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Man, I can feel the snowstorm coming simply by the pain in my forehead.
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Headaches are wonderful in that they feel so good when they're gone.
#Long #COVIDnot only affects adults but also #children.
While many people recover quickly from COVID, some don't, experiencing symptoms that can last for #months or #years.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association sheds light on the effect a #coronavirus infection can have on #children over a longer period.
“In school-aged children, we heard commonly that children were experiencing trouble with their #memory, focusing, #headaches, having trouble #sleeping, and stomach #pain,” Gross told Salon.
“And in the teenagers, we were hearing about symptoms related to fatigue and pain, having body or muscle or joint pain, being very tired or sleepy, having low energy, as well as having trouble with memory and focusing.”
A unique symptom the researchers saw in the teenage group was changes in or a #loss of #smell or #taste.
Additionally, researchers found clusters of symptoms that are unique to school-aged children and teenagers. The first were symptoms that 
affect every organ system in the body.
“These are the children with the highest burden of symptoms,” Gross said, adding that caregivers described these children as having a 
“lower quality of life and more impact on their overall health.”
“The second type of long COVID we also saw across both the ages was predominantly characterized by fatigue and pain.”
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/26/long-is-a-public-health-for-kids-experts-say/
Salon.com · Long COVID is a "public health crisis for kids" experts sayNew research sheds light on the growing burden of pediatric long COVID while it continues to be ignored
Not a typical headache...
Medical Mysteries: Shattering ‘ice pick’ headaches upended her life
Doctors concluded that her repeated stabbing pain signaled migraines until one asked critical questions.
SUNCT: short-lasting, unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing. A rare form of headache that affects one side of the head and is characterized by bursts of piercing pain often described as excruciating, SUNCT headaches last between five seconds and four minutes per episode and usually occur in the daytime. Five to six rapid fire attacks per hour are common; as many as 600 attacks a day have been reported
#SUNCT #headaches #neurology
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/07/13/headache-stabbing-pain-medical-mysteries/
Washington Post · Medical Mysteries: Shattering ‘ice pick’ headaches upended her lifePatti Glover was knocked sideways by headaches that felt like an ice pick and had been misattributed to migraines. Then a new doctor asked a key question.
I have been having headaches this past week, which is abnormal for me. Definitely seems migraine-ish.
Friday and Sunday it was bad, the other days since Friday I've at least had a little bit of a headache here and there but not persistent. Left side of head has a dull pain right now.
Not sure if I should be concerned but I have a doctor appt in 3 weeks that I scheduled last month (long wait time wheee) so I can bring it up then.
Just as #CDC follows through w their idea to drop 5-day isolation guidance for folks with active cases of #COVID19 #scientists have published new #research showing that COVID-19 can negatively affect the health of the #brain and cause #brainfog, #headaches #seizures #strokes, #sleepdisorders #nerve paralysis, #mentalhealth issues, significant drops in #IQ scores https://boingboing.net/2024/03/02/new-research-shows-that-covid-19-can-cause-significant-drops-in-iq-scores.html #publichealth #healthcare
Boing Boing · New research shows that COVID-19 can cause "significant drops in IQ scores"Scientists published new research showing that COVID-19 can negatively affect the health of the brain and cause brain fog, headaches and more
A ProPublica and Post-Gazette analysis of tens of thousands of reports shows that #Philips withheld more than 
3,700 complaints over 11 years from the FDA, which oversees medical devices.
And the company did not launch a formal investigation of the problem until 2019 — nine years after the first wave of complaints and three years after the first known tests for the company found that the foam was degrading.
Instead, as the complaints continued to pile up in company files, Philips waged aggressive global marketing campaigns to sell more machines, including new models fitted with the #hazardous #foam.
The sales pitch worked:
The devices went to infants, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans.
The company also promoted machines meant for some of the sickest people in the country, rolling out a new ventilator filled with the foam in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Philips didn’t stop even after the company learned the foam was breaking down in its ventilators in Japan and had to be replaced
— and after tests in the United States revealed that the material released chemicals at dangerous levels.
Among them: #formaldehyde, a compound used in fertilizer, dyes and glues that has been tied to respiratory problems and certain #cancers.
In 2018, the company called more than a dozen engineers and safety supervisors to a series of urgent meetings in Pittsburgh to investigate the problem in what eventually became known to insiders as "Project Uno."
Still, the public was not warned.
All the while, people using Philips machines were suffering from illnesses that no one could explain:
#vomiting, #dizziness and #headaches, along with newly diagnosed #cancers of the lungs, throat, sinuses and esophagus.
One man in Philadelphia coughed so hard that he broke his ribs, and a Florida woman with a hacking cough was hospitalized for days and placed on oxygen.
“Unconscionable,” said Dr. Radhika Breaden, who scrambled at her Oregon sleep clinic to help thousands of patients who were using the devices. “We were all completely blindsided. You can’t have people inhaling black dust … without warning us.”
Company records that show officials knew about the dangers but continued to sell machines that the FDA has since said are capable of causing severe illness or death.
Reporters also reviewed thousands of complaints submitted to the company and government describing device malfunction and injuries, including more than 370 reports of deaths.
As part of the investigation, the news organizations collaborated with Mediahuis NRC, the publisher of one of the largest newspapers in the Netherlands, where Philips’ parent company is located.
In a statement to the news organizations, Philips said its top priority is patient safety and that it regretted “the distress and concern” caused by the recall.
“We deeply apologize for that and continue to work hard to resolve this,” the company said.
Philips said complaints about the foam were limited in the years before the recall and that the reports were evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
The company added that it became aware of the potential significance of the problem in early 2021 and launched the recall shortly after that.
Former company engineers and safety supervisors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they still work in the industry, said top officials at Philips repeatedly dismissed a dangerous breakdown that ultimately set off a worldwide health crisis involving as many as 15 million devices.
“It was a catastrophic series of errors,” said a former compliance supervisor. “There were people who knew and knew for a long time.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared
ProPublicaPhilips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits SoaredTainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.
#Tinnitus #Headache #Headaches #Hypersensitivity #HearingLoss #ActuallyAutistic
I'm curious if there are any hashtags that can be followed to help warn people with auditory sensitivities about painful high pitched noises that happen in movies, tv shows, video games, music, or any other form of media that incorporates audio into it's format.
Stuff like this warns about flashing lights and stuff for people that may suffer from epilepsy, but it doesn't warn for painful noises for people who would be sensitive to this, and knowing in advance whether or not something is going to feel like having nails driven into your ear lobes would be pretty handy.
If not, I think we should start a hashtag so that people can keep up with and update others when they encounter something that has painful sounds.
For example, the latest episode of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds was painful enough to make me scream in pain last night. So you might want to be on the lookout for Season 2 Episode 4: The Lotus Eaters.
Please boost this, because I think it's a good discussion to have.