After the infection – Many patients feel alone in the face of the long Covid

Complicated care, difficulty of the entourage to understand, political slowness, professional uncertainties: patients testify.

Fatigue, cognitive or gastrointestinal disorders, cough, loss of taste or smell, headaches, chest or muscle pain, difficulty breathing, palpitations… Patients with long Covid can suffer from many symptoms, which are sometimes fluctuating .

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Published: 21.01.2022, 6:58 p.m.

«My head wants to do things. The legs try to follow. But since my painful lungs are not fully functioning, I can no longer move forward or walk,” raconte Charles*. In November 2020, this 50-year-old was intubated following to Covid. DSince then, he hasn’t recovered.

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Headaches, shortness of breath, joint pain, extreme fatigue… Charles suffers from a long Covid. He is not the only one. “I have three children and I think I know fatigue, says Jeanne, infected in November. There, it is something else, it is about a physical exhaustion which prevents practically any activity.