After COVID-19 patients recover, individuals can experience lasting conditions such as an intolerance to physical exertion for months, or even longer.  Since COVID-19 first presented, research efforts to investigate these long-term implications have been of utmost priority.

Adults who recovered from COVID-19 are facing challenges such as persistent symptoms and impaired overall health.  Researchers have been trying to understand these lasting consequences.  Why the difficulty in recovery from COVID-19 is not unexpected. Patients often have to deal with damaged lungs, synapses in the brain affected  and more.

Despite these findings, there's a lack of clarity about how long it takes for patients to recover fully.

Ongoing studies focus on various aspects: heart health and function, blood flow, injured tissues repairing, chemical levels in the body and physical activity levels. Some studies looked closer at heart performance.  The heart not working right can lead to many symptoms. They all impact long-term well being.

Blood levels of various substances vary in post-COVID-19  patients.  Some indicators of inflammation may rise. If inflammatory levels stay high the body will be at risk for other negative events.

Considering these findings, these  heightened levels could be related to persistent symptoms.

Physical activity levels also drop after a bout of COVID-19. People find themselves weary when performing day to day tasks.  Getting a way forward is possible to some extent.  Increasing activity where you can is beneficial. Structured exercise programs ain't implementable in some cases. For the most part, they require clinical equipment.

Addressing these issues contributes to overall well being.  Still, missing puzzle pieces exist like figuring out more about what happens to people in the long term.  Further research looks promising for medicines, therapies, and treatment to help patients improve their recovery phases soon.

Still, evidence shows a modality of recovery as experienced by those who went through COVID is changing just how we see chronic illnesses.

For these cases exercise intolerance is considered as it is "omg physiologically different" from more familiar conditions.  Drastically altering day to day capability makes COVID unique and new.

With continuing research, it's clear patients' journeys don't end with initial recovery.  Post-illness phase: getting better but feeling not quite there can be gruelling.

Educating the purpose of this review: awareness and the possibility of more medications and therapies that can allow patients to go on to live a richer healthy life after. Before making any decisions, speak with a healthcare professional as most patients suffered from the so called "happy" ancestry of COVID-19: long haul COVID.

There is work still to be done to fully grasp the full impact of COVID-19.

Unveiling Long-Haul Effects of COVID-19

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