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New/worsened symptoms over time?

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jan 10 5:44pm | Replies (4)

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@debbie75

Though I don't have a blow by blow summary like you do @jeindc , I tested positive for COVID for the first time on 8/25/2020 after extreme fatigue and fever started on 8/24/20. I was ill for three weeks (fortunately at that time my company was paying my full salary as I contracted it from a patient even with social distancing and each of us wearing a mask). I felt close to 100% by December 2020, had my first Moderna on 2/1/2021 and the second on 3/1/21. Had side effects from the second shot, took a couple of days off to recover also on full pay. Two weeks later I tested positive again for COVID though much milder a case, was only out a week that time. That's when the LC symptoms began. I strongly believe my LC is from the vaccine, and there is more and more coming out about what Moderna and Pfizer kept from the public/lied to the public about the safety of the vaxes. My symptoms (brain fog--enough to diagnose me with mild cognitive impairment at 49 y/o (my IQ dropped 15 points, from 140 to 125 due to processing issues)--PEM, extreme fatigue, hypersomnia, joint and muscle pain, I still cannot taste or smell things since the initial infection 8/2020. I have been using intermittent FMLA at work and am now on Short term Disability until the end of this month when I will begin my return very slowly and only for a couple of hours a couple of days each week. I am lucky to work for a very understanding boss and company; honestly they should have fired me by now due to attendance policies, but they have been good to me after 5 years of employment. So, to answer your question, yes, my symptoms have gradually worsened since their initiation in March 2021.

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Thanks, @debbie75. I wanted to correct my note having left off that the last doc I saw (the reason I have details is because I've seen so many docs I get tired of telling the story) and I discussed that I MIGHT have had COVID in early March 2020. I traveled for work before vaccinations and when it was though clean hands would keep us safe. I was gone March 9-12, right before lockdown.

I am always tired and sniffly after a long trip - a conference at which I spoke and interacted with lots of folks and then LONG flights and layovers to return - so thought nothing of it. I developed a rash on both upper arms and my upper back about 2 weeks later. I thought dry skin or an allergic reaction. It also like on my leg has never left.

So I can't attribute it to the vaccine because I was a long way from getting it. I'm reading as you are lots of stuff that says it could be but as a "polio pioneer" who stayed well while the little boy next door got the placebo and polio, I would rather be vaccinated than not. It is possible for all of us to have a drug reaction.

That's why, @gently I can't try Paxlovid tho I too have read it can help long COVID. I tried it the first day I tested positive (first of April 2023) and had a violent reaction - was so shaky and 'wired' that I thought I was having some sort of seizure. My doc took me off of it immediately.

Whatever the 'latest' thought is that they think will work is published in google alerts. Now it's exercise! If I could move enough I'd try even chair yoga!

What an incredible journey. One day, medical students will learn more about us. I hope they archive these posts.

JE