Explore the complete LongCovidJourney library of Long COVID articles, research and practical guides, from our latest posts to earlier articles.
Our evidence-informed content covers symptoms, PEM, fatigue, brain fog, POTS and dysautonomia, sleep, pacing, treatment and management, emerging research, emotional wellbeing and everyday life with Long COVID.
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Cerebral Blood Flow and Long COVID: Why Your Brain MRI Can Be Normal
The article highlights the renewed focus on brain blood flow abnormalities in post-COVID patients experiencing neurological symptoms. A rapid MRI protocol allows detailed imaging of the cerebral venous network, potentially revealing dysfunctions contributing to conditions like Long COVID and ME CFS. This could enhance diagnostics and treatment strategies for affected individuals.
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Sleep Problems in Long Covid: Why You Feel Exhausted But Cannot Sleep
The sleep disturbances faced by individuals with Long Covid stem from biological changes affecting circadian rhythms, immune responses, and nervous system balance. Symptoms include variable fatigue, cognitive hyperactivity at night, and sensory sensitivities. Effective management requires understanding these disruptions, emphasizing compassionate strategies like meditation, environmental adjustments, and mindful pacing for recovery.
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Hair Loss after Covid: What the Evidence Shows and Why It Happens
Long COVID Hair Loss Explained: Why It Happens, When It Starts and Will Your Hair Grow Back? Hair Loss After COVID: Understanding the Science Behind a Common Long COVID Symptom A few months after recovering from COVID-19, you notice something unexpected. There is far more hair than usual on your pillow. Your hairbrush fills more…
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Pets and Long COVID: Tips for Low-Energy Days
Managing pets while dealing with long COVID can be challenging yet rewarding. Different pets require varying energy levels; low-energy pets like fish or cats may offer companionship without much effort, while dogs demand more attention. With careful planning and energy management, pets can enhance mental health and provide a comforting presence.
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Why is standing still harder than walking with Long COVID?
Why can standing still feel harder than walking with Long COVID? This article explains how blood pooling, the calf muscle pump and autonomic dysfunction can make queues, conversations and waiting upright surprisingly difficult.
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Why IV Fluids Help Some Long Covid Patients and Harm Others
Intravenous (IV) fluids can significantly aid some Long Covid patients by improving circulation temporarily, but they can exacerbate symptoms in others due to issues like endothelial dysfunction and microcirculation problems. Understanding individual responses requires examining underlying biological factors, as indiscriminate use may worsen symptoms rather than provide relief.
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Dizziness After COVID and Long COVID: Why You Feel Faint and What Helps
Dizziness is a prevalent but misunderstood symptom in long Covid, often misdiagnosed. It arises from various mechanisms, including autonomic dysfunction, cerebral hypoperfusion, and vestibular involvement, rather than just anxiety. Effective management involves understanding these complexities, focusing on patient education, and reducing symptoms through non-invasive strategies without excessive testing.
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Should You Exercise With Long COVID? Why the Answer Depends on Post-Exertional Malaise
Exercise can harm Long COVID patients experiencing post-exertional malaise (PEM), contradicting standard advice to increase activity. Current research indicates that exercise exacerbates biological abnormalities in these patients, rather than improving their condition. Pacing, not exercise, is the recommended approach for managing PEM to avoid severe symptom flare-ups.
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Why Did I Suddenly Develop New Food Intolerances After Covid?
Have foods you once tolerated suddenly started causing bloating, flushing, headaches or fatigue after COVID? Discover why new food intolerances are common in Long COVID, the possible role of histamine intolerance and mast cell activation, and practical ways to identify your personal triggers.
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Dizziness and Vertigo in Long Covid: What Is Happening and What Actually Helps
Last updated: August 2026 | Brain fog friendly Dizziness is one of the most unsettling symptoms of Long COVID. It can feel as though the room is spinning, as though you’re about to faint, or simply as though your balance has disappeared overnight. The confusing part is that these sensations can have completely different causes,…
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People the Internet Cannot Reach: Severe Long Covid and the Proxy Layer
This article highlights the neglect of severely ill Long Covid patients who are housebound or bedbound and largely excluded from online communities and research. Their unique challenges, such as cognitive and sensory limitations, hinder participation in digital forums. The proxy layer, consisting of caregivers, navigates these patients’ needs, emphasizing the necessity for inclusive support and…
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How to Stop Long Covid Getting Worse: Pacing, PEM, Reinfection and Recovery
Long COVID does not always worsen over time, but certain factors—including repeated post-exertional malaise (PEM), reinfection, pushing beyond your energy limits and returning to intense exercise too soon—may increase the risk of prolonged symptoms. While there is no guaranteed way to prevent worsening, research suggests that pacing, avoiding repeated crashes, reducing reinfection risk and managing…
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Long COVID and the Gut: What the Microbiome Research Really Shows
Long COVID gut research is rapidly changing our understanding of the condition. Scientists now believe the gut microbiome may influence inflammation, the immune system, brain fog and many of the symptoms experienced by people living with Long COVID. Someone in a Facebook group mentioned Candida. Or fungi. Or something about parasites and leaky gut and…
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Why Can I Not Find the Right Word Anymore?
Struggling to find everyday words after COVID? Word finding difficulty is one of the most common symptoms of Long COVID brain fog. Discover why it happens, how it differs from memory loss and what current research says about recovery.
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Living With Long Covid Day to Day: Everything You Need to Know in 4 Minutes
Reading time: 4 minutes | Last updated: July 2026 | Brain fog friendly Living with Long COVID day to day is very different from understanding it clinically. The clinical articles explain what Long Covid does to your body. This one explains what it does to your life. To your days, your relationships, your work, your…
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The Cure for Long COVID: Apparently, It’s Everything
Long COVID has been “cured” by exercise, rest, yoga, breathing, cold water, vagus nerve devices and dozens of other approachesat least according to headlines. This evidence-based guide separates genuine symptom relief, promising research and personal recovery stories from claims of a cure.
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Could Tiny Blood Vessel Problems Be Driving Long COVID?
Could problems affecting the tiny blood vessels explain Long COVID? Discover what endothelial dysfunction is, how it may affect oxygen delivery and why researchers are studying its link with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia, PEM and microclots.
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Can herbal medicines help Long Covid?
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Long COVID and the Immune System: Why It Can Be Both Overactive and Underactive
Long Covid presents a complex immune dysfunction characterized by simultaneous hyperactivity and hypoactivity, leading to inflammation, immune exhaustion, autoimmunity, and reactivation of latent viruses. Patients face chronic immune dysregulation, resulting in persistent fatigue and increased vulnerability to infections. Understanding these interconnected mechanisms is crucial for effective management and treatment.
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How to Survive a Heatwave with Long COVID: Practical Tips for POTS, Dysautonomia and Chronic Illness
New to this topic? This guide focuses on practical strategies to cope with hot weather. If you would like to understand why heat makes Long COVID symptoms worse, including the role of autonomic dysfunction, POTS, blood pooling and impaired thermoregulation, we recommend reading our companion article Why Heat Makes Long COVID So Much Worse: The Science Behind Heat Intolerance first.…
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Why the People You Love Find Long Covid So Hard to Believe
Long COVID affects more than the body—it changes relationships. Learn why fluctuating symptoms, delayed crashes and normal-looking days can make the condition difficult for loved ones to understand, and what can help patients and families communicate more effectively.
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Long COVID and the Gut: How Your Microbiome, Immune System and Brain Are Connected
Your gut and your brain fog may be more connected than anyone told you. This is what the research actually shows.
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Long COVID Heat Intolerance: Why Heat Makes Symptoms Worse
Long COVID heat intolerance is one of the most common but least understood symptoms experienced by people living with Long COVID, POTS and dysautonomia. Everyone else thinks the heatwave is great. You are lying very still with the curtains shut wondering why a warm sunny day feels like a physiological attack. You are not being dramatic.…