A crippling symptom of long COVID? Insomnia. CBS News spoke to a woman who experienced this, and doctors say she's not alone.
"At one point I counted 23 symptoms," Mathew told CBS News."The most alarming ones were shortness of breath, labored breathing, heart palpitations.""Nothing worked. I would just lie awake in agony all night," she recounted."It felt like electric shocks going through my body from my head down to my toes."
Mathew isn't alone. Dr. Emmanuel During, a psychiatrist and neurologist, has been seeing this in sleep patients at Mount Sinai Hospital., he says insomnia is often related to pain and is resistant to treatment. "Pain, which can occur at night as well, and a lot of autonomic imbalance, autonomic impairment, which is the ability of our body to control heart rate and blood pressures — that can lead to episodes of palpitation, night sweats," During explains.Nearly a third of Americans said they've experienced sleep disturbances since COVID began, according to a 2022 survey from the. That's down from 56% the year before. The phenomenon is described as"COVID-somnia.
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