COVID patients are still reporting strange smells or tastes, persistently low oxygen levels, severe brain fog, memory loss, heart irregularities, digestive difficulties, and limb numbness or burning 10 years after treatment. Even mental and emotional anguish, rash, hair loss, and numerous additional symptoms linked to multiple organ systems have been recognized as constant worry following a COVID infection.
In Montana, doctors at Benefis Hospital’s Post COVID Recovery Program in Great Falls look for a variety of factors when examining medical history during intake appointments for COVID long-haulers, a growing group of patients who have symptoms that persist beyond 12 weeks after the initial infection.