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[Closed] 'Long Covid'

kenneththecurtain · 2020-09-25T07:21:52Z

I know, I know - another Covid-19 thread. I think this would just get lost in the noise in the main thread though, as it's quite specific. I thought it'd be worth having a discussion about 'long Covid'. There's not a huge amount of info out there about it, I guess in part because it's a new 'thing'. My own experience was a mild illness (mostly just a sore throat, with loss of sense of smell) back in late Feb/early March, courtesy of a colleague returning from holiday in Spain. Didn't think much of it at the time, but a month or two later started having issues with elevated heart rate, then chest pain and fatigue. Numerous investigations/scans etc followed, and the doctors have agreed that it's mostly likely that I have some sort of post viral fatigue/long Covid. 6 months later, my high heart rate issues are mostly gone, but I'm still left with chest pain and general tiredness/fatigue if I overdo it (which doesn't take much) and sometimes even if I don't overdo it. I've dropped from cycling most days and running 50-60km a week 6 months ago to doing basically no running and cycling to work when I can. In general, I would say things are getting better, but it's very slow and I seem to get a lot of setbacks. If I start feeling the chest pain coming on I tend to then get several days of feeling like **** and having no energy. Which brings me to the discussion part.... My local hospital (Ninewells) has set up a post-covid clinic for people with similar issues, which has been very useful in keeping me up to date with how others are getting on, and what the latest research is. There's only so much first-hand info out there though so perhaps stw, as the fount of all knowledge, would be a good way to share experiences. So, who else has been dealing with something similar? How long has it been going on, and how are you dealing with it? Has anyone got through it yet and returned to some sort of normality?

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amodicumofgnar

Posts: 2003

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I’m having to tell myself to breath properly which is really weird

Had you seen the stuff in the news about breathing work by the English National Opera that's on a roll out

I thought one of the things that came out in developing the exercises was people with long covid are breathing differently / from a different place.

Posted : 02/02/2021 6:27 pm

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