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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 am presuming an initial asymptomatic acute COVID infection because literally overnight, from 9/10/2020 to 9/11/2020, I went from trim, healthy and active with no comorbidities, taking no prescription medications, walking 3-7 miles per day, to suffering shortness of breath; dizziness; chest pain/pressure; brainfog; fatigue; heart racing/palpitations/rate spikes and dips (up to 200bpm/down to mid-40bpm) with little to no exertion – many times while sitting, with nausea, full body flushes preceding these “episodes”; headaches; ribcage soreness, visual changes… overnight. My entire bag-o-symptoms are not always present together nor to the worst degree, but have been always everyday in some combination to varying degrees of severity since onset 9/11/2020. With any level of activity I risk a “crash” involving increase of severity of any or all symptoms lasting sometimes for days.
[After 2 NEGATIVE PCR tests, and 1 NEGATIVE Antibody test, I finally got a POSITIVE T-Detect t-cell test 8/30/2021. I couldn’t imagine it being anything but Long COVID, but after almost a year of this it was nice to get validation…]
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What a scary battle! Has it improved at all?
It sounds like nothing is out of the realm of possibilities. As with what I’ve had, it’s not anywhere near those symptoms. But it has strictly been the neurological things. I haven’t at all felt sick in any other way. Just one day I started getting eye flashes, and gradually began feeling light headed and spacey and foggy. In the same couple of months experienced quite a bit of heart burn as well, which is highly unusual for me, I’m 35 and healthy.
Thank you for your input, and I hope it all improved with you.
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I also have had the battery of diagnostic testing. With the exception of a Tilt Table Test resulting in a diagnosis of Postural Orthostatic Hypotension, all have come back within NORMAL range … blood tests, chest x-rays, ECHO, Cardiac Stress Test, Pulmonary Function Test, Chest CT. Scan.
T-cells have the longest “memory” over antibodies, so you have a greater chance of getting a positive test result with this where the window is very limited with a PCR or Antibody test. I got my t-cell POSITIVE almost a year after symptom onset. Since I’m presuming an initial asymptomatic acute COVID case, I have no idea how much time had lapsed since my COVID infection.
Link to T-Detect website to order t-cell test:
https://www.t-detect.com/
I hope you get some answers and good guidance to get you on the road to a swift and complete recovery.