Has anyone else had experience with long-term COVID?
I am a cancer survivor of 2 years, triple vaxxed and cautious, without being crazy, about exposure to COVID. We recently bought a 'new to us' house and are dealing with contractors and appliance dealers and all that garbage. My house is fairly organized but we are still 10 weeks out from having a workable patio door and the range we waited 2 months for finally came last week broken, so 4 more weeks before that's fixed.
In the midst of the daily mess of painters, carpenters, etc., DH brought a particularly nasty strain of COVID home from SF.
He got sick on Mother's Day, I got sick the next day. We tested immediately and were both sick enough we simply went to bed. My contractor took over, literally. He was so sweet and even offered to bring us drinks or soup or whatever. We could not swallow, so it was ice water and throat lozenges.
DH did a monoclonal antibody infusion on Friday. My doc wanted me to check into the hospital for the weekend but I refused. I did a round of antivirals and 2 rounds of antibiotics.
Sick in bed for literally for 14 days. I really would have preferred death!
DH got better long before I did, so he was able to do some things. I was just sweating it out in the spare room and keeping away from everyone.
It has been 5-1/2 weeks and I am STILL dragging. I have to nap every day and I have no desire to do ANYTHING. Yesterday I hit the wall and went to bed and slept for 24 hrs. DH was really concerned but I told him I just needed to sleep. I do feel better today, but tomorrow could be awful again.
Has anyone else had this experience? I was on top of the vaccinations, I've been masking up and stay away from known sickies and my grands have all rolled through several rounds of this. If I thought this was how I was going to feel for so long, IDK. It's really depressing me.
DH wants me to make decisions about the house and I honestly do not care. This isn't like me at all. I'm reaching out to my oncologist today to see if he wants me to have another booster, although I can't imagine a booster could be better than having had the virus.
My mom was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's but my YB won't let me see her. I totally respect that.
Anybody else have this long term covid? I have never been this sick for this long!
I'm putting this under depression because I am SO depressed at not being able to shake this--and so much needs to be done!
Flu is being a follow-up problem for a lot of people here. Some people say it’s worse.
One of my cousins got covid right around last Christmas. She's in her early 50s, eats right and is in terrific shape- she's a runner and frequently completes marathons. Then she got covid and was affected with long covid. She knew something was drastically wrong when she could barely walk across the room without getting out of breath. It primarily has affected her lungs. She fosters dogs too and was worried that she wouldn't be able to do that for a long time, but is getting back to it- slowly but surely, she's re- gaining her stamina. Her doc had her on oxygen for a good while and she's had to do physical therapy, among some other things that were ordered (cannot remember what at the moment). I'd say it took her several months to start feeling a little better. It hits everyone differently, that's for sure.
You will be living with this as long as it stays. Get exercise as well as you can, keep nutrition up as well as you can. Unfortunately have another friend in Austin TX who is on long covid about a year, and just feeling full strength now. What a terrible time for this to hit you.
I certainly recommend masks to everyone. While you may get it, if you are vacced this one won't kill you. Covid is still very much with us. I think now that people are free to make their own decisions it is a lot less in the news, but it is still here, and appears to be great at adaptation.
Sorry you are suffering so much with this, and wish you healing.
We are all vaxxed and boosted; we all wore masks in crowded indoor situations, etc. Still got it. I honestly don't know where or how.
My husband and I didn't have very bad symptoms at all - I would say I was no worse than a bad cold/very mild bronchitis. My son had a painful sore throat, but he was the only one of us who had that.
But, yes, the fatigue since "getting better" is really a pain in the you-know-what. I'm ready to go to bed at 8:00. And I have no "drive" to do much of anything. I did mow the grass the other day (my husband is in a walking boot after injuring his foot, and will be for another 2 weeks at least) and was able to get it done, but I was exhausted after.
I'm hoping that a lot of this fatigue is because I'm out of my exercise routine - before Covid, I was doing aquacise classes at the gym 5 days a week - so I'm planning on going to one tonight, with the hopes it will help with the fatigue - sort of going with the scientific rule "a body in motion tends to stay in motion while a body of rest tends to stay at rest". I also still have a slight cough and some residual phlegm that I really can't wait to get rid of!
Since my quarantine has been over, I have spoken to other people who have had Covid recently (recently enough that I assume they had the same strain of Covid as I did) and they have voiced similar complaints (including the fatigue), so I have the feeling it's not "just me". My husband's podiatrist was telling us on Monday he and his wife had Covid about a month before we did, and they're just starting to feel "normal" again, so hopefully you'll be on the mend soon. I sure hope your doctor gets back to you, though, to give you some reassurances.
There is no guarantee that you will not get COVID if you get the shots and recommended boosters, just that you may not get it as bad. We are due our second booster but too close to a cruise we are going on in less than 2 weeks so have opted to wait till we get back. So far, our shots and booster have been excepted.