Former Dynasty star Emma Samms has said that she is still suffering symptoms of Covid-19 six months after being diagnosed.
The 59-year-old, who played Fallon Carrington Colby in the 1980s TV series, tested positive in March but was never hospitalised.
In an interview for the new issue of Cotswold Life magazine in the UK, Samms spoke of the exhaustion that she experiences - part of a cluster of symptoms that doctors and researchers have nicknamed 'Long Covid'.
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"This panic-inducing level of fatigue has been less startling and immensely compromising," she told the magazine.
"And it fluctuates. I improve slightly, have a couple of good days, and assume I am on the road to recovery, only to go right back to feeling horrendous."
Samms said she does not allow herself to think that the symptoms will be permanent.
"I used to be a ballet dancer and the mentality and self-discipline of pushing through an injury never really leaves you," she explained.
Listen to a discussion on 'Long Covid', as heard on Today with Sarah McInerney on RTÉ Radio 1 in July.
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