#long flu

[covid-safer-hotties]

Researchers Warn That H3N2 Flu Infections Can Cause Long-Term Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration! - Thailand Medical News

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[thegayquail]

I know this isn’t the time to really rant or vent. But I’m so fucking scared and sad and angry and I don’t know what to do.

I had a fucking head injury that turned from concussion to seizure when I was 6. And now here I am, years later having neurological problems. Muscle spasms, nueropathy, migranes, issue with talking, syncope episodes, light sensitivity, etc. and no one knows what the fuck it is. I have endometriosis and after getting the flu one time, I also having fucking asthma and joint pain and gut issues. And on top of this, my great grandma got rubella-measles. Which should have only affected her and her daughter. Except my tío who is her direct grandson has heart murmurs at age 30. No one fucking knows what’s going on with me. I feel like I’m slowly losing my life and no one cares because I’m just some dumb kid from a rural town self diagnosing myself. Or the angry Latino autisic kid. Or the hypochondriac trans person. Please I just want to function. I want to be able to be an athlete and a theatre kid. I want to be able to go to med school like I dreamed. I want to be able to work myself to bone and pull myself out of poverty along with my family. Please for the love of god I don’t know what to do. I’ve already passed out during the tilt table test and did a 72 hour EKG. What else I’m I supposed to do?? Oh and on top of this the fucking doctors offices are making me fill out ROI’s for my own fucking health. Just to find out how actually bad my possible TBI was. Oh and also there’s the whole identity crisis. Brain injures can change your personality. Am I even me or am I just a bunch of health issues and mental disabilities wrapped up in a disgusting fleshy trench coat that’s pretending to be human?

[longhaulerbear]

Longitudinal Landscape of Long Flu and Long COVID

AI summary:

Key findings: long COVID

COVID‑19 was linked to a broad spectrum of comorbidities beyond the lungs, including circulatory, nervous, musculoskeletal, digestive, endocrine/metabolic, mental/behavioral, ocular, and oncologic conditions.​

People with substantial pre‑existing multimorbidity—especially cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, COPD, and neuropsychiatric disorders—were more likely both to get COVID‑19 and to develop post‑COVID (long COVID) sequelae.​

Key findings: long flu

Influenza showed a similarly broad, system‑spanning pattern of associations, again involving circulatory, neurological, musculoskeletal, digestive, metabolic, mental/behavioral, ocular, respiratory, autoimmune, and cancer endpoints.​

Pre‑existing cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, type 2 diabetes, and inflammatory disorders strongly predisposed people to clinically significant influenza, indicating infection risk clusters in those with high baseline chronic disease burden.​

Long‑term sequelae and “long flu”

After influenza, there was a durable increase in new‑onset multi‑organ disease, with some risks remaining elevated for up to 5–15 years, defining a clear “long flu” phenotype.​

The most persistent signals were cardiovascular (thromboembolism, major adverse cardiovascular events such as heart failure, atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, stroke) and neurological/psychiatric (migraine, dementia/Alzheimer’s, depression), plus metabolic and renal outcomes like new‑onset type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.​

The authors argue that influenza should be seen as a systemic event embedded in a chronic disease continuum, not just an isolated respiratory illness.​

Interpretation and implications

Both infections behave as systemic “stress tests” that unmask and accelerate chronic disease, especially in people with existing cardiometabolic and inflammatory conditions.​

The paper calls for recognizing long flu as a distinct post‑acute infection syndrome, intensifying prevention (particularly vaccination) and risk‑stratified long‑term surveillance, and developing multi‑organ follow‑up strategies analogous to those for long COVID.​

[fully-embracing-my-autopsy]

Adds the flu version of long covid to the pokedex of shit probably wrong with me

[ricisidro]

As predicted, #Covid19 #JN1 has become dominant globally. The highly mutated strain is a descendant of #Omicron, specifically the BA.2.86 (Pirola) variant.

A Covid Update, by @EricTopol including JN.1, long COVID, long Flu, and XBB.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-covid-update?utm_campaign=post

[creativemedianews]

Scientists discover 'long flu,' causing lingering effects post-illness

Scientists discover 'long flu,' causing lingering effects post-illness #lingeringeffects #longflu #postillness

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