![]() ![]() Now Wilson is able to do things like make breakfast or take a shower - so long as she takes her pain meds. "The pain across my chest and in my arms was so bad that I slept with pillows under both arms because I couldn't stand my arms to touch my chest," she says. When Wilson first came home from the hospital, she was in agony. "It's really almost like the whole body aches." "It's not only 'my wrist is hurting' or 'my knee is hurting,'" Al-Aly says. Poor sleep can also contribute to the pain that many long COVID patients report. "As a result, they wake up fatigued," he says, which contributes to their exhaustion from even moderate activity. Wilson also has problems sleeping at night, a condition Al-Aly says affects about 40 percent of people with long COVID. ![]() "I have trouble with word retrieval, concept retrieval - and sometimes, like, remembering where I was going," she says. Three years after getting COVID, Wilson continues to struggle with a range of symptoms, including an unreliable memory. People with neurological symptoms do get better, he says, but full recovery is rare. Shots - Health News After Months Of A Racing Heart And Burning Feet, A COVID Long-Hauler Gets A Diagnosis
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