Thread by @renudhinakaran

Stop doing standard tests on #LongCovid patients and claim that they are physically alright because the results are normal. Medicine & Science have not bothered to develop proper biomarkers for post viral illnesses for decades, ignoring the pleas from patients, including #pwme.1/

The world has not seen a pandemic on the scale of what #COVID19 caused (last was the Spanish flu) and by definition, you have not seen mass disability on the scale of what #LongCovid has been causing. Use your brains and empathy - if you have either of them - & think! 2/

Why would millions of people sit at home, losing their appetites, mobility, health, livelihood (and lives, sadly, in some cases) after contracting Covid without an actual biological/physical cause? They cannot all be depressed, surely? 3/

If they are, it is because doctors have not taken them seriously or can't do much even if they do because medical systems have not caught up with what is required! Look at what @resiapretorius @BeateJaegerMD are doing about microclots & Long Covid. #TeamClots 4/

Look at what @BerlinCures and the Team at Erlangen have discovered about Long Covid and GCPR autoantibodies. Learn about Long Covid and autoimmunity - …nslational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 5/

Learn about the connection between connective tissue disorders, endothelial dysfunction and Long Covid. Until you have done this or encouraged the medical system in which you work to do this, to the best of your abilities, stop making this about #mentalhealth. 6/

Learn about #POTS (come on! that is not rocket science) and #MCAS in Long Covid patients and treat them symptomatically. That part shouldn't be so hard! Learn to differentiate between actual, physical tachycardia and anxiety - that should be part of your job description! 7/

Long Covid patients don't need psychological counselling, except to handle medical gaslighting and trauma which is causing their lives & livelihoods to go down the drain. Do you job #MedTwitter! Do your f***ing job! 7/ #NEISVoid

Okay so this seems to have reached quite a few of you, so leaving this here: my #LongCovid recovery (sort of) medical story is in pinned tweet.