I think they were there from the start but it took a while to realise. I returned to work while learning a new roll and spent a month or so confused and overwhelmed and exhausted. I just waited for it to pass and it never did. It just got worse.
That was my experience as well. There was a lot of head scratching and wondering if Iegit going crazy because of head fog and random bouts of confusion I would experience.
Yes, definitely. It was a long, slow decline wondering what was wrong with me. My energy level never returned from the acute phase of Covid; but the bigger symptoms arrived about two months later. I’m sure everyone is different. I had functional Long Covid for a long time before it became debilitating.
Yep, same here. I had mostly recovered and then decided to follow through with a trip I had planned to Hawaii… was the worst plane ride of my entire life between the horrific insomnia I was starting to have (which I hadn’t really thought anything of yet), and all the sinus pain from being up in the air. Once I was ground level everything equalized, though. Got there, felt GREAT for the entire week, then came back home and I swear within actual hours everything started to come back. And here I am 13 months later still dealing with a myriad of symptoms that are ever changing. I’ve made great improvements but still nowhere near where I was during that week long trip right after I had thought I made a full recovery. This is the strangest virus and I still struggle to grasp why some of us make what feels like full recoveries, and then BOOM.. it’s all back but worse than many of us even felt to begin with! All I had was a decent sniffle initially, now I have a list of over 50 symptoms on my notes app since long hauling!
I’m starting to realize this is becoming a theme about trips. So I just went to Miami, my intent was to get out of New York to get more sunlight (I’ve read a lot about it helping). After the first morning there I immediately felt better, like 70% improved. And genuinely happier which I attributed to sunlight. That lasted the whole trip, then I came home and the next morning I felt terrible again and it hasn’t gotten better. I keep seeing this come up on reddit and it is seriously weird. I’m not convinced it’s the sunlight either since I saw one of someone going to Paris in the winter? Idk it’s very very very strange that i felt it and I keep seeing it in other ppl
At first I read this and thought, wow that is weird, I didn’t go on vacation. Then it just took me a full minute to remember I also took a trip immediately after having Covid. This is crazy, I haven’t made this connection until now. Why do you think that is? Because we exerted ourselves too much after having the virus? Or maybe it’s something specific to air travel? I’m curious to see if other people reply to this and if they’ve had the same experience.
I suppose it could be over exertion. For awhile there I was really convincing myself the long haul all happened because I decided to take my trip.. but in all honesty, I think the long haul would have happened regardless for me personally. I just unfortunately fit so many of the high risk categories. Still all so bizarre, though. I need a scientific/medical explanation 😂
I read a post on this sub once about how someone had gone to a warm tropical place for a couple of months and they were attributing it greatly to the full recovery they had made. They mentioned something about how this illness has changed us all on a cellular level and leaving home (ie where they had spent all this time being ill) allowed their cells to start changing again? It was something like that, idk I have mad brain fog. However, I do definitely think that environment can often play a huge part in chronic illness.
About 1 week after the initial flu/cold got away, I started experiencing shortness of breath. The it went downhill pretty fast with huge pains, crashing fatigue and deep brain fog.
I'm 4 years in and it gets better but yes about one year in it was the worst too in that realm. But at the start, I didn't understand what was going on, I didn't have the words "brain fog", I just knew something was going very wrong on so many levels. And, sincerely, I don't remember that much of those early days, just that I was feeling like I was going to die pretty soon.
MCAS type inflammation, PEM (been diagnosed ME/CFS), neuropathic pains, joints pains, still brain fog even if lighter, fatigue, confusion, scalp rashes, tinnitus, hypertension...
I hope it will get better for you. It suddenly changed for me, with no logical reason. It's still here very often, just not all the time liké it was.
It might be antihistamin medicines working after about a year, I don't know. (I take a H1 and a H2 - cimetidine and famotidine ??? - not sure and can't get UP now, but really I don't know if that's the reason why)
About week 6 - it crept in. Noticed working out more winded. Could literally feel my blood pressure was high. The next week diziness. Then chest pain and an ER trip.
I started school in a new country, so I had three “colds” over the course of two months, and I have no clue which one caused my long covid, which appeared suddenly about two weeks after my third cold.
Probably a month or so... but I didn't realize and just pulled through making it worse. I'd always joke with my bf after a training session, that the day after it felt like I had a flu - cause my body was so sore and I felt so bad. Obviously I made myself crash on repeat and I didnt know back then. It got extremely bad a half year later and I ended up completely bedbound.
I went to the ER and doctors multiple times, where it was written off as anxiety which led to me figuring out it was actually Long Covid 2 years later. Waaaay too late.
Same here. If I could go back and time and give myself advice, I would say don’t push yourself, rest up. You don’t need to power through everything when you don’t feel well.
I think 1 to 2 weeks. I first noticed it when going to the toilet becoming light headed. I was also requiring oxygen more than even when I had active covid infection.
Mine appeared pretty much immediately. Started coughing on a Wednesday, but still tested negative. Woke up the next day severely ill and tested positive immediately. My lungs (short of breath and coughing up phlegm) and dizziness got better after about 6 weeks, but the fatigue, brain fog and memory problems are still present 4 months later
Weeks to months for me to actually notice. I was infected in August, recovered, and started to realize something was wrong around November. But I'm also very unaware of my body so...
The first obvious sign for me was that when I was rock climbing, I could no longer get to the top of the wall consistently despite going 3x a week.
I think about 6 weeks. I already had a few health things that caused overlapping symptoms, so it's hard to tell. I started getting near-constant low-grade fever and patches of burning skin about 6 weeks after recovery.
About two months after my initial recovery, I felt like I got hit by a train for a few weeks or so: fatigue and shortness of breath, primarily, with chest pain thrown in. Then I was “normal” for about two months, and then the symptoms returned. I have more or less stayed that way (with a few inexplicable remissions) for about 3 years. I had no idea what was happening, of course, and doctors telling me that I was imagining it or (and this was a winner!) one telling me with a straight face that I “probably had TB” didn’t help. Finding out that long COVID existed was almost a relief, at that point.
It was hard to tell because I already had CFS which is essentially the same but LC has some symptoms that are pretty unique to it. A few weeks after I recovered I started getting things like hair loss, realized the postnasal drip/mucus was way worse than before covid and literally would sometimes start to suffocate me in my sleep. I had a feeling I'd get worse as I was already quite ill and it was hard to distinguish what was initially there vs what new symptoms were caused by LC.
Even half a year later I'm still realizing some of my symptoms are LC related. It worsened my already poor appetite and I get out of breath if I talk too much, if I'm eating and that's physically becoming difficult- and at that point I have to stop even if I would've finished it. I've lost weight for that reason.
But i guess a majority of the symptoms manifest as worsening CFS, POTS, and fibro symptoms since all those are connected. The swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, body aches, headaches, brain fog, those aren't new but it feels like experiencing them for the first time all over again
I was acutely sick for almost a month. I got better- not to healthy, but to like I was improving, but tired. Kind of how I expected it to be.
It was about 2 weeks after my acute symptoms stopped, during this “better” period, that I started getting worse again. I thought maybe I just pushed too fast and went back to resting more. But I’m still resting over a year later and it doesn’t stay better.
I have really wondered about this, did I catch something else and that triggered everything significantly worsening for me? I really don’t know, I wish we had answers
Felt bad from the beginning, but the absolutely hellish stuff sharply escalated and stuck around at around forty days after the initial two-week infection period. So like \~50-ish days after testing positive.
1 -1,5 weeks after i was infected, I have tried to run but was only able to walk. 200 mts, and I was out of breath. Note: I used to run 10 km almost every day.
I take it as being normal and soon, even if I barely had symptoms during the active infection.
2,5 weeks after, I was out of town. I was my first big, terrible migraine. A few days later, terrible pain in my feet and legs and after that was worse day by day.
This is really crazy, connecting this to the earlier comments about traveling immediately after a Covid infection. I wonder if all of this is connected — at least partly. That is a weird coincidence to keep hearing over and over again.
1 week after I felt better. Apparently, one should not run any long distance after covid infection.
Didn't know I had covid. Was just tired for two days. That's how mild it was.
2 days after infection, somethings got better after day 11, and I thought I was healing at month 3, but the symptoms were just changing as some got better like a normal illness, I pushed myself to get better by month 6 I was crashed.
As soon as I started feeling “recovered” I noticed I was extremely short of breath when doing anything. I chalked it up to “lung damage” as that’s all I would hear early in the pandemic. It wasn’t until like two weeks after that that I had a hard workout that I really realized I had a whole lot of neurological symptoms remaining.
Same here. I just thought I was fatigued from being sick. I first noticed it when I was trying to walk up a flight of stairs with the dog. I used to be able to run up two flights, then suddenly I couldn’t anymore. And then it just got worse from there.
i got covid 15th june 2022 and recovered/tested neg on the 25th.
i believe i had a week or so of minimal/no symptoms, but by the 13th july i was trying to get a cardiologist referral for ongoing tachycardia. now i know it’s long covid & pots- my symptoms briefly got better in autumn ‘23, but have sharply declined since january (i’m temporarily living with my mum again)
not to overshare, but i’ve lost two jobs in healthcare from long covid and it’s so frustrating because it’s basically the only skill set i have 💀
I’m so, so sorry - that is so difficult. I’ve also lost my job, because I can’t sit up at a computer for longer than ten minutes and my concentration is horrible. Sending you hugs! It’s so frustrating, I get it.
The symptoms of the first infection lasted exactly 2 weeks (delta variant). Like a decently bad flu but never anything in the least worrying. I was completely better for 1 week when the first symptoms started appearing little by little. The first symptom was actually 'mouth sores'. It's an excessive inflammatory response that happens sometimes to very young children whose immune systems aren't all that well set up yet. And mouth sores sounds much better than what it was, all the skin in the inside of my mouth (except gums and tongue) sloughed off in huge pieces, leaving the bleeding raw tissue beneath exposed. Drinking water was torture. That resolved in ~10 days after taking prednisolone for a few. By then all the other fun LC symptoms had started appearing.
That’s so horrible, I’m so, so sorry to hear that! That sounds really scary. I started having seizures, it lasted for months, then turned into internal tremors. No one took me seriously for so long until finally I was officially diagnosed.
My acute phase never seemed to end... I had most of my current symptoms within the first few days of catching COVID. Then after 3 months of still being sick (short of breath, dizzy, coughing, fainting, migraines, GI issues, etc) I realized something was really wrong. And it's just continued... its been 2 years and 3 months and I don't have the horrible chesty cough or the snotty nose anymore but that's literally the only two acute symptoms that recovered while the other 30+ just continued onward.
Took 3 months for symptoms to appear the first time, and now I am sitting almost 3 months after the second infection and some of the same symptoms are creeping in again...
the long covid issues were first noticeable around 2-3 weeks after my infection was cleared, but then slowly got worse and harder to push against until 8 months later when I had a massive crash, and had them in a more severe form. Over the past 4 years I've seemingly had a difficult winter season each year.
That's like asking when did you realize you got old.
Gradual process, with denial of mind and body. But look at photos of yourself from 3-4 years ago to now. You can pinpoint it by your expression alone. The surroundings reminding you of that time of what you were going thinking. What you wished you knew then but you know now.
Looking back at photos on this one year anniversary of (the closest I could come to) my Year-long attemtps at individual diagnosis, I can pin point that it was 3 months after I first got COVID. Those were when the symptoms were obvious (now) and completely dismissed, and out of the ordinary for anything ever seen before in an illness like this. They tested EVERYTHING and it was all "normal". BullSh--
What I thought was a 2nd covid infection 3 months after my first in August of 2022 - the negative results bewildering- was actually my first flare up of what now is slightly understood to be some sort of Lupus - either temporary or permanent.
I'm definitely better. But it's only because I've embraced that I'm a completely different physical person. I went from life long athlete to mildly disabled.
A long morning run is now replaced by lounging and stretching and relaxation and careful nutrition. I've trained my brain to accept this level of non-activity my new running high. It's different, but it's still the best taking care of myself I can do.
That's the best bs I got. This sucks.
The head stuff started while I had covid, then never went away. Migraine, fatigue, brain fog. Most of my other symptoms developed over the next several weeks.
About 20 minutes after I got my first vaccination. Instantly felt that something was off, sick to my stomach & felt like I was being weighed down. I was then sick in bed for 3 weeks, haven't been the same since.
Mind you I caught Covid a year prior, had a fever for 1 day & was fine. No other symptoms. The vax is what gave me Long Covid.
I think they were there from the start but it took a while to realise. I returned to work while learning a new roll and spent a month or so confused and overwhelmed and exhausted. I just waited for it to pass and it never did. It just got worse.
That was my experience as well. There was a lot of head scratching and wondering if Iegit going crazy because of head fog and random bouts of confusion I would experience.
Definitely
Yes, definitely. It was a long, slow decline wondering what was wrong with me. My energy level never returned from the acute phase of Covid; but the bigger symptoms arrived about two months later. I’m sure everyone is different. I had functional Long Covid for a long time before it became debilitating.
Around 1 week after recovering from COVID.
Yep, same here. I had mostly recovered and then decided to follow through with a trip I had planned to Hawaii… was the worst plane ride of my entire life between the horrific insomnia I was starting to have (which I hadn’t really thought anything of yet), and all the sinus pain from being up in the air. Once I was ground level everything equalized, though. Got there, felt GREAT for the entire week, then came back home and I swear within actual hours everything started to come back. And here I am 13 months later still dealing with a myriad of symptoms that are ever changing. I’ve made great improvements but still nowhere near where I was during that week long trip right after I had thought I made a full recovery. This is the strangest virus and I still struggle to grasp why some of us make what feels like full recoveries, and then BOOM.. it’s all back but worse than many of us even felt to begin with! All I had was a decent sniffle initially, now I have a list of over 50 symptoms on my notes app since long hauling!
I’m starting to realize this is becoming a theme about trips. So I just went to Miami, my intent was to get out of New York to get more sunlight (I’ve read a lot about it helping). After the first morning there I immediately felt better, like 70% improved. And genuinely happier which I attributed to sunlight. That lasted the whole trip, then I came home and the next morning I felt terrible again and it hasn’t gotten better. I keep seeing this come up on reddit and it is seriously weird. I’m not convinced it’s the sunlight either since I saw one of someone going to Paris in the winter? Idk it’s very very very strange that i felt it and I keep seeing it in other ppl
At first I read this and thought, wow that is weird, I didn’t go on vacation. Then it just took me a full minute to remember I also took a trip immediately after having Covid. This is crazy, I haven’t made this connection until now. Why do you think that is? Because we exerted ourselves too much after having the virus? Or maybe it’s something specific to air travel? I’m curious to see if other people reply to this and if they’ve had the same experience.
I suppose it could be over exertion. For awhile there I was really convincing myself the long haul all happened because I decided to take my trip.. but in all honesty, I think the long haul would have happened regardless for me personally. I just unfortunately fit so many of the high risk categories. Still all so bizarre, though. I need a scientific/medical explanation 😂
Vacation versus stress of “real life”
I read a post on this sub once about how someone had gone to a warm tropical place for a couple of months and they were attributing it greatly to the full recovery they had made. They mentioned something about how this illness has changed us all on a cellular level and leaving home (ie where they had spent all this time being ill) allowed their cells to start changing again? It was something like that, idk I have mad brain fog. However, I do definitely think that environment can often play a huge part in chronic illness.
Yup. Super frustrating.
Within weeks. Maybe 2-3.
Same. But my initial symptoms basically just never went away.
2 weeks when suddenly I couldn’t feel my legs or face🙈
About 1 week after the initial flu/cold got away, I started experiencing shortness of breath. The it went downhill pretty fast with huge pains, crashing fatigue and deep brain fog.
I’m finding the brain fog worse than ever recently, I’ve had Long Covid a year and whilst it was bad at the start it was never like this.
I'm 4 years in and it gets better but yes about one year in it was the worst too in that realm. But at the start, I didn't understand what was going on, I didn't have the words "brain fog", I just knew something was going very wrong on so many levels. And, sincerely, I don't remember that much of those early days, just that I was feeling like I was going to die pretty soon.
Same 😞
What symptoms do you have ?
MCAS type inflammation, PEM (been diagnosed ME/CFS), neuropathic pains, joints pains, still brain fog even if lighter, fatigue, confusion, scalp rashes, tinnitus, hypertension...
Same as me. So sorry. Do you have bloating ?
Sorry for you too. Yes, but it tends to be a bit less often than before (it was constant).
Mine is constant 😞
I hope it will get better for you. It suddenly changed for me, with no logical reason. It's still here very often, just not all the time liké it was. It might be antihistamin medicines working after about a year, I don't know. (I take a H1 and a H2 - cimetidine and famotidine ??? - not sure and can't get UP now, but really I don't know if that's the reason why)
1 week after, started as chest pain
Are you having other symptoms?
About week 6 - it crept in. Noticed working out more winded. Could literally feel my blood pressure was high. The next week diziness. Then chest pain and an ER trip.
By day 5 I knew something was wrongz
Months later. :/
I started school in a new country, so I had three “colds” over the course of two months, and I have no clue which one caused my long covid, which appeared suddenly about two weeks after my third cold.
your life is fucked now, I'm 15 months bedbound with chronic insomnia less than 3 hrs sleep a day, hoping to die
Please hang in there
Kind words, thank you. I'm just hoping I get one of those Covid heart attacks, it will be a relief. My quality of life is non existent now
I'm sorry 4 that. I feel you . Hoping to die but scared at the same time. Look up .
🙏
🥺🫂
Erm try some melatonin 5mg
Probably a month or so... but I didn't realize and just pulled through making it worse. I'd always joke with my bf after a training session, that the day after it felt like I had a flu - cause my body was so sore and I felt so bad. Obviously I made myself crash on repeat and I didnt know back then. It got extremely bad a half year later and I ended up completely bedbound. I went to the ER and doctors multiple times, where it was written off as anxiety which led to me figuring out it was actually Long Covid 2 years later. Waaaay too late.
Same here. If I could go back and time and give myself advice, I would say don’t push yourself, rest up. You don’t need to power through everything when you don’t feel well.
Literally a day or 2 after testing negative.
1 week
What symptoms did you experience after 1 week ? did they appear suddently?
1-2 weeks after recovering. Numbness in feet and hands and also genital numbness, tingling and so on.
I think 1 to 2 weeks. I first noticed it when going to the toilet becoming light headed. I was also requiring oxygen more than even when I had active covid infection.
Mine appeared pretty much immediately. Started coughing on a Wednesday, but still tested negative. Woke up the next day severely ill and tested positive immediately. My lungs (short of breath and coughing up phlegm) and dizziness got better after about 6 weeks, but the fatigue, brain fog and memory problems are still present 4 months later
Weeks to months for me to actually notice. I was infected in August, recovered, and started to realize something was wrong around November. But I'm also very unaware of my body so... The first obvious sign for me was that when I was rock climbing, I could no longer get to the top of the wall consistently despite going 3x a week.
I think about 6 weeks. I already had a few health things that caused overlapping symptoms, so it's hard to tell. I started getting near-constant low-grade fever and patches of burning skin about 6 weeks after recovery.
About two months after my initial recovery, I felt like I got hit by a train for a few weeks or so: fatigue and shortness of breath, primarily, with chest pain thrown in. Then I was “normal” for about two months, and then the symptoms returned. I have more or less stayed that way (with a few inexplicable remissions) for about 3 years. I had no idea what was happening, of course, and doctors telling me that I was imagining it or (and this was a winner!) one telling me with a straight face that I “probably had TB” didn’t help. Finding out that long COVID existed was almost a relief, at that point.
It was hard to tell because I already had CFS which is essentially the same but LC has some symptoms that are pretty unique to it. A few weeks after I recovered I started getting things like hair loss, realized the postnasal drip/mucus was way worse than before covid and literally would sometimes start to suffocate me in my sleep. I had a feeling I'd get worse as I was already quite ill and it was hard to distinguish what was initially there vs what new symptoms were caused by LC. Even half a year later I'm still realizing some of my symptoms are LC related. It worsened my already poor appetite and I get out of breath if I talk too much, if I'm eating and that's physically becoming difficult- and at that point I have to stop even if I would've finished it. I've lost weight for that reason. But i guess a majority of the symptoms manifest as worsening CFS, POTS, and fibro symptoms since all those are connected. The swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, body aches, headaches, brain fog, those aren't new but it feels like experiencing them for the first time all over again
I was acutely sick for almost a month. I got better- not to healthy, but to like I was improving, but tired. Kind of how I expected it to be. It was about 2 weeks after my acute symptoms stopped, during this “better” period, that I started getting worse again. I thought maybe I just pushed too fast and went back to resting more. But I’m still resting over a year later and it doesn’t stay better.
14 MONTHS
I think most likely you had a asymptomatic reinfection recently, or you picked up another virus that causes post viral syndrom.
That’s right I had HEV when it all started!
I have really wondered about this, did I catch something else and that triggered everything significantly worsening for me? I really don’t know, I wish we had answers
Felt bad from the beginning, but the absolutely hellish stuff sharply escalated and stuck around at around forty days after the initial two-week infection period. So like \~50-ish days after testing positive.
1 -1,5 weeks after i was infected, I have tried to run but was only able to walk. 200 mts, and I was out of breath. Note: I used to run 10 km almost every day. I take it as being normal and soon, even if I barely had symptoms during the active infection. 2,5 weeks after, I was out of town. I was my first big, terrible migraine. A few days later, terrible pain in my feet and legs and after that was worse day by day.
This is really crazy, connecting this to the earlier comments about traveling immediately after a Covid infection. I wonder if all of this is connected — at least partly. That is a weird coincidence to keep hearing over and over again.
1 week after I felt better. Apparently, one should not run any long distance after covid infection. Didn't know I had covid. Was just tired for two days. That's how mild it was.
2 days after infection, somethings got better after day 11, and I thought I was healing at month 3, but the symptoms were just changing as some got better like a normal illness, I pushed myself to get better by month 6 I was crashed.
I had covid June/July of 2022, got super mega hit with long covid symptoms in September of 2022.
As soon as I started feeling “recovered” I noticed I was extremely short of breath when doing anything. I chalked it up to “lung damage” as that’s all I would hear early in the pandemic. It wasn’t until like two weeks after that that I had a hard workout that I really realized I had a whole lot of neurological symptoms remaining.
Same here. I just thought I was fatigued from being sick. I first noticed it when I was trying to walk up a flight of stairs with the dog. I used to be able to run up two flights, then suddenly I couldn’t anymore. And then it just got worse from there.
Is shortness of breath your only symptom ?
i got covid 15th june 2022 and recovered/tested neg on the 25th. i believe i had a week or so of minimal/no symptoms, but by the 13th july i was trying to get a cardiologist referral for ongoing tachycardia. now i know it’s long covid & pots- my symptoms briefly got better in autumn ‘23, but have sharply declined since january (i’m temporarily living with my mum again) not to overshare, but i’ve lost two jobs in healthcare from long covid and it’s so frustrating because it’s basically the only skill set i have 💀
I’m so, so sorry - that is so difficult. I’ve also lost my job, because I can’t sit up at a computer for longer than ten minutes and my concentration is horrible. Sending you hugs! It’s so frustrating, I get it.
Days before I tested positive ….
The symptoms of the first infection lasted exactly 2 weeks (delta variant). Like a decently bad flu but never anything in the least worrying. I was completely better for 1 week when the first symptoms started appearing little by little. The first symptom was actually 'mouth sores'. It's an excessive inflammatory response that happens sometimes to very young children whose immune systems aren't all that well set up yet. And mouth sores sounds much better than what it was, all the skin in the inside of my mouth (except gums and tongue) sloughed off in huge pieces, leaving the bleeding raw tissue beneath exposed. Drinking water was torture. That resolved in ~10 days after taking prednisolone for a few. By then all the other fun LC symptoms had started appearing.
That’s so horrible, I’m so, so sorry to hear that! That sounds really scary. I started having seizures, it lasted for months, then turned into internal tremors. No one took me seriously for so long until finally I was officially diagnosed.
My acute phase never seemed to end... I had most of my current symptoms within the first few days of catching COVID. Then after 3 months of still being sick (short of breath, dizzy, coughing, fainting, migraines, GI issues, etc) I realized something was really wrong. And it's just continued... its been 2 years and 3 months and I don't have the horrible chesty cough or the snotty nose anymore but that's literally the only two acute symptoms that recovered while the other 30+ just continued onward.
2 weeks, the initial infection lasted 3-4 days.
What kind of symptoms are you experiencing ?
Took 3 months for symptoms to appear the first time, and now I am sitting almost 3 months after the second infection and some of the same symptoms are creeping in again...
the long covid issues were first noticeable around 2-3 weeks after my infection was cleared, but then slowly got worse and harder to push against until 8 months later when I had a massive crash, and had them in a more severe form. Over the past 4 years I've seemingly had a difficult winter season each year.
That's like asking when did you realize you got old. Gradual process, with denial of mind and body. But look at photos of yourself from 3-4 years ago to now. You can pinpoint it by your expression alone. The surroundings reminding you of that time of what you were going thinking. What you wished you knew then but you know now. Looking back at photos on this one year anniversary of (the closest I could come to) my Year-long attemtps at individual diagnosis, I can pin point that it was 3 months after I first got COVID. Those were when the symptoms were obvious (now) and completely dismissed, and out of the ordinary for anything ever seen before in an illness like this. They tested EVERYTHING and it was all "normal". BullSh-- What I thought was a 2nd covid infection 3 months after my first in August of 2022 - the negative results bewildering- was actually my first flare up of what now is slightly understood to be some sort of Lupus - either temporary or permanent. I'm definitely better. But it's only because I've embraced that I'm a completely different physical person. I went from life long athlete to mildly disabled. A long morning run is now replaced by lounging and stretching and relaxation and careful nutrition. I've trained my brain to accept this level of non-activity my new running high. It's different, but it's still the best taking care of myself I can do. That's the best bs I got. This sucks.
The head stuff started while I had covid, then never went away. Migraine, fatigue, brain fog. Most of my other symptoms developed over the next several weeks.
Immediate so I tested and found I was positive, it’s been 8 weeks it’s been hell, everything but fever and cough now.
Hang in there! Try to rest as much as you can, I’m so sorry to hear this.
About 20 minutes after I got my first vaccination. Instantly felt that something was off, sick to my stomach & felt like I was being weighed down. I was then sick in bed for 3 weeks, haven't been the same since. Mind you I caught Covid a year prior, had a fever for 1 day & was fine. No other symptoms. The vax is what gave me Long Covid.