While long Covid is an encompassing term, there is symptom overlap between long COVID and ME/CFS. Around 50% of people with long COVID meet the criteria for a diagnosis of ME/CFS.
Mild ME/CFS is usually associated with around 50% reduction in daily functioning. Moderate will usually lead to people being housebound and intermittently bed-bound. Severe and very severe are associated with a level of suffering that is hard to imagine possible.
An example of someone becoming severe is PhysicsGirl - Dianna Cowern.
The associated severe dysautonomia means that people are unable to sit or stand and often they can not eat or digest. They may require intravenous nutrition. Regrettably there are cases where the disease has not been treated appropriately and young people have died as a result. A recent example is Maeve Boothby-O'Neill and her father Sean O'Neill wrote in The Times with an interview with Maeve's Mother by Dr David Tuller.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1090...
Mild ME/CFS is usually associated with around 50% reduction in daily functioning. Moderate will usually lead to people being housebound and intermittently bed-bound. Severe and very severe are associated with a level of suffering that is hard to imagine possible.
An example of someone becoming severe is PhysicsGirl - Dianna Cowern.
https://youtu.be/vydgkCCXbTA
The associated severe dysautonomia means that people are unable to sit or stand and often they can not eat or digest. They may require intravenous nutrition. Regrettably there are cases where the disease has not been treated appropriately and young people have died as a result. A recent example is Maeve Boothby-O'Neill and her father Sean O'Neill wrote in The Times with an interview with Maeve's Mother by Dr David Tuller.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-daughter-couldnt-be-sa...
https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/chronic-fatigue-syndr...