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Long covid versus vaccine injury?

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 26 6:22pm | Replies (10)

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I am new here and wanted to share my story for maybe some help or guidance. Prior to having covid in December of 2020 I was a 1/2 marathon runner. After having covid for the first time I was diagnosed for the first time in my entire life with asthma. I now have inhalers and a nebulizer and a pulmonologist. I get winded just walking around the halls at the school where I teach or up my stairs at my home from my basement. I have never experience this before. I have always been fit and active. I was a health/wellness coach. I used to wear a an oxygen deprivation mask to deprive my lung of oxygen to help me train to get to higher elevation level for mountain trail running. None of this makes sense to me and just frustrates me. Exercise has always been my outlet for mental health and clarity and to challenge myself. Then I got the 2 vaccines, to only get covid two more times. I then got the booster and two months after receiving the booster, I got out of the shower to notice I had no arm hair, my eyebrow hair was almost all gone and I had a round spot on my head where my hair was gone. As time passed (weeks) the spot on my head got bigger and more started to show up. My PCP sent me to a coupe dermatologist to only be diagnosed with Alopecia Areata. I ended up losing over 80%-85% of my hair on my head. They had told me that I wasn't the first case they had seen this happen to after the booster. Unfortunately, there is no research or evidence to back it so they are just diagnosing people who were going through the similar situation I was with different types of Alopecia depending on the severity of hair loss. I have other things going on and I am not sure if they are covid related, but it is frustrating to have no answers and to go to specialist that just tell me I need therapy. I was almost convinced that I was losing my mind with the other health issues...like confusion, numbness, high resting heart rate, can't remember things, clumsiness are just to name a few. Thankfully, I have a PCP that listens, but when you have no other doctors that do what am I supposed to do?

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Welcome to connect and I hope you will find some good information here because there are many people going through the same issues as you. I am very sorry for your struggles and I know how devastating it is to suddenly become someone you don’t know anything about, covid has definitely made a big impact on so many people, we keep going to different doctors and they run tests only to tell you that they can’t find anything or they don’t know what to say. I had covid in 2022 and since then I’ve been trying to cope with the new me, I had a cancer diagnosis in 2020 followed by two surgeries…I truly believe that I changed more from having had covid…it’s scary enough to get symptoms from a disease that we know but the different symptoms people are getting from covid is devastating, I realize that you only get so much comfort in numbers but it’s a starting point and that’s what you’re going to do now, don’t let it take you down, do whatever is necessary to get the right help you need, also I too have lost more hair since covid, I think I will buy a cool hat for cover, 🙂