Long Covid Comes into the Light
Here’s my experience with long covid:<p>- got infected in December 2021<p>- 10 days of fatigue and headaches, couldn’t think clearly<p>- got better but had trouble breathing the following three months and had to stop any intense physical activity<p>- during the whole year 2022, every time I got any slight immune system challenge (catch a cold; have a short night sleep), the breathing problems would come back and stay with me for 2-3 weeks<p>- in February 2023 it seemed to have went away. No breathing problems for 4 months, yeepee!<p>- 2nd week of February and out of nowhere, I started feeling tired, but had no other symptoms. So I spent the week taking it easy and just working a less and sleeping a lot<p>- a week later, I went to get groceries and could feel my heart pump heavily through my chest, almost fainted twice<p>- since then it got worse and now I can’t walk, take the stairs or even sit upright on a chair for more than a couple minutes, else I risk fainting (and my heart beats like crazy the whole time)<p>- spent the past 4 weeks working from bed. Can’t drive; can’t walk more than 1 min;  and can’t sit upright<p>- I feel fatigued almost all the time and have the same symptoms as when I had covid in 2021, symptoms I never had in my life before<p>- I don’t know if &#x2F; when it will improve, doctor didn’t find anything<p>I don’t know if it’s because of long covid, the vaccine or just bad luck but I’m positive I never had these kinds of symptoms before catching covid in 2021. And now 2 years later I live with a debilitating disease that makes me objectively disabled for most things. I’m 33 and otherwise healthy. This is not a hallucination.