Anxiety & PTSD in PASC and ME/CFS

August 23, 2022
Bateman Horne Center has partnered with the University of Utah Health to conduct a Long COVID and Post-Viral Syndromes ECHO (Project ECHO). This series delivers information to healthcare professionals utilizing short didactics and case-based learning to enhance their ability to manage patients with long COVID, ME/CFS, FM, and related comorbid conditions.
**It is important to note, that this presentation focuses on how dysautonomia and sympathetic overdrive can present like anxiety and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. This does not rule out the existence of anxiety and PTSD, but rather informs on how these conditions can co-occur or be misdiagnosed.
The patient is strongly encouraged to work closely with their care team to determine the best course of action for their patient-specific needs.**
Brayden Yellman, MD, addresses anxiety and PTSD in those with PASC:
- Prevalence rates
- Systemic review of symptoms in those diagnosed with long COVID
- Understanding how COVID-19 could cause dysautonomia
- Reducing sympathetic nervous system signaling
- Approach to care and treatment
- Understanding how sympathetic overdrive impacts sleep
Note to community members: We advise viewers to always speak with their medical care team prior to making any adjustments or changes to their current regimen.
Bateman Horne Center’s involvement in this program is made possible with the additional support of the Open Medicine Foundation.

[@agustinsuarez2127]

Best Long Covid management educational videos on the web. Surprised they don't have more views.

[@paigezuckerman572]

Thank you from a chronic illness & medical trauma therapist 🙏🏻

[@barbh1]

I've been taking zoloft for years for terrible ptsd and claustrophobia, and I also have CFS or whatever you call it now. The medication helped a lot with the ptsd and claustrophobia, but CFS is the same.

[@marinabattaglia5385]

I had 3 SG injections for PASC, as part of a small study at the local hospital. It wasn’t the miracle cure as in the original paper, but it did get rid of that inner buzzing, improved sleep and I have less adrenaline surges.

[@zennenn]

Thanks, some new ideas here.

[@susantisdell1725]

Any population have Congenital heart problems? With Fibromyalgia? I have these along with double jointed. Tendons tend to be tightly.

[@CricketGirrl]

A little confusing. The slide on PTSD prevalence says PTSD rates are 12.19% at 1-3 months post-infection and 18.99% in patients followed for longer than three months. Yet the presenter says that PTSD DECREASES the further a patient is from infection, which contradicts the slide. It is apparent to me that having an acute illness like severe COVID would cause complex PTSD, because of the long-term medical abuse and gaslighting they would experience from people in positions of power over patients. It makes sense that at 1-3 months, you've got whatever PTSD a patient may or may not have going in, and then, after three months of trauma, they have complex PTSD, the same kind you get from child abuse. So the prevalence increases to 18% from 12%. Not the other way around.

[@patriciaritchie1783]

Extremely tedious. Not helpful. Seems real help is a long way off.