"Long COVID is already having a very serious impact on many people's lives and could well go on to affect hundred of thousands"
Sir Simon Stevens, NHS Chief Executive
15 November 2020
LONG COVID
A third of all doctors have treated patients with long-term COVID symptoms and NHS England estimates that there are currently 60,000 people affected
The most commonly reported symptoms of long COVID are;
Fatigue, Brain fog, Shortness of breath
Joint, Chest and Muscle pain
Cough, Heart Palpitations, Headache
Depression and Intermittent fever
"The profound and prolonged nature of fatigue in some post acute Covid-19 patients share features with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)"
Right now there are several clinical studies taking place evaluating the effectiveness of a variety of treatments and therapies to help patients recover from Covid-19. Understandably health services around the world, including the NHS, are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of people who will be needing support through their recovery and the lingering effects Covid-19 could have.
Some studies have looked at oxygen therapy specifically and although the results have been great in reducing the fatigue felt by patients, the sample sizes, so far, have been tiny. So we cannot say with certainty that oxygen will fix your fatigue but for a good number of our members oxygen therapy has definitely been beneficial.