Yes, sadly 100% with you with majority of medical visits with very similar and worse experiences with our modern medical system!
I’ve had doctors who shrugged their shoulders and say we don’t treat long Covid, as if they can’t do reading in their specialty area about how Covid may impact say, the neurological system, yet there’s ample medical literature about the impact on the neurological system due to Covid infection, as most reading these sites knows
Though I’m a nurse myself, it’s completely shocking how aloof and dismissive many providers can and have been.
I was discharged from my primary care
3 months after I was hospitalized with Covid, though had been with that primary care for 8 years. Then when my health started to tank, and I needed to reach out to the office with our unusual LC symptoms, they became overwhelmed and decided it was time to cut ties with a long time patient!
It has been a 3 1/2 year long learning curve on so many levels, and the inhumanity and lack compassion has been the hardest!
You’d think that people in the medical profession would have extra compassion and would want to do an extra deep dive to try to help with your health issues and to gain information for themselves to help other people down the road…
But to date there have been a only a handful of providers who have been helpful, and I’m very grateful to them
but for the most part just put out into the field to fend for ourselves
Time is a precious commodity and we need to pick and triage ourselves as no-one us leading the charge
Frankly. many medical providers are not up-to-date and should be required by the AMA or other medical boards to have certain number of contact units about Long Covid every year
Thank you for this Mayo Clinic forum and the people who contribute, it has been a lifeline and very helpful place for information and support for fellow
Long Covid suffers
We Must Persevere LC Society!