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We can't tell how long post-Covid symptoms last: Doctors
Updated On: 11 July, 2021 06:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Fatigue and brain fog now seem trivial before inflammatory neuropathy and sudden shifting joint pain among other severe and baffling conditions that COVID-negative persons are seeking medical help for, some close to a year after recovery
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Mumbai-based media professional and singer Suryasarathi Bhattacharya tested negative for COVID-19 two months ago, but doctors haven’t been able to accurately diagnose the reason for his partial hearing loss. Pic/Shadab Khan
As the wife of a doctor, the C word has, for a better part of the last one-and-a-half years, occupied Mumbai resident Khushnooma Kapadia’s headspace. Despite the paranoia surrounding the pandemic, especially with her husband being in the thick of the COVID-19 fight, Kapadia had assumed that the worst had passed when cases started to drop earlier this year. But, the second wave hit the family like a storm.
On April 15, around 3 am, Kapadia remembers her 16-year-old daughter coming into her room, saying she was unwell. “Cold and shivery” already, she lost her sense of taste and smell by 8 that morning. The COVID-19 test, says Kapadia, was just a formality. Her health had only just started improving, when on April 23, their son Nivaan, 11, complained of uneasiness. By the following day, he started running a temperature, bordering on 102-103 F. The assumption was that he had caught the virus as well. “COVID fever has a cycle break after three to four days, so we presumed that it would start ebbing.”
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