‘Long Covid’

For anyone else still struggling with this thing, this is some of the best post-covid information I’ve come across. Detailed advice on supplements, exercise etc. Detailed and precise, but not over complicated. Well worth a listen – it’s audio only btw.

I’ve been using the Ubiquinol recommended in that video for week or two now. Seems to have made a difference to energy levels, though my symptoms have ben very up and down the last few months so it may just be coincidence. Cheers for the link.

It’s very obviously a thing, and could easily be a bigger issue overall than the fatalities. It’s also showing signs of becoming a new ME

And yet there is a suggestion that only those at higher risk of death will get the vaccine.

The government and its experts have been telling us for 9 months covid is serious for all ages, and it clearly is. They are now suggesting vaccinating under 50s isn’t part of the plan (even in lomg term), and they’ll just need to deal with any ‘minor ailments’ they succumb to.

If that ends up being the plan then it’s a xxxxing disgrace given what we know about long covid.

If that ends up being the plan then it’s a xxxxing disgrace given what we know about long covid.

Given we know more about covid and long covid (admittedly we don’t “know” alot….but we have lots of observations) than we do about any potential vaccine…

I’m ok with that. If anything I’m.more concerned about long term effects of the vaccine on the over 50s at this stage.

A long rambling post, jump to the final paragraph if you can’t be bothered.

I’m still suffering as of March 10th last year, I had obvious covid symptoms for a week with a very dry cough and consistent sore throat, abated for two days the hit me lake a hammer for another three weeks. Following on from that I had no energy and was constantly clearing my throat and developed a more phlegmy cough, a few timed I’d coughed so hard I hurt my eye and had to start holding my eye in when I coughed, also my always congested sinuses were even worse than normal. Being a stupid man I just soldiered on thinking it’ll get better soon but after about five months I thought shit I might be dying I’d better get this checked out.

So, many calls to the doctors getting fobbed off, saying I think I had covid which just seemed to be brushed aside or ignored, grudgingly being prescribed antibiotics which seemed to help but the symptoms just carried on. Eventually had bloods and an Xray which showed nothing. Another doctor then said as a hail Mary attempt to show we’ve tried everything prescribed high strength anti-histamines, anti-biotics and omeprazole, I was immediately much worse and saw the side effects of the first two were an enlarged oesophagus so cut them out and I’ve been better to some degree since.

Since then I’ve been on Omeprozole and Ozemeprozole up to 80mg a day along with Gaviscon advance just managing the symptoms, got referred for a gastroscopy on the thinking that the coughing may have caused a hernia and through persistence managed to jump the 42 week queue and got checked out on the 23rd of December, nothing found. Back to the docs and he was happy to finally refer me to ENT although said I’ll have to go private or likely wait a year. So I saw the specialist two weeks back and he said this was 100% silent reflux caused by Covid and that he’d seen a huge spike in similar cases in the last nine months. I was being careful with diet anyway but now I’m living like a gastro-monk and after a rough couple of days I’m hoping it’s going the right way. I just want this crap gone I’m feeling utterly defeated and it’s pretty much robbed a year of my life. Oh and another thing is the shortness of breath or more specifically the shallowness of my breathing, I’m having to tell myself to breath properly which is really weird. The symptoms have morphed and changed so much over the 10 months it made it difficult to explain and re-explain to docs what the hell was gong on.

I’m ok with that. If anything I’m.more concerned about long term effects of the vaccine on the over 50s at this stage.

We don’t really know anything about long covid yet, how are these folks like schrick above and others in just this thread gonna be in 5, 10 years?.

I’ll take my chances any time with a vaccine thank you very much, it’s not as if we’re gonna be short of it. If you don’t then that’s your choice, but at the very least we should get the choice, and not left because we’re under some arbitrary age barrier.

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.