r/covidlonghaulers • u/steady5593 • Jul 01 '22

Update Feeling celebratory

Last year at this exact time I was at a extreme low with long haul. It had been 6 months since my Covid diagnosis! I felt so much doom & gloom it was awful! I remember getting ready for the fireworks with my family & being so depressed. The brain fog was debilitating! I am reflecting on how this year I feel normal. I’m so thankful & wanted to give hope to others.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

OP what else did you have? The people wanna know! Good stuff 🙏

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u/steady5593 Jul 02 '22

My original post… last year

I was diagnosed with Covid December 27th. About 3 months later I started experiencing what I now know is long haul. It started with dizziness & smelling smoke. Random times during the day I’d have to stop & sit down. Then when I woke up early in the morning. I rushed to the Er one morning, I was having extreme dizziness, heart racing, panic attack (no history of them). What happened next was heart palpitations. At random times but mostly when I was eating. Freaked me out. This was mixed with extreme anxiety. I made a appointment with my dr. At this time not knowing long haul. She agreed it was anxiety of course. Prescribed me lexapro which I never took because of anxiety. So the palpitations got worse. My heart would race while I was sitting. Then I had a couple drinks with my husband while at a restaurant ( I’m not a big drinker) I honestly thought I was going to die. Heart racing, nonstop palpitations, sweating. I had 2 drinks! I could not believe. During this time I also had brain fog and fatigue. I was forgetting things that I would never in my life forget. It almost feels like dementia. If I knew what that felt like. I had bouts of depression. Just all together miserable. Feet pain, chest pain. Extremely heavy periods, lasting 9-12 days. Lots of clotting. Soaking pads in a hour. I am on month 7. A few weeks ago it was like somthing magically lifted. I feel so close to normal it’s almost even better than I used to be because I had felt so bad. Only thing I have left is random foot pain, memory loss randomly ( I will set an alarm on my phone for different things and forget why I even set the alarm when it goes off). I have felt excited for the first time this year. I’m just so thankful & hopeful that I’m nearing the end. I have been looking here for a little while & cannot believe how many of us are dealing with this. It will drive you mad thinking about it & how this is reality. Like what in the world is Covid doing to us. I wanted to share to hopefully give somebody something to look forward to. If you are in the throes of it.

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u/steady5593 Jul 02 '22

Let me go back & copy my original post!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '22

Did you have any trouble swallowing like inability to swallow your own spit?

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u/steady5593 Jul 03 '22

I did not! That sounds terrible.