The symptoms started in March and persist. Doctors believe it may belong to the rare but existing group of long-term patients with covid-19. To soften the effects, the artist started a diary on instagram.
The report is published on the BBC and is impressive: six months after he started to experience symptoms of covid-19, Monique Jackson remains ill. He has kept a graphic diary on Instagram about his symptoms and treatment attempts.
One of the many people who have persistent symptoms of covid-19 and is suspected of being part of the group of long-term patients, something that is only now beginning to be studied by doctors. Why does the disease not leave some people, many of whom had mild symptoms of the disease at the beginning?
Monique Jackson fits the profile. He became ill in March. He had mild symptoms of the disease – the same ones that still persist. In the first two weeks he said he felt too much to get out of bed and although he could not measure the temperature (the thermometers were exhausted by that time), he believes he had a fever. It was also not tested on covid-19 at the time, as the tests were so few in the UK that they were only used in extremely severe cases. On the second week, he felt short of breath. Then chest pains. Stomach pains followed, which were added much later in the Sars-CoV-2 study to the list of symptoms of the disease.
In the weeks that followed, he felt pain in his body and itching. The doctors asked him: “How is your mental health?” He says he was never told “he has covid, but we don’t know how to treat”, but he doesn’t want to criticize the British public health service. Ensures that they did their best.
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