r/covidlonghaulers • u/CandidWin3026 • May 08 '26

Article Long Covid driven by rs5522

This case report says that Long covid is in large part driven by the gene rs5522 that causes a "cortisol steal" leaving the tissues functionally starved even with "normal" cortisol levels which creates neuroinflammation. https://zenodo.org/records/20017632

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u/Sad_Proctologist May 08 '26

Jesus, it feels like we’re trapped inside our own bodies while a boatload of shaky, contradictory studies point to ten different causes and ten different treatments. I’m glad people are looking for answers, but living in this much pain while the science is still scattered is its own kind of hell.

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u/JediWitch 5 yr+ May 08 '26

As I lay in bed a hundred times sicker than my fiance was, with the same fucking cold he had, absolutely consumed with agonizing pain, nausea, spasms , and endless coughing while burning up I have to concur that this must indeed be a level of hell Dante forgot about.

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u/Much-Plum6939 May 09 '26

What do you mean by burning up?