For Texans with long COVID, specialized centers can provide more effective treatments — if they can access them

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For Texans with long COVID, specialized centers can provide more effective treatments — if they can access them
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Long COVID clinics in Texas are few and far between, often with months-long waitlists. But these centers can provide care that validates stigmatized patients, offers unique treatments and teaches physicians more about the new condition.

Health care workers wheel portable oxygen tanks to patients in the COVID care unit of Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant on Aug. 19, 2021.After going for a quick run last year, weeks out from a mild COVID-19 infection, Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez returned home more exhausted than usual. She broke out in hives and felt a migraine crash down on her.

While some scientific research has made advances in care, there are still so many questions left on long COVID’s wide ranging symptoms, treatments and effects. But some of these clinics shuttered after a year, some refocused on inpatient-only care for people coming out of the ICU with COVID, and some were rehab centers unspecific to long COVID care. All the while, wait times at those clinics still existing have ebbed and flowed with surges of the virus. Many Texans don’t even know to look for the specific care, and for those who do, a stigma around whether long COVID actually “exists” has yet to subside, Verduzco-Gutierrez said.

“I kept saying, if this is menopause, we would never see any middle-aged women, ever,” she said. “We just wouldn't be able to leave the house.” These are people who had little to no health issues before but whose bodies either struggled to fully eliminate the virus and continue to take damage from it, or had their immune system flare as a result of viral infection, he said.

After months of specialized testing and treatment, Weill received a convalescent plasma infusion, which resulted in his first negative COVID test in almost a year. This infusion allowed his body to fight the infection.“The clinic had more freedom, based on their experience, to treat me in a different way,” Weill said. “It was just a wealth of experience.”, which allows Ostrosky to conduct more research trials on the best treatments for different kinds of long COVID, Otrosky said.

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