Headline: “Why Is This Strange Disorder Surging?”

Article: it’s POTS, thousands of people are being diagnosed with POTS as a post viral consequence of COVID, just like all of us who had post-viral POTS before COVID warned would happen.

Also, “strange disorder” is the worst sort of health reporting editorializing. It’s not strange, it’s exactly what one would expect from significant dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Mercurial, mysterious, debilitating, but not strange.

@amaditalks I totally agree. We may my call these things new and interessting, but strange sound like the patients are somehow dishonest. People keep forgetting that this is the first global pandemic we can observe using modern medical and statistical methods and understanding. The last time something like this happend was the H1N1 (aka "spanish flu"). Back then we barely knew that things like viruses exist.
@gilgwath the first airborne pandemic at least, yes.
@amaditalks Not surprising since covid is a vascular disease.

@amaditalks I initially thought you were talking about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service

I guess I got my wires crossed

Plain old telephone service - Wikipedia

@amaditalks
For those new to the game -
A venn diagram of these shows an awful lot of overlap -
POTS - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
PEM - Post Exertional Malaise
PVS - Post Viral Syndrome
ME/CFS - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
LC - Long Covid
AF - AdrenalFatigue
The common ground is ANS - Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction, aka - Dysautonomia or Stress Response Dysfunction.
Been around forever, just now getting some attention.
@ArrowbearMoore gotta add fibromyalgia in there, which also overlaps with all of those other fun things and brings in the addition of chronic nerve pain.

@amaditalks @ArrowbearMoore

Also also EDS, MCAS, autism, and ADHD. And then we can loop back around as anyone hypermobile might have a higher risk of long covid

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/19/people-with-hypermobility-may-be-more-prone-to-long-covid-study-suggests

People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid, study suggests

People with excessive flexibility 30% more likely to say they had not fully recovered from Covid, research finds

The Guardian