Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to read one paragraph from the support group submission we got. It is important because it chimes with what Dr. Lambert has said. It says:

It’s often the case that LC sufferers are so sick with one primary symptom that we may not have the ability to be able to mention all the other symptoms for months. One member in our support group explained she was so sick with respiratory issues that she couldn’t deal with telling her GP she had horrendous upper body tremors. She eventually had no choice after 8 months of living in hell with many weird symptom’s like suddenly taking a step sideways while she was standing at her kitchen counter, that she attended a Neurologist and has been diagnosed with a brain disorder ... There are thousands of others like her, and you must understand this is NOT a one size fits all scenario.

Is that something Dr. Lambert saw commonly in the thousand or so patients that came through his clinic?

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