8 Celebs Who Have Struggled With Lengthy COVID

Sadly, many docs do not have solutions as to why sure persons are affected by COVID long run, and remedy choices are nonetheless being researched. Even celebrities, who usually have entry to among the greatest medical care, are being impacted by Lengthy COVID. Stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Bethenny Frankel have been extremely open about their journey — and hopefully as they discover solutions, they may also help others too.

Discover out what these stars needed to say about Lengthy COVID…

1. Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow says “that after having COVID early on” within the pandemic, she started to expertise long-term signs like fatigue and mind fog. For the previous two years, Gwyneth has now been treating Lengthy COVID, particularly by means of a really explicit weight loss program. That features fasting till midday and having meals like bone broth for lunch and greens for dinner.

“I’ve Lengthy COVID, and the best way it manifests for me could be very excessive ranges of irritation over time,” she shared on Instagram, including that she’s been “working with Dr. [Will] Cole to essentially give attention to meals that are not inflammatory.”

She continued, “That is primarily based on my medical outcomes and in depth testing that I’ve carried out over time…It is actually simply what has labored for me. It has been very highly effective and really constructive.”

2. Bethenny Frankel

Bethenny Frankel has been combating well being points for fairly a while, starting with a battle with auto-immune disorder POTS. After contracting COVID, it seemingly exacerbated the situation, and she or he’s since been coping with quite a few different signs. Along with fatigue, dizziness and a quick coronary heart price attributable to POTS, Bethenny says she additionally recurrently experiences “extreme aches and pains in [her] neck.” After experiencing a near-fatal allergic response to fish final yr, Bethenny is now doing no matter she will be able to to seek out solutions.

“I’m on a medical journey and I’m severe about getting solutions. From lengthy COVID to physique ache to dehydration to darkish circles to autoimmune issues, it is rather a lot to course of and digest. I’ve discovered that doing issues piecemeal in life and in well being does not work. I have to deal with this puzzle,” she wrote on Instagram. “I do not care how I look. I do not care how others suppose I look. I care about how I really feel and about being wholesome for my daughter, my family members and for you.”

3. Billie Eilish

After having COVID in 2022, Billie Eilish says it took months for her to get well. Whereas she says coping with the preliminary an infection was “depressing” and “horrible,” she remained sick for nearly two months.

“It was unhealthy. I imply, I did not die, and I wasn’t gonna die, however that doesn’t take away from how depressing it was. It was horrible. I nonetheless have negative effects. I used to be sick for, like, two months virtually,” she mentioned on “The Howard Stern Show,” including, “I believe if I weren’t vaccinated, I’d have, like, died, as a result of it was unhealthy.”

4. Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell has skilled COVID twice, and he says that the primary time he was sick, it took him months to get well. Whereas being interviewed shortly after his second an infection, Colin mentioned he deliberate to put low within the hopes of avoiding long-term signs once more.

“Each occasions I’ve had it, I received a great whack for 3 or 4 days, but it surely likes to have a little bit of a shindig. Simply the whole lot, temperature, complications,” he advised “CBS Sunday Morning,” including, “I’ll do little or no now for the subsequent whereas…the primary time I went out a couple of week after testing detrimental, and I began operating once more. I messed myself up and received the lengthy COVID for about six months.”

5. Salma Hayek

Early on within the pandemic, Salma Hayek had a extreme case of COVID that just about landed her within the hospital. Whereas her physician begged her to test herself in, Salma mentioned she’d “reasonably die at dwelling.” Salma ended up isolating in a room in her dwelling for seven weeks, and even after, she nonetheless skilled signs. She spent a lot of 2020 recovering and was unable to return to work till the next yr.

“It form of lingered. It took me some time to get well. I did, however then I had lengthy COVID. I used to be drained rather a lot till I received the vaccination. For some purpose, I really feel positive now…I had plenty of palpitations. I believed it was anxiousness. It seems it’s one among COVID signs. No one was speaking about that half,” she mentioned on “Live With Kelly and Ryan.“

6. Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano’s journey with COVID started in early 2020 with an acute an infection that left her with signs like shortness of breath, lack of scent, and coronary heart palpitations. Whereas she examined detrimental after 12 days, she says she has regularly skilled signs. In 2022, Alyssa shared {that a} CT scan revealed the small blood vessels in her lungs have been working at solely 30% capability.

“I’ve all the time had each single symptom conceivable, so each symptom that they checklist whether or not it’s from acute COVID or lengthy COVID, I’ve had. Shortness of breath, coronary heart palpitations, mind fog, exhaustion at 4 o’clock within the night, tingling in my palms and toes and simply forgetfulness,” she advised NBC New York.

Whereas she’s been receiving remedy, Alyssa says she is still struggling in 2023.

7. Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham has handled many well being points all through her life, together with Lengthy COVID at one level. After contracting the virus in early 2020 and spending a month isolating, she shared that she was nonetheless experiencing signs in July of that yr. She says she suffered from fatigue and an “unceasing migraine[s]” in addition to swollen palms and toes. Her physician later found that her pituitary gland had “virtually fully ceased to perform” and her arthritis had flared.

“The intense long-term well being penalties of a Covid-19 an infection are one thing docs are studying extra about each hour. Now we have by no means moved this quick in drugs – we have by no means needed to – and specialists are performing some unimaginable work with containment and prevention. However we do not but perceive the long run affect of this sickness on folks’s our bodies and minds” she wrote on Instagram.

8. Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro first caught COVID in December 2021 and 5 months later, he shared that he was nonetheless experiencing signs. In an Instagram post, Dave wrote that he was coping with fatigue and did not know when he would really feel like his outdated self. That September, Dave needed to again out of a Jane’s Habit tour whereas he handled signs — and he nonetheless hasn’t returned to work with the band as a result of well being points.

“So yeah, I am one of many ones who got here down with the ‘lengthy haul covid.’ Been sick since December and supposedly will probably be again to my outdated self in… no person is aware of how lengthy,” he wrote within the now-deleted publish. “If there are any of you who’re nonetheless struggling lengthy after your detrimental outcomes, I am simply saying you are not alone. The fatigue and isolation is fairly terrible however attempt to spend your time with those you’re keen on and keep inventive. That is how I am making an attempt to get by means of this factor. Additionally a number of non secular practices, meditation and yoga have been very useful. I will be okay, simply do not know when.”