Around 440 Long Covid patients have been reported to the Health Directorate by GPs and specialists since August last year. Some of these are receiving treatment at the rehabilitation clinic in Ettelbruck
Their symptoms include brain fog and lack of concentration, anxiety or physiological symptoms, causing them to develop secondary diseases, such as depression.
Gary Robinson is one of those afflicted. He caught Covid around Christmas 2020. For five weeks, he was plagued by headaches and breathing troubles, before his situation improved. Until two months later.
He started experiencing strange smells, was weak and quickly out of breath, developed intense headaches and brain fog and was unable to concentrate. He became depressed. The psychotherapy he’s getting in Ettelbruck is helping him a lot.
Dan Mathekowitsch’s Covid infection was also in December 2020. He had mild symptoms, but three days after his positive test, he lost his sense of smell and taste. They have not returned to this day, despite his best efforts.
At this stage, it is impossible to say whether these types of symptoms will ever go away. This is why the therapy in Ettelbruck also tries to teach people to integrate them into their life, to accept them and learn to deal with them, says Charel Benoy, psychologist at the rehabilitation clinic.
There is currently no medication for them, he adds. Research is still mostly focused on treating serious Covid infections.
