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Leaky Blood Vessels: Underlying Cause of Long COVID “Brain Fog” Discovered (scitechdaily.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/science

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This study shows links between Long COVID’s neurological effects, including brain fog and cognitive decline, and brain blood vessel integrity, offering hope for new treatments and diagnostic methods.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9 (open access)

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[–] NineMileTower 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can it be treated? Does it heal?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

understanding the underlying cause of these conditions will allow us to develop targeted therapies for patients in the future,” said Prof. Matthew Campbell

Lets hope so. I imagine they might try medicines to reduce the bleeding and improve healing.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anecdotally speaking I had covid a few months before vaccination became available (yay) and had horrible brain fog. I forgot a lot of words and really struggled with finishing sentences, things like that. It did improve but it took about a year. At the same time one of my toes kept swelling up every time my feet got cold and that stopped around the same time my ability to think improved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing a hopeful anecdote about long COVID, they’re few and far between. I’m glad you got better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much. It was a scary time because I felt like my brain was never going to work again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really empathize from nearly 5 years of gut dysfunction and related autoimmune issues. Healing felt like a miracle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yikes that sounds awful.