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After having 6 Covid Vaccines to date: How are you doing?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 24 5:42pm | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
Yes, before Covid I felt a very “young” 72. Able to do whatever I wanted. For the first six months I continued on fairly normally, but over time the symptoms started to take me down.
I have mostly sensory and digestive issues. Hearing, vision, balance, and bowel issues. I have had so many treatments and doctors, I can’t even remember it all anymore.
Now, I am barely able to bathe and take care of my personal needs. I am fortunate to have a husband who has stuck with me, and taken up the tasks I can no longer accomplish.
I have very little pain for which I am thankful.
Still, I am incapacitated by dizziness, and malfunctioning eyes and ears. I also suffer from tinnitus and hyperacusis which makes it doubly hard to be around people in normal settings. It’s as if my body is broken, and no longer knows how to function.
Life is passing me by, because I can no longer participate. And, as you say, after two years a heavy depression has settled on me.
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A hug is not enough. And I so identify with what you wrote. I had my first televisit w/ a Long COVID clinic today and recounted all my symptoms that I did not have pre-March 2023 COVID and the ones that occurred after I may have had a mild case in March 2020.
Like you, they've now recommended even MORE doctors for me to see. That alone seems to not be understood by the medical community - that a) when we are exhausted and for me, pain added, going out is more than we can physically and sometimes mentally do; b) not all of us have ease of transportation; c) some of us still work and/or if we have spouses or partners they do and taking off to take us is if not impossible, very difficult.
That I had returned from a long biz trip March 12, 2020 and it was my last - first bec of lockdown and then being cautious and now bec the idea of travel is far beyond my capability.
I wanted to be encouraged today. Alas, I am incredibly discouraged and would almost prefer living w/ the pain (treated) and nothing else since it there are too few answers and too little investigation and we are the experiments.
Sending you strength and thanks to your husband and mine for helping us.