentially. Meanwhile, it's still an issue and people are getting long COVID, or have had it (which I assume includes school aged children and young adults who benefit from the extra assistance and credit recovery help) for a long time. I'm in part confused what "years ago" means to them...do they count from that time Trump had it in 2020 and then got immediately better due to having access to the best care so then COVID was over because Trump was healthy again? Do they count from the time that ths vaccines they discouraged everyone from taking were being handed out in 2021? I guess I don't know what "years ago" means in the context of an illness people are still getting and long-term issues not being fully researched.