Had Covid in July. Still feeling ‘drunk’ constantly. Hair has fallen out drastically (no history of hair loss in family), panic attacks, insomnia, lack of energy, can’t concentrate at work. And I’m a mild case.
There are zero treatments for this. We don’t even know how Long Covid happens. It baffles me people are still walking around unmasked knowing any infection can literally disable them permanently (at this point) or make them chronically ill.
oh man the fatigue and brain fog is real. I struggle so much with my vocabulary at the moment – i literally cant remember words
I’m triple jabbed and got it in August.
I’m a fitness freak and the fatigue I got was crazy weeks afterward.
My 6k rowing times cratered. My lifts reduced by a noticeable amount. It’s a weird virus.
I’m not sure if I’ve got covid, but I fell ill a few days and I have this brain fog I keep hearing about. It’s not pleasant at all. I feel like I just woke up after a smoke sesh with Snoop Dogg or something. Can’t really concentrate on anything that isn’t cartoons or shite on youtube. Just desperate to get better now. I need to get back to work asap. I’m not yet eligible for sick pay from my employers so things could get bad real quick
I’ve had it but never had a positive test. I’ve had blocked tear ducts in both eyes for over 2 year now causing headaches, blurred vision and my eyes are itchy and sore, went to Specsavers they told me it was blocked tear ducts then refers me to my doctor, 1 month later I get an appointment for a telephone consultation, wtf use is that! This is all down to covid and on top of that I still have problems breathing, chronic tiredness and brain fog. Still working but it’s been hard not to phone in sick sometimes
Just tested positive for COVID, feeling rough. Really hope it doesn’t turn into long COVID.
I caught it last July, my breathing has never fully recovered and I can’t shake the fatigue no matter how much I exercise
Genuinely worried it won’t ever come back
I had a mild “cold” just as Covid was getting attention over here. Didn’t think it was Covid because of how mild it was and because I was really healthy and in the best condition I’ve ever been.
Fast forward a few weeks and I’m sitting in hospital getting a mri, blood tests, ecg and everything in between to try and figure out why i was constanly dizzy, couldn’t remember anything and couldn’t walk more than a few metres before falling over. I felt like I was actually dying.
This went on for over a year and the symptoms started to fade a bit. 3 years on I’m still dizzy to the point I can’t walk far, I have a constant headache, chest and breathing problems and I have to make a list for everything because I can’t remember the word chocolate or coffee or cheese when I’m asked what I want or i am ordering something. It’s embarrassing and frustrating when you can’t find the words when having a conversation. It’s ruined hobbies and interests because I can’t focus enough to enjoy them and it’s destroyed any confidence I had when talking to people because the words just aren’t there when I need them.
It’s so hard to explain to people what this feels like and how hard it is only a daily basis. It’s life destroying.
Got Covid end of March 2020 at work. Rang in sick, 1/4/20. Went back on the books 1/10/20 but left at home, as I couldn’t do more than get up go downstairs and return later. Had 25 symptoms. Called 999 day 5. Didn’t turn up. Rang the following night turned up and said I had anxiety.
Week 4 coughing blood. Called gp told to go to a and e. They wouldn’t let me in. End up in a tent in the car park. I’m sat on a chair mask safety specs and gloves. Doctor walks in No PPE stethoscope on my back. No aneurism. Told to go. Gp wasn’t happy, as no X-ray bolds extra. Ended up in hospital 3 weeks later. Saw ten gps over first 12 months all via FaceTime.
Couldn’t get a respiratory appointment. Called a private hospital and saw a NHS consultant in a week. Calls cost £200 per call. CT scans were £750 each. Cost in total £3k.
Emailed my MP Miriam Cates. Useless. Apparently, emails sent to the same email address don’t always arrive?
Long Covid clinic advised GP where to send me.
All pointless.
18 months to recover.
I will never clap, bang a pot or pan for the NHS.
Before everyone goes berserk, I don’t blame individuals but they were shit.
I retire in 4 weeks and go to 999 calls for a living and have done all my service doing so. I’ve gone to guns, knives, swords and gangs fighting. Always turned up.
I’m truly disgusted and disappointed by my treatment.
The only good thing was I survived, some didn’t.
Does anyone else struggle to tell if it’s brain fog from COVID or if they’re just getting dumber?
I’m 28, finally caught covid after 3 years of family working with it.
It’s wiped me right out. I’ve been breathless and really tired for weeks.
I had pneumonia previously and that was nothing in comparison.
I have MS and a whole lot of the symptoms sound like mine. I wouldn’t be surprised if people with long covid develop it. I have fatigue and brain fog pretty frequently and it sucks.
There is some spectacular ignorance on display in this comment section
Covid triggered my Graves Disease, my endocrinologist said that she’s seen loads of people in their 20s who’s onset of symptoms started the moment they got Covid – I think a lot of long Covid may have developed into thyroid issues / autoimmune diseases not yet picked up
Edit: grammar
All through this pandemic and the places I’ve been for people which are the elderly and disabled I’m yet to get covid once , it’s been through my household 4 times and I’m the one that looked after everyone as well. It really baffles me how some get it and the rare small amount aren’t that covid has absolutely no effect on like myself.
Not sure if it was covid but omega 3 supplements cured my brain fog.
I still mask up when I’m out as I have permanent lung damage from long covid, combined with chronic fatigue which never used to be an issue.
I caught covid three times due to others flouting rules without consideration for others back at its height.
I know we have to get back to a functional society sooner rather than later, but the folks who didn’t bother outright are the very reason i ended up like this so there’s honestly lingering contempt in me for anti vaxxers, anti maskers and the like.
I now have shortness of breath and who knows how long of getting exhausted to the point of needing sleep just from waking up, showering and moving between two floors of a house.
That’s on top of my pre-existing mental health issues.
Not saying everyone should still be forced to mask etc. Just saying I’ll never forgive asshats who were too selfish at the height of it to even contemplate consideration for others.
I had Covid. I went from being able to walk several miles without breaking a sweat to being unable to walk the 10 minutes to our shop without being exhausted and falling asleep on the sofa every night and constantly forgetting things. It sucks, hard and makes me feel like a failure.
I work in a covid vaccination centre. The amount of cretins coming in for the jab without a mask is just baffling me. And they’re arguing with me when I ask them to wear a damn mask, that they cannot breathe or whatever what bollocks for fucking 1minute!! That’s all what it takes to take a Covid jab. In the past month half of my colleagues had covid because of those morons. From January I am done with the job. I had covid twice anyway, and I am not willing to fuckup my lungs because of this kind of retrograde people.
Lets clap for NHS, while we’re infect’em with covid.
Welcome to the club. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia several years before covid 19 spread. It causes crippling widespread musculoskeletal pain and debilitating chronic fatigue. Despite my best efforts to get better and push through, my life is ruined. I’m 25.
I pity anyone who has to go through shit like this.
Just had covid and tested clear on Tuesday.
I can’t work for more than a couple of hours without falling asleep. But not being able to hold a coherent conversation is the bit that has really got to me.
Yeah, I should have stayed masked up.
Never much mentioned that Covid is more of a blood disease then respiratory and about 3 weeks ago a interesting discussion on one way it gets to the lungs is if people have any gum disease it makes its way down the juggler vein to the heart then feeds into the lungs.
Unfortunately, the ME/CFS community has faced this for decades.
Anyone here struggle with muscle pain and tiredness? I’ve just got over intense pain in my neck, shoulders and back for a year after covid. I’m 29 btw so I shouldn’t of been like that.
This is the sort of fatigue I’ve experienced when I’ve over-exerted myself during a Crohn’s flare. Not long covid, but it’s really horrible and I feel for anyone going through this. Drs and people don’t take you seriously when you try and explain that even emailing takes *effort* to focus. Let alone going out and shopping or seeing friends. I was bedridden for a week and the drs didn’t care.
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Had Covid in July. Still feeling ‘drunk’ constantly. Hair has fallen out drastically (no history of hair loss in family), panic attacks, insomnia, lack of energy, can’t concentrate at work. And I’m a mild case.
There are zero treatments for this. We don’t even know how Long Covid happens. It baffles me people are still walking around unmasked knowing any infection can literally disable them permanently (at this point) or make them chronically ill.
oh man the fatigue and brain fog is real. I struggle so much with my vocabulary at the moment – i literally cant remember words
I’m triple jabbed and got it in August.
I’m a fitness freak and the fatigue I got was crazy weeks afterward.
My 6k rowing times cratered. My lifts reduced by a noticeable amount. It’s a weird virus.
I’m not sure if I’ve got covid, but I fell ill a few days and I have this brain fog I keep hearing about. It’s not pleasant at all. I feel like I just woke up after a smoke sesh with Snoop Dogg or something. Can’t really concentrate on anything that isn’t cartoons or shite on youtube. Just desperate to get better now. I need to get back to work asap. I’m not yet eligible for sick pay from my employers so things could get bad real quick
I’ve had it but never had a positive test. I’ve had blocked tear ducts in both eyes for over 2 year now causing headaches, blurred vision and my eyes are itchy and sore, went to Specsavers they told me it was blocked tear ducts then refers me to my doctor, 1 month later I get an appointment for a telephone consultation, wtf use is that! This is all down to covid and on top of that I still have problems breathing, chronic tiredness and brain fog. Still working but it’s been hard not to phone in sick sometimes
Just tested positive for COVID, feeling rough. Really hope it doesn’t turn into long COVID.
I caught it last July, my breathing has never fully recovered and I can’t shake the fatigue no matter how much I exercise
Genuinely worried it won’t ever come back
I had a mild “cold” just as Covid was getting attention over here. Didn’t think it was Covid because of how mild it was and because I was really healthy and in the best condition I’ve ever been.
Fast forward a few weeks and I’m sitting in hospital getting a mri, blood tests, ecg and everything in between to try and figure out why i was constanly dizzy, couldn’t remember anything and couldn’t walk more than a few metres before falling over. I felt like I was actually dying.
This went on for over a year and the symptoms started to fade a bit. 3 years on I’m still dizzy to the point I can’t walk far, I have a constant headache, chest and breathing problems and I have to make a list for everything because I can’t remember the word chocolate or coffee or cheese when I’m asked what I want or i am ordering something. It’s embarrassing and frustrating when you can’t find the words when having a conversation. It’s ruined hobbies and interests because I can’t focus enough to enjoy them and it’s destroyed any confidence I had when talking to people because the words just aren’t there when I need them.
It’s so hard to explain to people what this feels like and how hard it is only a daily basis. It’s life destroying.
Got Covid end of March 2020 at work. Rang in sick, 1/4/20. Went back on the books 1/10/20 but left at home, as I couldn’t do more than get up go downstairs and return later. Had 25 symptoms. Called 999 day 5. Didn’t turn up. Rang the following night turned up and said I had anxiety.
Week 4 coughing blood. Called gp told to go to a and e. They wouldn’t let me in. End up in a tent in the car park. I’m sat on a chair mask safety specs and gloves. Doctor walks in No PPE stethoscope on my back. No aneurism. Told to go. Gp wasn’t happy, as no X-ray bolds extra. Ended up in hospital 3 weeks later. Saw ten gps over first 12 months all via FaceTime.
Couldn’t get a respiratory appointment. Called a private hospital and saw a NHS consultant in a week. Calls cost £200 per call. CT scans were £750 each. Cost in total £3k.
Emailed my MP Miriam Cates. Useless. Apparently, emails sent to the same email address don’t always arrive?
Long Covid clinic advised GP where to send me.
All pointless.
18 months to recover.
I will never clap, bang a pot or pan for the NHS.
Before everyone goes berserk, I don’t blame individuals but they were shit.
I retire in 4 weeks and go to 999 calls for a living and have done all my service doing so. I’ve gone to guns, knives, swords and gangs fighting. Always turned up.
I’m truly disgusted and disappointed by my treatment.
The only good thing was I survived, some didn’t.
Does anyone else struggle to tell if it’s brain fog from COVID or if they’re just getting dumber?
I’m 28, finally caught covid after 3 years of family working with it.
It’s wiped me right out. I’ve been breathless and really tired for weeks.
I had pneumonia previously and that was nothing in comparison.
I have MS and a whole lot of the symptoms sound like mine. I wouldn’t be surprised if people with long covid develop it. I have fatigue and brain fog pretty frequently and it sucks.
There is some spectacular ignorance on display in this comment section
Covid triggered my Graves Disease, my endocrinologist said that she’s seen loads of people in their 20s who’s onset of symptoms started the moment they got Covid – I think a lot of long Covid may have developed into thyroid issues / autoimmune diseases not yet picked up
Edit: grammar
All through this pandemic and the places I’ve been for people which are the elderly and disabled I’m yet to get covid once , it’s been through my household 4 times and I’m the one that looked after everyone as well. It really baffles me how some get it and the rare small amount aren’t that covid has absolutely no effect on like myself.
Not sure if it was covid but omega 3 supplements cured my brain fog.
I still mask up when I’m out as I have permanent lung damage from long covid, combined with chronic fatigue which never used to be an issue.
I caught covid three times due to others flouting rules without consideration for others back at its height.
I know we have to get back to a functional society sooner rather than later, but the folks who didn’t bother outright are the very reason i ended up like this so there’s honestly lingering contempt in me for anti vaxxers, anti maskers and the like.
I now have shortness of breath and who knows how long of getting exhausted to the point of needing sleep just from waking up, showering and moving between two floors of a house.
That’s on top of my pre-existing mental health issues.
Not saying everyone should still be forced to mask etc. Just saying I’ll never forgive asshats who were too selfish at the height of it to even contemplate consideration for others.
I had Covid. I went from being able to walk several miles without breaking a sweat to being unable to walk the 10 minutes to our shop without being exhausted and falling asleep on the sofa every night and constantly forgetting things. It sucks, hard and makes me feel like a failure.
I work in a covid vaccination centre. The amount of cretins coming in for the jab without a mask is just baffling me. And they’re arguing with me when I ask them to wear a damn mask, that they cannot breathe or whatever what bollocks for fucking 1minute!! That’s all what it takes to take a Covid jab. In the past month half of my colleagues had covid because of those morons. From January I am done with the job. I had covid twice anyway, and I am not willing to fuckup my lungs because of this kind of retrograde people.
Lets clap for NHS, while we’re infect’em with covid.
Welcome to the club. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia several years before covid 19 spread. It causes crippling widespread musculoskeletal pain and debilitating chronic fatigue. Despite my best efforts to get better and push through, my life is ruined. I’m 25.
I pity anyone who has to go through shit like this.
Just had covid and tested clear on Tuesday.
I can’t work for more than a couple of hours without falling asleep. But not being able to hold a coherent conversation is the bit that has really got to me.
Yeah, I should have stayed masked up.
Never much mentioned that Covid is more of a blood disease then respiratory and about 3 weeks ago a interesting discussion on one way it gets to the lungs is if people have any gum disease it makes its way down the juggler vein to the heart then feeds into the lungs.
Unfortunately, the ME/CFS community has faced this for decades.
Anyone here struggle with muscle pain and tiredness? I’ve just got over intense pain in my neck, shoulders and back for a year after covid. I’m 29 btw so I shouldn’t of been like that.
This is the sort of fatigue I’ve experienced when I’ve over-exerted myself during a Crohn’s flare. Not long covid, but it’s really horrible and I feel for anyone going through this. Drs and people don’t take you seriously when you try and explain that even emailing takes *effort* to focus. Let alone going out and shopping or seeing friends. I was bedridden for a week and the drs didn’t care.