COVID-19 can cause Lewy Body Syndrome

[solarbird]

Huh.

Turns out even asymptomatic COVID-19 infections can cause Lewy Body Syndrome as one of the “long covid” sequelae.

LBS is a fucking nightmare. Think Parkinson’s disease – just for starters. Then it gets worse.

If you’ve stopped masking up, you might want to reconsider that decision. This is… bad.

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Comments

[dewline]

Not going to stop masking in public indoors.

Can't speak for the rest of the people I share my housing with, of course, and the pressures to conform they're obeying.

Of course, since I've had my first infection and it was asymptomatic...that may not matter at all.

[armiphlage]

My dad had LBD. It was not good.

[kevin_standlee]

I consistently masked during this past weekend's Costume-Con 39 in San Jose, and was grateful that most members did so as well and didn't act like the people at Eastercon earlier this month. I heard that there has been one reported case of COVID from CC39, not the large outbreak that happened in the UK. As I wrote elsewhere, it was pretty much the anti-Eastercon.

At my first in-person medical exam in three years, my doctor pointed out that masks are no longer required even in medical facilities, and asked me how long I intend to keep masking. I said, "I don't know, but I also know that I've not been sick for three years now, the longest continuous illness-free period in my life, and I kind of like it that way."

[kathmandu]

Yup. I saw one of the first articles reporting Lewy Bodies showing up in the aftermath of covid, and I had just been reading about Lewy Body dementia. All the nope to that.

[solarbird]

Anna's dropped her chiropractor now that they've gone no-masking. Not looking forward to the next couple of years at all. (And for other reasons than just this, but definitely for this.)

[solarbird]

Friend of mine's mum had LBD.

Brutal, brutal shit.

[solarbird]

I had an in-person friend whose mum went through that. It was... awful.

[melchar]

This has been my experience as well. So my answer has been - 'like ... forever forward?'

Masking has also helped my allergies - and saved me from needing to apply sunscreen on my face ...which is already having enough problems since the family history of rosacea began hitting me**.


[**in my 60's, rather than hitting in their 20's = Mom, & 30's = little sister; but then they both smoke, expose their skin to sunlight & wear makeup, so.....]