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Recovering from COVID-19 with a chronic health condition

Recovering from COVID-19 with a Chronic Health Condition. (Updated February 2022) It can be scary to think of the implications of contracting COVID-19 if you have underlying health issues and that’s especially so for those of us with poorly understood conditions, who receive minimal support (and often even acknowledgement) from our healthcare systems at the best of times. I’m extremely glad to be able to write this piece, to be sharing some insights with you, and hopefully offering some level of reassurance to those of you who are fearful about the implications of catching the virus.  I have Chronic Lyme and Coinfections as well as hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and I now consider myself lucky to have had Covid early on (March 2020), because we were already on the mend when the fear and hysteria were reaching their fever pitch. We didn't have time to worry about getting Covid because we were half way through it before we even realised what it was. Part of the challenge f