And the thing is, too many of us still don’t really know what long covid is.
I’ve had fatigue for a good year since having covid. Literally do my day job and then in bed.
Judging by this sub, nobody seems to care anymore. And I’m pretty much the only person still wearing a mask on public transport, in shops, etc. Never had Covid and I’d rather stay in good health, so will continue to wear my FFP3 in crowded indoor environments. A minor inconvenience to avoid chronic organ/neurological damage from Long Covid.
Getting lazy and developing social issues because of lockdown isn’t ‘long covid’ lol.
I developed Sarcoidosis after covid. I went to the GP a month after recovering from Covid with a continuing cough and fatigue. Got rushed through the “is it cancer?” track within 6 weeks – x-rays, MRI, lung biopsy, and once confirmed not to be cancerous the only remaining diagnosis was sarcoidosis.
This is a fun thing to be managing – fatigue and regular shortness of breath are my major symptoms. At least the cough seems to have mostly cleared up.
With no treatment, no cure, no recovery predictions other than “it might get better by itself, it might get worse, it might not!”.
🎉
My neighbour was a bit weird before covid. You’d say eccentric perhaps? Anyway, now she’s a complete recluse that *never* leaves the house. Her husband says she’s physically fine, but she won’t go outside – full-on Agoraphobia.
Covid has fucked-up a lot of people mentally. There might not be a million people with *actual* physical manifestations (or there might be, we’ll never know) but there’ll easily be that if you include the psychological stuff – after all, making yourself sick is still a sickness of sorts.
We have several people at work who are still off in some cases two years post infection. I had it over a year ago and still get brain fog, word blindness and quickly run out if steam if I over exert for example heavy digging at my allotment or carrying bags of shopping
I’ve always worried that Covid could be doing invisible damage to a generation that will surface in the future
Hopefully not, but could be a massive scandal brewing that it was never taken seriously
I think that’s called being double jabbed and boosted
Meanwhile every Sunday where I live there is a vociferous group of anti vaxxers still performing their clown show
Reading some of the comments here I got off lightly with my 6 months of shortness of breath/fatigue.
Anyone heard any rumblings or comparisons of “long covid” being analgous to Myalgic encephalomyelitis “ME/CFS” after something like Mono?
I felt miserable with Covid, everything was difficult. I was 26 years old at the time and genuinely felt 40 years older.
It’s been over a year now since I had it and I have found my breathing is laboured, I feel fatigued every single day (I don’t even have the energy to cook anymore), wake up with migraines/headaches far more frequently and I can’t seem to focus or think straight.
And, the biggest atrocity – I can’t seem to taste garlic or onion anymore.
I am not sure how much of my symptoms are depression rather than long covid, but I do know it changed me in some way. Life has become pretty miserable.
I had it in November 2020. It was relatively mild, like a minor cold but my sense of smell disappeared completely. Today I still can’t smell certain things particularly sulfur, gas from the cooker or farts. I managed a year of nappy changes without the smell of poo and stale urine from the nappy bucket making me gag so there was one good outcome!
Developed parosmia and breathing difficulties after having it back in march.
Still hasn’t gone.
29 year old athlete to bedbound two years. Good times. If we could maybe invest in biomedical research instead of exercise, diet and psychology studies that’d be great. It’s clearly not rare, it affects the economy… where tf is the holdup?
Had it for well over a year and couldn’t shake the fatigue and shortness of breath. Never experienced anything like it, went from going gym 6x a week to struggling to get through a work shift.
Tried describing it to everyone but could never do it justice
I’ve definitely had issues with shortness of breath and fatigue. I’ve had times where I’ve lost my breath mid sentence and had to take a breather, it’s really bizarre.
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And the thing is, too many of us still don’t really know what long covid is.
I’ve had fatigue for a good year since having covid. Literally do my day job and then in bed.
Judging by this sub, nobody seems to care anymore. And I’m pretty much the only person still wearing a mask on public transport, in shops, etc. Never had Covid and I’d rather stay in good health, so will continue to wear my FFP3 in crowded indoor environments. A minor inconvenience to avoid chronic organ/neurological damage from Long Covid.
Getting lazy and developing social issues because of lockdown isn’t ‘long covid’ lol.
I developed Sarcoidosis after covid. I went to the GP a month after recovering from Covid with a continuing cough and fatigue. Got rushed through the “is it cancer?” track within 6 weeks – x-rays, MRI, lung biopsy, and once confirmed not to be cancerous the only remaining diagnosis was sarcoidosis.
This is a fun thing to be managing – fatigue and regular shortness of breath are my major symptoms. At least the cough seems to have mostly cleared up.
With no treatment, no cure, no recovery predictions other than “it might get better by itself, it might get worse, it might not!”.
🎉
My neighbour was a bit weird before covid. You’d say eccentric perhaps? Anyway, now she’s a complete recluse that *never* leaves the house. Her husband says she’s physically fine, but she won’t go outside – full-on Agoraphobia.
Covid has fucked-up a lot of people mentally. There might not be a million people with *actual* physical manifestations (or there might be, we’ll never know) but there’ll easily be that if you include the psychological stuff – after all, making yourself sick is still a sickness of sorts.
We have several people at work who are still off in some cases two years post infection. I had it over a year ago and still get brain fog, word blindness and quickly run out if steam if I over exert for example heavy digging at my allotment or carrying bags of shopping
I’ve always worried that Covid could be doing invisible damage to a generation that will surface in the future
Hopefully not, but could be a massive scandal brewing that it was never taken seriously
I think that’s called being double jabbed and boosted
Meanwhile every Sunday where I live there is a vociferous group of anti vaxxers still performing their clown show
Reading some of the comments here I got off lightly with my 6 months of shortness of breath/fatigue.
Anyone heard any rumblings or comparisons of “long covid” being analgous to Myalgic encephalomyelitis “ME/CFS” after something like Mono?
I felt miserable with Covid, everything was difficult. I was 26 years old at the time and genuinely felt 40 years older.
It’s been over a year now since I had it and I have found my breathing is laboured, I feel fatigued every single day (I don’t even have the energy to cook anymore), wake up with migraines/headaches far more frequently and I can’t seem to focus or think straight.
And, the biggest atrocity – I can’t seem to taste garlic or onion anymore.
I am not sure how much of my symptoms are depression rather than long covid, but I do know it changed me in some way. Life has become pretty miserable.
I had it in November 2020. It was relatively mild, like a minor cold but my sense of smell disappeared completely. Today I still can’t smell certain things particularly sulfur, gas from the cooker or farts. I managed a year of nappy changes without the smell of poo and stale urine from the nappy bucket making me gag so there was one good outcome!
Developed parosmia and breathing difficulties after having it back in march.
Still hasn’t gone.
29 year old athlete to bedbound two years. Good times. If we could maybe invest in biomedical research instead of exercise, diet and psychology studies that’d be great. It’s clearly not rare, it affects the economy… where tf is the holdup?
Had it for well over a year and couldn’t shake the fatigue and shortness of breath. Never experienced anything like it, went from going gym 6x a week to struggling to get through a work shift.
Tried describing it to everyone but could never do it justice
I’ve definitely had issues with shortness of breath and fatigue. I’ve had times where I’ve lost my breath mid sentence and had to take a breather, it’s really bizarre.