How it feels to have COVID-19 symptoms after four months - Business Insider

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I'm an epidemiologist who's had COVID-19 symptoms for over four months. Here's what it's been like so far, and what the road ahead looks like. (via ConversationUS)

More than four months later, the symptoms have not gone away. My heart still races even though I am resting. I cannot stay in the sun for long periods; it zaps all of my energy. I have gastrointestinal problems, ringing in the ears, and chest pain.

I'm what's known as a long-hauler — part of a growing group of people who have COVID-19 and have never fully recovered. Fatigue is one of the most common persistent symptoms, but there are many others, including the cognitive effects people often describe as brain fog. As more patients face these persistent symptoms, employers will have to find ways to work with them. It's too soon to say we're disabled, but it's also too soon to know how long the damage will last.

. Instead, I was diagnosed with a respiratory illness, prescribed the Z-pack antibiotic and a low dosage of an anti-inflammatory medication normally used for arthritis patients.released in May shows COVID-19 deaths in America do not reflect the pandemic's true mortality rate. If I had died at home, my death would not have been counted as COVID-19.

Margot Gage Witvliet and her daughters started a video blog before she fell ill. They ended up documenting her COVID-19 experience. By the end of March, I was on the road to recovery. Then I had a seizure. In the ER, the doctor said I had COVID-19 and that I was lucky — tests showed my organs did not have lasting damage. After the seizure, I lay in my bedroom for weeks with the curtains drawn, because light and sound had started to hurt.I did not understand why I was not recovering. I began searching for answers online. I found a support group for people struggling with COVID-19 long-term.

 

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ConversationUS Sounds like anxiety is the main culprit of the lingering symptoms and that's completely normal because getting Covid19 can be a traumatic experience. This entire pandemic is giving a lot of people anxiety. The physical symptoms of anxiety are absolutely debilitating.

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