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While trying to find information about my own post-COVID symptoms I stumbled upon a myriad of facebook groups. I quickly discovered that my, at the time, main
by nso 6y ago
While trying to find information about my own post-COVID symptoms I stumbled upon a myriad of facebook groups.
I quickly discovered that my, at the time, main problem of extreme insomnia seemed to be a very common one. I lingered in the groups, but it became apparent that it was a gathering of superstition and unscientifical ideas.
It reminded me of the same kind of groups for stuff for things like ME, MS and other things people tend to self diagnose.
2 months after first symptoms I am finally back to normal. The first month was dominated by debilitating fatigue, then debilitating insomnia. And I had COVID light.
- libertine 6y agoPlus I believe that a portion of long term symptoms are effects of high Stress/Anxiety, or even PTSD. These experiences are so unusual from the average person that a lot of people are experiencing it for the first time, and they see how it manifests into physical symptoms. For example: people are reporting hairloss, months after having experienced covid, while it's not directly related to covid, it's due to the fact that your body experienced extreme stress and as a consequence you alt your hair growth cycle, and you shed. Even those with mild symptoms, or no symptoms, the anxiety of knowing they could be at potential risk to die is enough for a lot of people to experience a lot stress and anxiety.
- latchkey 6y agoI have not had covid yet. With regards to fear, I am the opposite. Knowing what could be coming is more comforting. I find that reading stories about how people caught it, is good tips on how to avoid it. I take the inputs without emotion and it has been extremely helpful for my own stress levels.
- nso 6y agoI was relieved when I caught it. At least I didn't have to worry about catching it anymore. The devil you know...
- latchkey 6y agoAccording to the CDC [0]... "We currently don’t have enough information yet to say whether someone will definitely be immune and protected from reinfection if they have antibodies to the virus." [0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/antibody-tests.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/anti...
- nso 6y agoI get what you are saying. I want to argue that for me it was not the case. I'm no stranger to being sick. I had my first MS attack at 12, and at 38 I'd be a wreck if I'd let those things affect me significantly. When we (my wife and daughter demonstrated symptoms 2 days after me) got sick we might have been stressed out by it all, but it quickly faded. It was certainly gone a month later once the insomnia hit me. The fatigue I experienced I can confidently describe as just as bad as MS-fatigue would affect me in my initial decade of illness. The accompanying brain fog and extreme mental exhaustion (even if the body would still be able to perform the mind would not) is not something I've never experienced except for with MS and with COVID. Due to medication (Gilenya) and having moved to the tropics, my MS fatigue is near non-existant. The COVID fatigue was an unwelcome old friend that came to visit. But with my experience with it from earlier I know how to deal with it (Don't expect too much of yourself. Don't get upset when you can't do the things you want to do. Rest.)
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