Medscape August 14, 2024
Victoria Coble, 39, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was 4 months pregnant when she started having symptoms of COVID-19. Things got much worse with the birth of her son, including intense anxiety, depression, and trouble concentrating, which expanded into nausea, chest pain, post-exertional malaise (PEM), and more.
At first, she had trouble disentangling her pregnancy and postpartum symptoms with symptoms that are common with long COVID. “At the time, I confused all of it with postpartum depression,” Coble said. But 4 years later, the mother of two is still struggling just to get through the day.
Experts say pregnant women are diagnosed with long COVID in higher numbers than previously thought, although little historical data exist, and their symptoms are...
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