TLC Sessions - Living with Long Covid

Guy Leschziner is a professor of neurology and sleep medicine, leader of a sleep disorder clinic, sleep author, BBC Radio 4 'Mysteries of Sleep' broadcaster... this man knows a lot about sleep. He is also part of a Long Covid clinical team. This week we use the breadth of his expertise to talk through the impact of Long Covid on sleep and the impact of sleep on Long Covid. He shares his knowledge of the potential therapies for sleep disturbances, giving practical advice on how we can start addressing our sleep issues - simple steps we can take at home and help that is available via your GP.

Living with Long Covid? How was your week?
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Consultant Neurologist Dr. Hadi Manji is part of the team leading a new clinic for neurology patients with ‘Long Covid’ at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) with funding from the National Brain Appeal. The COVID Neurology Clinic will focus on complaints such as headache, ‘brain fog’, muscle weakness and brain inflammation in patients recovering from the COVID-19 virus. He speaks to us at the The Long Covid Sessions about what he thinks is affecting the post-Covid brain in some people and causing some of the many neurological symptoms. He explains in broad terms what is going on in the body and offers some advice to help ease the symptoms.

Living with Long Covid? How was your week?
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Physiotherapist Darren Brown is a Long Covid sufferer and founder of Long Covid Physio. In our conversation this week he lays out the fundamentals of our rehabilitation needs and explains how pacing might be the key to getting a handle on our symptoms. He takes his experience working in HIV and Oncology rehabilitation and demonstrates how we can apply our knowledge of treating those conditions, with their fluctuating health challenges, when facing Long Covid. Patient advocate, peer supporter and a strong voice leading the charge in developing an understanding of the needs of Long Covid sufferers, Darren opens our eyes to the breadth of the role physio might have in our recovery.

Living with Long Covid? How was your week?
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As the start of the school year approaches, we look at the impact of Long Covid on children and their parents. We talk to Frances Simpson, one of the founders of Long Covid Kids, about her 18 month struggle to get medical attention for her own children whilst battling with Long Covid herself, and how she has chosen to be an advocate for children and parents in the UK and beyond. We also speak to two teenage Long Covid sufferers, Kitty McFarland and Liliana Jackson.

Living with Long Covid? How was your week?
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What if some of your Long Covid symptoms could be improved by changing your breathing? In this week’s episode respiratory physiotherapist and Long Covid sufferer, Robin McNelis, explains the science behind some of us being given breathing exercises. From breathlessness to fatigue and gastrointestinal issues, changes to breathing in the acute phase of COVID-19 could have had a dramatic effect on our subsequent symptoms. So even if you don’t think you have lung issues, it is worth listening to Robin.
Once a regular marathon runner, he talks us through his personal journey of Long Covid and gives sanguine advice, from first hand experience, of the benefits of serious pacing.

Living with Long Covid? How was your week?
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