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It's beginning to look like having COVID-19 ages people faster than usual.[1] It’s a huge claim.

mikewarot 4y ago
I feel like I lost a decade of my lifespan because of Long Covid. I got it right at the start, March, 2020 an otherwise mild case. Then I noticed the fatigue, and exhaustion on what should have been effortless things. Almost 3 years later, Even just speaking to someone for more than a few minutes gets me winded. I saw a new doctor today, and he gives me hope that I might get my life back. I used to work on my feet 8 hours/day making gears, and gear like objects.
- garganzol 4y ago
  This may indicate an onset of a postcovid syndrome. At the beginning, it is primarily characterized by a chronic fatigue and loosing the ability to work the full shift. Take a look [1]. [1] https://www.hormonesmatter.com/recovering-from-post-covid-mitochondrial-dysfunction/ https://www.hormonesmatter.com/recovering-from-post-covid-mi...
  - ldldlsosj 4y ago
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- rafale 4y ago
  Try to stay optimistic, eat healthy and exercise. With some luck, it might pass. Many people have reported recovering after a couple of months but I don't see why it couldn't take longer.
- valleyer 4y ago
  I don't mean to minimize your suffering, and I believe you. But: how do you separate out the effects of the viral infection from the effects of the societal upheaval and stress of the last three years? (If you somehow weren't exposed to the upheaval, then please forgive my assumption.)
  - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
    No OP but similar situation. It's easy to make the difference: I've been in terribly stressfull situations before. I went to live in Mali, started business, got Malaria, lost everything to the war and had to start all over, going back to my country. It's not the same. Covid got me bad. But strangely, only after the third dose of vaccine. Right after it in fact, and ever since. But it's possible we will learn we are coupounding effects on a lot of fronts: stress from the situation, covid itself, unexpected side effects from the vaccine, and maybe something else. Hard to tell. But yeah, this is not regular run of off the mill, stress response.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    For myself: because I went through a couple of real world crises without batting an eye and the moment of onset coincides perfectly with the moment of onset of COVID-19. As for the upheaval: some experienced it as such, for me it actually reduced stress considerably because I didn't have to travel for work anymore which normally would take about 25% of my time and was always super stressful, it also caused a lot of follow on stress because that 25% needed to be made up for somehow.
  - mikewarot 4y ago
    I'm no longer spending 2+ hours in traffic on 2 of the most busy expressways in the nation each day. We've had (until recently) enough funds to ignore the losses from not working. My stress level really didn't rise, but my ability to move and do things fell off a cliff.
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  As someone in a similar (alrhough less acute) situation, what did the doctor said that gave you hope?
  - mikewarot 4y ago
    He actually knew about and discussed post-covid and long covid implications.
- leonidasv 4y ago
  Do you have any other ageing symptoms not related to the cardio-respiratory system? The linked paper focuses on telomeres and genetic markers for ageing. Since Covid directly impacts the lungs, I wonder if the symptoms you described are related to lung damage or to another mechanism such as the one the paper proposed. Hope you get well!
Animats 4y ago
It is. They see damage, and not enough time has elapsed to see if it heals. Assuming that the damage will heal is a huge claim, too.

I feel like I lost a decade of my lifespan because of Long Covid. I got it right at the start, March, 2020 an otherwise mild case. Then I noticed the fatigue, and exhaustion on what should have been effortless things. Almost 3 years later, Even just speaking to someone for more than a few minutes gets me winded. I saw a new doctor today, and he gives me hope that I might get my life back. I used to work on my feet 8 hours/day making gears, and gear like objects.

garganzol 4y ago
This may indicate an onset of a postcovid syndrome. At the beginning, it is primarily characterized by a chronic fatigue and loosing the ability to work the full shift. Take a look [1]. [1] https://www.hormonesmatter.com/recovering-from-post-covid-mitochondrial-dysfunction/ https://www.hormonesmatter.com/recovering-from-post-covid-mi...
- ldldlsosj 4y ago
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rafale 4y ago
Try to stay optimistic, eat healthy and exercise. With some luck, it might pass. Many people have reported recovering after a couple of months but I don't see why it couldn't take longer.
valleyer 4y ago
I don't mean to minimize your suffering, and I believe you. But: how do you separate out the effects of the viral infection from the effects of the societal upheaval and stress of the last three years? (If you somehow weren't exposed to the upheaval, then please forgive my assumption.)
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  No OP but similar situation. It's easy to make the difference: I've been in terribly stressfull situations before. I went to live in Mali, started business, got Malaria, lost everything to the war and had to start all over, going back to my country. It's not the same. Covid got me bad. But strangely, only after the third dose of vaccine. Right after it in fact, and ever since. But it's possible we will learn we are coupounding effects on a lot of fronts: stress from the situation, covid itself, unexpected side effects from the vaccine, and maybe something else. Hard to tell. But yeah, this is not regular run of off the mill, stress response.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  For myself: because I went through a couple of real world crises without batting an eye and the moment of onset coincides perfectly with the moment of onset of COVID-19. As for the upheaval: some experienced it as such, for me it actually reduced stress considerably because I didn't have to travel for work anymore which normally would take about 25% of my time and was always super stressful, it also caused a lot of follow on stress because that 25% needed to be made up for somehow.
- mikewarot 4y ago
  I'm no longer spending 2+ hours in traffic on 2 of the most busy expressways in the nation each day. We've had (until recently) enough funds to ignore the losses from not working. My stress level really didn't rise, but my ability to move and do things fell off a cliff.
BiteCode_dev 4y ago
As someone in a similar (alrhough less acute) situation, what did the doctor said that gave you hope?
- mikewarot 4y ago
  He actually knew about and discussed post-covid and long covid implications.
leonidasv 4y ago
Do you have any other ageing symptoms not related to the cardio-respiratory system? The linked paper focuses on telomeres and genetic markers for ageing. Since Covid directly impacts the lungs, I wonder if the symptoms you described are related to lung damage or to another mechanism such as the one the paper proposed. Hope you get well!

Animats 4y ago

It is. They see damage, and not enough time has elapsed to see if it heals. Assuming that the damage will heal is a huge claim, too.