Research conducted by UCL and the University of Exeter found that individuals' long Covid symptoms were comparable to that of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Co-author Professor William Henley, of the University of Exeter Medical School, said: ‘We urgently need more research to enable the development of evidence-based services to support people trying to manage this debilitating new condition.’who opened up about their experiences.
Nic Mitchell, who first got symptoms on Christmas Day 2019, told how she ‘aged 20 years’ in her first 18 months living with the illness.She was so sick, it took her a year and a half to be able to take her dogs around the park.she has had to endure with long Covid. ‘Extreme fatigue resulted in words blurring as my vision would erratically lose focus and become double. Ringing in my ears would dull my hearing.
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