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Anyone have symptoms of longhaul COVID, but didn't have infection?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Mar 5, 2022 | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
I got the first Covid vaccine in March. In the following two months, my heartbeat raced & shortness of breath when standing up. I sat on bed for two months. Since April, the airflow out of the nose is decreasing.
I have gone through extensive follow-up appoints with cardiologist, pulmonologists, and neurologists. Tests such as chest x-ray, lung CT, PFT, EKG, Echo and EMG have been done. It has ruled out heart disease lung disease and neuromuscular disorders. However, the pulmonary function test do show abnormal high RV (residual air in the lung after forceful exhalation) and abnormal MIP/MEP (maximal inhale/exhale pressure). The pulmonologist thought it is related to weak muscles that cannot expel the air out of lung. However, the neuromuscular specialist ruled out that. My breathing issues now became a mystery to the doctors now. It is very terrible that I feel like no breathing due to poor airflow. I often feel numbness in the hands and legs now. My average blood oxygen level is 94%.
I do believe the vaccine can cause unexpected effects on the brain. It is out of the experience of the doctors. I am anxious and living in fear in the past eight 8 months. I am uncertain which direction the breathing issues will bring me to.
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I've had these kind of breathing issues for a few years now and I didn't have covid or get any of the shots. for the past month or so I feel like I can hear my heartbeat in my head. I get short of breath just moving around the house. I'm back on Cpap but I still take Sunosi 37.5mg to keep me from napping and to I have energy to do stuff than just sit. I have had many of the tests you've mention. it's a relief to just know I'm not the only one! so thanks for sharing. I can sit at the drs office or my chair and watch my 02 sats go down to 86% and then I seem to take a deep breath.
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My husband has had similar experience with the vaccines and booster. All have increased the severity of these symptoms and also led to speech degradation (difficulty in word finding, effortful speech, stutters and stammers) as well as increased suicidal ideation along with the litany of regular covid issues (SOB/coughing/lung issues, brain fog/decreased mental acuity, enhanced irritability and at times nearly zero bandwidth to deal with chaos, fatigue, insomnia, noise intolerance, cold intolerance, etc. The medical community largely does not agree that what he is dealing with is related to covid or the vaccines and he has been through testing of all major systems - which have ruled out any identifiable issues/disease. It is VERY frustrating - we continue to seek medical providers that will attempt to address this as a systemic issue and continue to search all current scientific/medical research. This has been ongoing for about a year at this point with last spring/summer/fall being the lowest times of our lives due to daily symptoms and no answers.
Collectively, I am very hopeful that we can educate the medical establishment and find treatments. Sending you our best, Ellen and Ric