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I am on day 10 of recovery from pretty severe COVID and I would have been a long covid skeptic except I just woke up one day and felt like a completely differen

I am on day 10 of recovery from pretty severe COVID and I would have been a long covid skeptic except I just woke up one day and felt like a completely different person. Its like I have all the memories and abilities of the person I was but all emotional motivation is just gone and I struggle to remember why I liked to do anything I used to do. Everything also feels kind of soft and hazy in a way that is difficult to describe. This is not at all subtle or anything stress or attention related as some have suggested. It is utterly unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.

ok_dad 3y ago
That’s a good description for how I’ve felt since I got Covid a few months ago. I have to force myself to do anything, even sleeping is hard. I can’t focus on anything and life feels unreal somehow.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Yes, me as well. It's been 3 months since I started testing negative. My overall state is certainly better than three months ago, but this stuff persists. Based on what I've heard from people IRL as well as here, I'm not going to actually start worrying for another 3 months.
altairTF 3y ago
Thats actually a very scary side effect of the virus, did you get vaccinated or not? Naive curiosity, not implying anything
- porknubbins 3y ago
  I had gotten the original 2 part vaccine, though not any of the many boosters so its possible that having one of those would have given me a lot more resistance and a smoother recovery.
  - t0bia_s 3y ago
    Or maybe it helps to give you those symptoms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436
fragmede 3y ago
Sorry to had to experience it first hand to become a believer. it's unbelievably horrible. What would you say to your former skeptic self who might have bought the mass histeria or other "long covid isn't real" explanations in order to convince them long covid is actually real.
- porknubbins 3y ago
  I don’t know I wasn’t exactly going around shouting down long covid sufferers saying it was fake or anything. I just would have questioned the health of the sufferers beforehand. But I was totally healthy so its kind of eye opening to go from normal to feeling so strange overnight.

ok_dad 3y ago

That’s a good description for how I’ve felt since I got Covid a few months ago. I have to force myself to do anything, even sleeping is hard. I can’t focus on anything and life feels unreal somehow.

JohnFen 3y ago
Yes, me as well. It's been 3 months since I started testing negative. My overall state is certainly better than three months ago, but this stuff persists. Based on what I've heard from people IRL as well as here, I'm not going to actually start worrying for another 3 months.

altairTF 3y ago

Thats actually a very scary side effect of the virus, did you get vaccinated or not? Naive curiosity, not implying anything

porknubbins 3y ago
I had gotten the original 2 part vaccine, though not any of the many boosters so its possible that having one of those would have given me a lot more resistance and a smoother recovery.
- t0bia_s 3y ago
  Or maybe it helps to give you those symptoms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436

fragmede 3y ago

Sorry to had to experience it first hand to become a believer. it's unbelievably horrible. What would you say to your former skeptic self who might have bought the mass histeria or other "long covid isn't real" explanations in order to convince them long covid is actually real.

porknubbins 3y ago
I don’t know I wasn’t exactly going around shouting down long covid sufferers saying it was fake or anything. I just would have questioned the health of the sufferers beforehand. But I was totally healthy so its kind of eye opening to go from normal to feeling so strange overnight.