Has anyone completely gotten over Long Covid? Please post here

It decreased in severity and became more manageable with medications and self-treatment strategies.

But it did NOT “go away”. It has been reactivated or simply started as a new version due to 2 recent covid infections. I had about 1 year of a more normal life due to getting appropriate medical care (the non-gaslighting kind), helpful medications, and accommodating employment (sort of).

I have not been able maintain, on a regular basis, some of the very helpful self-treatment strategies, mostly due to needing to work. I do them occasionally, aiming for 2 X per week. It's mostly medication because a pill minder is easier and faster that NIR + red light therapy, TENS, or Yoga. Medications are more expensive though.

I'm sure that some people do fully recover; depending on age, gender, when in the pandemic they caught it, pre-existing health conditions, how many active COVID-19 infections they had over time, how acute they were, and environmental conditions, then & now.

I was very, very lucky to stumble upon an MD who was willing to treat me outside of her specialty.

That made the world of difference.

I am also a “responder” to basically almost any vaccination. For a few weeks after covid, flu, pneumonia, shingles, vaccinations etc I feel almost completely normal. Covid boosters especially do this.

I probably have a very damaged immune system. I had ALL infectious childhood illnesses, including measles, and mono. Then starting in late adolescence, transfusions (who knows what lurked in those way back), mysterious infectious type illnesses, then HCV, HSV 1+2, etc. Living a very clean life may have proffered some protection, I don't know.

I know I'm lucky to be alive and functioning. I'm deeply grateful to those couple of MDs who managed to lift the curse on me of “it's all in your head” and see the infectious illnesses I'd had as an entire life package of risks factors after I got sick with COVID-19.

I hope everyone recovers, I really believe it's possible somehow. I hope medical care learns from COVID-19 and LC + CFS/ME and is better able to support and heal people with these illnesses.

I replied to your question, but I'm sorry, the reply did not really provide much hope.

I want to add that I found ways to function exceptionally well, my symptoms were overall less severe, and most people around me had no clue of what I was experiencing. The sacrifice was in relinquishing many things I enjoyedsin order to function at work and in social.contexts. So in a sense, I did recover, just not completely. There absolutely is hope.

Don’t feel bad about the reassurance you get from knowing someone else is having a similar experience mscott. That is why I joined this discussion. I don’t know anyone else with this and most people know or hear very little about it. Sometimes I feel like my friends think I am just strange. I no longer go out and seldom leave the house unless it is necessary.

You can get LDN through AgelessRx.

I doubt that I will ever completely recover. I had the Moderna vaccines & I get bouts of extreme foggyness, fatigue & whole body pain rather frequently. Luckily it only lasts about a day & improves with Tylenol. Ibuprofen makes it worse, just like we were told when we had covid!! A friend says it sounds like fibromyalgia, so I guess I have LC Fibromyalgia now. Great!! I also continue to have a thick mucous coughing problem but that has mostly improved nicely with new meds & only flares up when the weather is cooler & wetter. From reading these comments, things could be SO MUCH WORSE!!! I am grateful my symptoms are not debilitating. My new outlook on life is to do everything I want to do NOW!!! No more waiting around for a better time or situation that may never come!!

QUESTION!

Does Tylenol help with your FATIGUE? the FOG? the PAIN? Which ones?
It’s good to hear it helps something! Best wishes,
Stuart

. . . rather, the Dept of Health and Human Services cut back funding. Much of it was restored, however. Rest assured that scientists all over the world continue to research LC treatments despite any cuts in funding.

LC research continues all over the world. The Trump Admin. cancelled some research but it was restored soon afterward. The news didn’t report any specifics, however, so it’s difficult to know what was cut and what was restored.