LISTEN: Inside Australia's first long COVID clinic ABCNewsDaily
Sam Hawley : Hi, I'm Sam Hawley, coming to you from Gadigal Land. This is ABC News Daily. Three years into the pandemic, most of us have had at least one bout of COVID experiencing various degrees of illness. It's usually not that pleasant, but we recover. But for hundreds of thousands of Australians, the symptoms can last for months. Today we visit a long COVID clinic that's so busy it's having to turn away some patients suffering from the condition.
Anthony Byrne: Really busy,so you would say that, you know, we were oversubscribed, that we had hundreds of patients that were referred by general practitioners. They all need to have a GP referral, as would be the case for every specialist review. We had the capacity to see sort of 6 to 8 patients in the morning here in the clinic and then sort of a similar thing on a Wednesday and then we operate that every week.
Sam Hawley : Tell me you've just been with Paul this morning. And we're going to talk to him in a minute, But give me a sense of his treatment then, just so I've got an idea of what you actually do day in, day out with people like Paul. Paul : I think it was about four weeks after I became ill and my partner had recovered and I still feeling terrible. I was suspicious then, but after a couple of months I realised it was a real problem.Paul : Constantly tired, Constantly getting headaches, terrible memory, aches and pains. The fatigue was the most tedious part.
Paul : Look, it is very hard. I don't try not to think too much about it because it doesn't do much good because you're thinking about it doesn't make it go away, but it makes you a lot less active. I just couldn't do things, you know, when I couldn't go on outings and I had to just take it easy a lot more. And it's very frustrating because you look fine.
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