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This may be unpopular to say, but anxiety could have caused some or all of these symptoms.

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ckosidows 6y ago
Sounded like anxiety to me. I experience a number of those things on and off again and as far as I can tell they've always been because of anxiety. They can feel serious but it's often just your mind telling you something is wrong when it's not. Not a doctor. Could be wrong. Just sound like anxiety symptoms from my experience.
- kayodelycaon 6y ago
  I have anxiety and asthma that are well-controlled and I’ve never been afraid or worried about COVID-19. I got sick last March for four months with severe symptoms that were described above. I was having many anxiety and asthma attacks with no obvious cause. I still haven’t gotten fully back on my feet.
- Twounwhe 6y ago
  (I'm not the person you were replying to.). I've had similar symptoms, and more, for the past 8 months. Heart palpitations, feeling of heaviness in the chest, strange exhaustion... I admit this does sound like anxiety. However, after suffering from anxiety for two decades, I've learned what my anxiety feels like. This is different. It's like comparing grits and runny oatmeal--I can understand why many descriptions are insufficient to distinguish between them, and even how one might be able to masquerade as the other, but having had both, it's clear they are not the same.
  - ckosidows 6y ago
    Is this after you had Covid? I've never been diagnosed with anxiety (though I have had pretty significant panic attacks around family) nor have I had Covid. I only started feeling these particular things since Covid became a world-wide event. Maybe it's a particular kind of anxiety caused by isolation? So maybe I'm wrong and I haven't been experiencing anxiety when I have these symptoms. I agree it's a bit different than having a panic attack in my experience.
oger 6y ago
You don't die from anxiety.
- Wohlf 6y ago
  You don't die from obesity either, you die from the effects it has on the body.
- guscost 6y ago
  Anxiety is one of the worst possible influences on cardiovascular health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/
whimsicalism 6y ago
There is literature comparing many long covid cases with chronic fatigue syndrome. The medical establishment doesn't go out and say it outright, but I think the implication is that some of these symptoms may be anxiety driven.

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Sounded like anxiety to me. I experience a number of those things on and off again and as far as I can tell they've always been because of anxiety. They can feel serious but it's often just your mind telling you something is wrong when it's not. Not a doctor. Could be wrong. Just sound like anxiety symptoms from my experience.

kayodelycaon 6y ago
I have anxiety and asthma that are well-controlled and I’ve never been afraid or worried about COVID-19. I got sick last March for four months with severe symptoms that were described above. I was having many anxiety and asthma attacks with no obvious cause. I still haven’t gotten fully back on my feet.
Twounwhe 6y ago
(I'm not the person you were replying to.). I've had similar symptoms, and more, for the past 8 months. Heart palpitations, feeling of heaviness in the chest, strange exhaustion... I admit this does sound like anxiety. However, after suffering from anxiety for two decades, I've learned what my anxiety feels like. This is different. It's like comparing grits and runny oatmeal--I can understand why many descriptions are insufficient to distinguish between them, and even how one might be able to masquerade as the other, but having had both, it's clear they are not the same.
- ckosidows 6y ago
  Is this after you had Covid? I've never been diagnosed with anxiety (though I have had pretty significant panic attacks around family) nor have I had Covid. I only started feeling these particular things since Covid became a world-wide event. Maybe it's a particular kind of anxiety caused by isolation? So maybe I'm wrong and I haven't been experiencing anxiety when I have these symptoms. I agree it's a bit different than having a panic attack in my experience.

oger 6y ago

You don't die from anxiety.

Wohlf 6y ago
You don't die from obesity either, you die from the effects it has on the body.
guscost 6y ago
Anxiety is one of the worst possible influences on cardiovascular health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/

whimsicalism 6y ago

There is literature comparing many long covid cases with chronic fatigue syndrome. The medical establishment doesn't go out and say it outright, but I think the implication is that some of these symptoms may be anxiety driven.