Long covid

[dolf]

Anyone else dealing with this?

I hadn't thought about it much until my eldest brought it up yesterday, and we started comparing notes. Symptoms that I've never had before, but that were a daily occurrence since Corona. Neither of us made the connection until then.

She's been dealing with serious fatigue and digestive issues since April, which is making 10 hours on her feet and putting on a professional face incredibly difficult.
I've had less fatigue, but instead get sudden, brief headaches that feel like just one small patch of brain is exploding.
We both feel like our stomachs are raw, and are dealing with daily, intermittent bloating and unhappy guts.

More info on it here.

Has anyone else got similar experiences?

 

[thør]

Kaila has that.

 

[dolf]

Kaila has that.

Lots of people do, it seems...

It's mostly unknowns right now, but I heard one estimate of 1 in 10 going on to suffer long term symptoms.

 

[thør]

Lots of people do, it seems...

It's mostly unknowns right now, but I heard one estimate of 1 in 10 going on to suffer long term symptoms.

It's just not talked about much. Long haulers are just bad press for the herd immunity bunch.

 

[Jada59]

Well, I have asst. known medical problems that can cause pain and stomach problems. I don't normally have any headaches now. Prior to menopause I would sometimes get nasty migraines, but those stopped. Now I get headaches again. Brief ones.

I have felt "off" occasionally though. Like right now. Dizzy and spaced out. My sleeping has been horrible though. I feel sleepy most of the time but can't sleep well. Part of the problem is that some days my phones are blowing up, mostly with scammers. That wakes me up. I have had odd stomach things come out of nowhere. And the other night, I had no appetite whatever. Stomach didn't hurt. Just felt weird and like if I ate, I would throw up.

My strangest thing has been weakness. At the start of the pandemic, I was working out like mad. Also dancing for several hours a day. My muscles beefed up, I lost weight. I looked and felt good.

But then we had a heat wave. It didn't even cool off at night. I don't have AC and it was just too miserable to workout or dance. Then we got bombarded with smoke from various wildfires. By then, it was cooling off at night but it was too smoky to be outside.

Then I lost all desire to exercise. I was annoyed because the weight came back. It has since dropped off but I couldn't tell you why.

When I finally pushed myself to exercise, I could barely do a thing. For some reason, my left arm is totally weak now. Even a two pound weight causes pain. I had been using 10 pounds. My sense of balance is so bad now, I don't dare dance. I have leg cramps a lot. My labs came back fine so I'm not lacking in any nutrients. And I look horrible. Washed out, eyes are all back around.

And the mental stuff! Normally I'm in a good mood. But the other day, I was walking around saying, "Crab, crab, crab!' I feel crabby and out of sorts. Earlier, I was thinking how I can't relate to people any more. I think part of that is that where I live, Marxists and Socialists are taking over and nothing is making sense to me any more.

Everything that is happening seems wrong. The police have been defunded. They are quitting and going elsewhere because it's no longer safe for them. It's fine to loot, riot, throw Molotov cocktails. But run a small business or don't wear a mask and you can be fined. Crimes are fine too as long as they are misdemeanors. You need only to claim poverty or drug abuse. You can take what you want from any person, house, store. whatever. All fine. We are told not to visit, have visitors or celebrate holidays. And yet? People were putting up Christmas trees in Nov. When I asked them why,it said to make them happy. I was like... How can something as silly as that make you happy when our world is crumbling around us? Every day, things are worse than the day before.

I want to move away! But... I am also not the type to let people drive me away. I'm sooo conflicted!

 

[Saint_Ann]

Same symptoms as stress. Take a chill pill.

 

[dolf]

It's just not talked about much. Long haulers are just bad press for the herd immunity bunch.

We don't really have much of that here. It's more that it's an unknown, and understandably the resources are going into prevention and treating life threatening cases. But, worst case scenario, 1 in 10 suffering long term, ongoing health issues would be a huge problem!

Well, I have asst. known medical problems that can cause pain and stomach problems. I don't normally have any headaches now. Prior to menopause I would sometimes get nasty migraines, but those stopped. Now I get headaches again. Brief ones.

I have felt "off" occasionally though. Like right now. Dizzy and spaced out. My sleeping has been horrible though. I feel sleepy most of the time but can't sleep well. Part of the problem is that some days my phones are blowing up, mostly with scammers. That wakes me up. I have had odd stomach things come out of nowhere. And the other night, I had no appetite whatever. Stomach didn't hurt. Just felt weird and like if I ate, I would throw up.

My strangest thing has been weakness. At the start of the pandemic, I was working out like mad. Also dancing for several hours a day. My muscles beefed up, I lost weight. I looked and felt good.

But then we had a heat wave. It didn't even cool off at night. I don't have AC and it was just too miserable to workout or dance. Then we got bombarded with smoke from various wildfires. By then, it was cooling off at night but it was too smoky to be outside.

Then I lost all desire to exercise. I was annoyed because the weight came back. It has since dropped off but I couldn't tell you why.

When I finally pushed myself to exercise, I could barely do a thing. For some reason, my left arm is totally weak now. Even a two pound weight causes pain. I had been using 10 pounds. My sense of balance is so bad now, I don't dare dance. I have leg cramps a lot. My labs came back fine so I'm not lacking in any nutrients. And I look horrible. Washed out, eyes are all back around.

That sucks. All stuff that's been reported by others, too.

A doctor on the webinar I was listening to suggested getting advice and support from organisations that support ME/CFS, as that seemed to be the best match and helped with his own symptoms. Worth a try!

Same symptoms as stress. Take a chill pill.

My stress levels are at an all-time low, funnily enough.

 

[thør]

That sucks.

It all sucks.

 

[renard_ruse]

I still don't know a single person who's had this particular illness. If it wasn't in the mainstream media all the time I still wouldn't know it exists.

 

[RevoltingBlue2]

I'm selling

the Covid short.

 

[jaF0]

She's been dealing with serious fatigue and digestive issues since April, which is making 10 hours on her feet and putting on a professional face incredibly difficult.
I've had less fatigue, but instead get sudden, brief headaches that feel like just one small patch of brain is exploding.
We both feel like our stomachs are raw, and are dealing with daily, intermittent bloating and unhappy guts.

Has anyone else got similar experiences?

It's called life and aging. You think you got ills now? Wait out the next 20 or 30 years. You'll have trouble just standing up. Breathing will hurt. Your balance will be off to the point you don't trust stairs without a railing.

But I can see it's already begin. People will be blaming this bug for every damn hangnail or toothache they get from now on. 'My hair is turning gray!!! The Bug caused it.' 'My skin is wrinkling, that damn bug did it!!!'

 

[rockcasbah]

There’s always at least one vague malaise that only affects unhappy women.

That’s why shrinks invented the vibrator.

 

[Champakian]

There’s always at least one vague malaise that only affects unhappy women.

That’s why shrinks invented the vibrator.

lol



I survived Covid with no after effect. Hell, I even had a mild variant of the virus, I was sick, but not wishing to die sick.

 

[rockcasbah]

This new disorder will also become the #1 reason for a surge in long term disability sham claims.

 

[Champakian]

Oh. Spot on. I can see that happening.

 

[rockcasbah]

Karens will suffer disproportionately.

There will be studies. And female anger at the lack of total societal attention to their malaise.

The usual.

 

[Champakian]

Periods will be more irregular, longer, stronger and bloodier than ever before. There may be chainsaws...

 

[dolf]

Sometimes I wonder what life did to y'all to turn you into such bitter old farts, yipping at everyone, like elderly chihuahuas... I suspect it's when the impotence starts creeping in.

 

[Champakian]

I was right!

 

[rockcasbah]

Sometimes I wonder what life did to y'all to turn you into such bitter old farts, yipping at everyone, like elderly chihuahuas... I suspect it's when the impotence starts creeping in.

I saw the same bbc news item you did.

Everyone on camera in the item was female, 35-55, overweight.

And you brought it up.

 

[Champakian]

"Anyone else dealing with this?"



I answered your question. It was rather insipid and could have been addressed in half-a-dozen threads already devoted to the topic, but please, enjoy your umbrage; it might be all you have left in your life.

 

[dolf]

It's called life and aging. You think you got ills now? Wait out the next 20 or 30 years. You'll have trouble just standing up. Breathing will hurt. Your balance will be off to the point you don't trust stairs without a railing.

But I can see it's already begin. People will be blaming this bug for every damn hangnail or toothache they get from now on. 'My hair is turning gray!!! The Bug caused it.' 'My skin is wrinkling, that damn bug did it!!!'

She's in her 20s. And I've heard about children possibly having it.

Interesting, radio 4 was talking to the head of the new NHS group, and a long covid patient, talking about diagnosis. While all the usual tests came back clear, they were finding things in the tests they just threw in there as a "may as well try everything!" option.
They were finding organ damage throughout the body, embolism, necrosis, etc.

Obviously there's going to be a lot of psychological issues, and psychosomatic symptoms, after a traumatic illness and a global panic, but that absolutely cannot account for everything they're finding.

 

[rockcasbah]

She's in her 20s. And I've heard about children possibly having it.

Interesting, radio 4 was talking to the head of the new NHS group, and a long covid patient, talking about diagnosis. While all the usual tests came back clear, they were finding things in the tests they just threw in there as a "may as well try everything!" option.
They were finding organ damage throughout the body, embolism, necrosis, etc.

Obviously there's going to be a lot of psychological issues, and psychosomatic symptoms, after a traumatic illness and a global panic, but that absolutely cannot account for everything they're finding.

Last paragraph contains some facts; woot!

 

[Champakian]

Isn't that w00t?

 

[CornusKousa]

Sometimes I wonder what life did to y'all to turn you into such bitter old farts, yipping at everyone, like elderly chihuahuas... I suspect it's when the impotence starts creeping in.

Nothing in particular, we just didn't get to grow up as spoiled white girls living the privileged 1st world life.

It's the reality of life that creeps in, not impotence....but I can see why Karens would say such a thing.