“Long Covid? What the hell is that?”
Post-COVID-19 syndrome involves a variety of new, returning or ongoing symptoms that people experience more than four weeks after getting COVID-19. In some people, post-COVID-19 syndrome lasts months or years or causes disability.
Research suggests that between one month and one year after having COVID-19, 1 in 5 people ages 18 to 64 has at least one medical condition that might be due to COVID-19. Among people age 65 and older, 1 in 4 has at least one medical condition that might be due to COVID-19.
And a disability can have different problems. A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities (activity limitation) and interact with the world around them (participation restrictions).
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Okay, thank you. I had never heard of that before. I never got Covid.
right on the money.
I am not vaxd. I caught COVID in jan 2022.
I was out of it for about 14 days.
I remember watching the TV on top of my dresser while in bed.
I don’t have a tv on top of my dresser.
My wife thought she was going to lose me.
I was mean to her and talking out of my head.
My wife and kids threw out my ivermectin.
I guess i threatened them not to take me to the hospital.
When I came out of it, I had lost 30 lbs.
I couldn’t stand up to take a shower.
I survived on electrolytes until i got my strength back.
I have a spit-load of co-morbidities that got triggered.
The fall-out was terrible.
I felt like my chest was going to be ripped apart sideways.
I was gassed walking 10-15 feet.
My oxygen dipped into the 80s.
My pulse went to mid-high 90s. I have bradycardia and my pulse was around 55-60 most of my life.
Both legs swelled like i had elephantitis.
My mind was semi-gone. My mind was foggy. I couldn’t remember simple words. .
I go to the V.A. for health care.
They scanned be for blood clots.
They scanned me for heart disease.
They put an oxygen meter on my finger. Reading was in the mid -90s. They had a nurse walk me around the office and after a few steps the reading was in the hundreds and i was gassed - breathing heavy.
I was pretty much a hot mess.
Over time, with only a prescribed rescue inhaler:
my oxygen came back,
my pulse is back down lower 68-73 - not as low as it was.
I’m no longer out of breath walking a distance.
The last vestige of it is, my mind is still a tad foggy...I still reach for words i should know.
I took a covid anti-bodies test and i do have COVID antibodies.
I am going to take the test again to see if I still have the anti-bodies.
Did i have long COVID ? I think so. I don’t wish this on anybody.
FreeRegards