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Long Haulers post covide infection

So, what about the 'long haulers' I'm hearing about after they've had covid?  Even if they have a mild covid experience, some of these people report taking a very long time to recover.  One odd occurrence post covid is HAIR LOSS.  No thank you.  And many have trouble with fatigue and feeling winded for months after.  Even if they had a very slight illness while diagnosed with covid.  Hair loss?  What's that about?
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If you want the best info about this, watch CNN with Chris Cuomo.  He has it, and talks about it with experts almost every night.  Nobody quite understands it yet, and some of it sounds a bit psychological -- he's got depression all of a sudden.  He's a body builder for years who is often still out of breath months after "recovery."  His wife also had it, and had a milder case, but she now has the hair loss.  They think it has to do with inflammation of the blood vessels, which of course affects everything.  When everyone focuses solely on death especially when talking about how benign it is for the young, they don't consider that a lot of people are having long-term problems.  Whether it's permanent or not remains to be seen.  But it makes the happy talk about how "few" die of it laughable.
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That's who I saw talk about it last night!  You know what flashes through my mind?  What about my son with unexplained fatigue and depression?  What if he never had real symptoms or we missed them?  My other son and I were both sick during the first week of March.  Not terrible, a virus of some sort.  My younger son says we had corona but I really just had a sore throat.  He did have a fever on an off for about four days and cold symptoms.  Anyway, I think it is a long shot but I wonder about my older son and his issues . . .
It's probably too late for antibody tests, since immunity lasts for about 3 months, and but maybe you can give those a try.

Have you had his thyroid checked? Didn't you have thyroid issues?
Yes, we've been trying to figure it out all summer.  He had his thyroid and iron levels both checked.  I'm supposed to get his Ferritin level checked next and vitamin D level.  The latest is that we've seen a nutritionist to try to combat it from that angle.  It's been a long summer.  :>((  
It's not even known for sure if someone who had a non-symptomatic case of Covid-19 will test positive on an antibody test, or if antibody levels decline over time to undetectable levels, (and if they do, what that says about immunity). (I do realize you're wondering right now if your son ever had Covid-19, not if he has immunity.) You might check with your doc to see if an antibody test at this point (for your son or all of you who got sick in the spring) would be significant to do.
I had a similar thing months ago, and my pain level has been much higher since though it's been high and when I sleep well I wake up tired.  My symptoms were an odd sore throat and some tiredness, but it went away and it was at the beginning of spring when allergy season starts.  I went on the CDC website to see if I should get tested, and it had a checklist that I went through and at the end it said, sorry you're not feeling well, hope you get better soon.  In other words, no reason to get tested.  That was of course early in covid and the advice might be different now but then again, probably not, as the CDC has become highly politicized along with the rest of our gov't so the info coming out isn't believable.  I keep watching experts being interviewed who believe we all should get tested and tested often if we want to tamp this thing down but that has never been possible in most of the country.  Anyway, it was an odd sore throat, because other than tiredness there were no other symptoms.  No stuffed nose even.  I have attributed my symptoms to the continuing degradation of my health since what ever it is that stopping Paxil did to me and my psychiatrist's refusal to do anything about it or believe anything I showed him.  I did get a new psychiatrist, but it was too late by then.  But as you say, not everything we suffer from is from other condit0ns we might have, so sure, could have been covid.  But if we did have it, wouldn't our spouses and your kids have gotten it from us?  
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