This Disease Turned 5 Million People Into Statues, And Then Vanished

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  @mimic1176 · 2 years ago

  A friend of my daughter is still suffering from long covid after 2 years. It took the form of muteness - the friend can only speak in a whisper, WHEN she can speak at all. At first doctors said it was psychosomatic, but recently she discovered that when she eats REALLY spicy food, she can speak for 24 hours! Naturally none of her doctors are the least bit interested in looking into it, but at least she's found a workaround. For now.

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  @chrislawrence5971 · 2 years ago

  Used to work in a food packaging place. Salads, sandwiches, fruit bowls, etc. There was his elderly lady working just opposite me on the line. We were getting on fine, when i noticed she was missing some boxes. Thinking i was a hotshot food putter innerer. I was under the impression she couldn&apos;t handle the production speed. A few seconds passed and i realize im doing every box passing. Look up and shes staning statue still food stuff in her hand, hovering over the passing boxes. <br>Freaked me out. I tried talking to her and even touched her hand to get some kind of reaction, but nothing. Just standing there eyes fixed, mouth open, hand raised stock still. <br>No-one was paying attention, so i stepped away from the line causing the line manager to get disgruntled at me. After pointing out the issue, an actual floor manager came over, said that this happens from time to time and litterally picked her up like a shop mannequin carrying her away. Still fixed in position. It was such a bizarre experience.

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  @hootinouts · 2 years ago

  It is always disturbing when science cannot establish any answers to a disease that is still around.

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  @JokeDeity2 · 1 year ago

  Brain fog is it&apos;s own type of horror. &nbsp;I had it years ago and at this point I don&apos;t even know if I&apos;m back to my normal or not, I know my brain was messed up for so long that it might have just become my new norm.

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  @PharmDRx · 2 years ago

  First thought was ... &quot;Hahaha yea april fools mf!&quot;<br><br>Then, the &quot;well shit...&quot; kicked in

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  @easternflower6476 · 2 years ago

  My grandfathers uncle, who was beloved by everyone in our family, got this disease when he was only 25. He passed away after being in a statue like state for 4 years. My grandpa and the rest of the family would spend all day at the hospital with him. They took it in shifts, so he was never without a family member for more than a few hours. My grandpa told us how they’d play music for him, and sometimes when they would fly kites, they’d wrap the string around his hand so he could feel like he was doing something :( Rest in peace, uncle George, you were so loved and are remembered ❤️

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  @DangerAmbrose · 2 years ago

  My great great grandfather died of this in 1921. It was thought that he contracted a virus from mosquitos that caused sleeping sickness.

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  @MelancholyRequiem · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tib0lgpjbu8&amp;t=310">5:10</a> This is unironically every single run of Plague, Inc. I&apos;ve ever had.

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  @CeleWolf · 2 years ago

  You talk about long covid but people forget that M.E and Fibromyalgia have been around for a long time and the symptoms are made to sound far far more trivial than they are. Those of us in those communities are hoping that long covid helps research into M.E, CFS, Fibromyalgia for once. We have been here suffering and are still here suffering.

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  @trishayamada807 · 2 years ago

  My mom had long covid. She now, can’t walk without a walker, she has a shake to her hands and head and loss of balance. &nbsp;The neurologist said the virus attacked the little hairs in your ear that helps you balance. &nbsp;I feel bad that her last years of life were made worse. &nbsp;Everyone gets old, but she went from an active elderly person, to hospitalized, the in a rehab center and now home and I take care of her.

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  @linwoodnymph6113 · 2 years ago

  That the patients improved with l-dopa, but eventually regressed, reminds me of &quot;Flowers for Algernon&quot;.

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  @jasonluong3862 · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s possible that EL is not one disease but a combination of two unrelated diseases that when combined causes the symptoms of EL. These multivariable diseases are the hardest to diagnose.

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