Long-Haul COVID Or Flu

When someone gets the flu or COVID, it can lower the immune system, allowing other opportunities for viruses such as Epstein-Barr to take hold.

There are many different strains of the flu. Some mild, some severe. If the same severe flu hits a group of people, the people with pre-existing viral-caused symptoms or conditions (whether they know about them or not) will likely face more difficult recoveries, unless they have the right understanding of the source of those underlying health issues and the right tools to deal with it all.

EBV and shingles are the two most common viruses to be triggered by a bad flu. Once they’re triggered, viral conditions and symptoms can take hold, such as Lyme, CFS, fibromyalgia, brain fog, tingles and numbness, weakness of the limbs, depression, and anxiety. For some people, those symptoms and conditions from EBV or other viruses were pre-existing, and the flu trigger either brought them back or brought them on stronger. For others, these symptoms or conditions from EBV or other viruses were developing inside the body and hadn’t yet surfaced—until the flu trigger. These were people on the cusp of low-grade chronic viral infection. Meanwhile, your friend could have gotten the same flu and after 10 days, been back on track with life, not even thinking about it anymore.

COVID is even more instigative as a trigger. This is a great source of confusion. Many people believe that COVID itself is the reason they’re struggling with newfound chronic symptoms. If someone develops breathing issues that become chronic because COVID injured their lungs, that’s a result of COVID. Someone could also have a slow recovery if COVID created a very high fever for a long time. But, the majority of lasting problems that people experience post-COVID aren’t COVID anymore. They’re pre-existing or unseen problems that got triggered by COVID—chronic symptoms that someone was already going to develop because of viral activity already in their body. It brought on future symptoms and conditions earlier in life, versus waiting 20-plus years to develop them.

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This item posted: 12-Sep-2025