Navigating Long COVID: A Doctor's Journey

Dr. Alishek, you've actually had coronavirus. How would you describe it? Was it a life-changing event for you? It was a life-changing event. Still I feel the impact of COVID. It started during the second week of April and it started as a mild chest but very severe headaches and photophobia. Fatigue and dizziness lasted for five months. Yeah, definitely it affected me, my hearing particularly. It's difficult for me to do a boardroom now when it's noisy. So it's affected you and it still affects you and it's not going away? Yeah, six months, it's mid-November now, six months down the line still I'm getting a hearing therapy at the moment. I've been offered a hearing aid which I really don't want. So this is not a fleeting illness that, you know, is no further consequence to you, you're still suffering? Yeah, so I think we didn't realize the impact of fatigue, which my occupational health consultant here told me that 67% of his clinic, the patients suffer from fatigue and quite unbearable fatigue. And he reassured me that after five or six months, it's like a post-viral syndrome will disappear. And fatigue definitely disappeared. But I still feel myself not fully able to do five mile run which I used to do. Maybe I did because I wasn't doing it during the whole COVID time but the hitting and the dizziness particularly at the end of the day if I'm very tired I do feel that my I'm falling to the left. It's a sensation I don't know but it does help at the end of the day. Yeah. Thank you.