“DOCTOR Mbuyi” as she usually calls me “I am dying because I really can’t understand what is happening to me, my whole body is paining, I feel weak and just very sick.”These are the words that a lady who is in her early 40s always tells me whenever she calls me. She would then continue, “I have done all the tests, nothing really comes up abnormal, but I know I am not well.”She would go on: “My head is always paining despite me taking all types of painkillers. I have this unbearable sensation accompanied with pain pulling behind my neck down to my back. Then most times I feel suffocated, I just run out of breath, I often feel so dizzy, almost passing out and I am always tired. I have tried to explain to my family what I am going through but they think I am lying, or just being delusional, they are even […]
‘LONG HAULER’ (LONG COVID): AN ‘INVISIBLE’ DIAGNOSIS
