Thank you for your hopeful words. I had Covid in Oct. 2021. Hospitalized, went home with 02 and thought: "ok I am home and I will be back to normal in a week." This is March 2023 and guess it's been 1 long week. I had been a runner and marathoner before I injured my back. I found new ways to stay fit at the YMCA, yoga, pilaties, weights, some low energy cardio classes. plus I have 2 wonderful small older dogs who love to walk. I no longer can do any of these things. I don't feel like myself and haven't since I contacted Covid. Fatigue, malaise, fog brain and other less annoying things. The fatigue and malaise are the worst for me. My PCP doesn't think there is long Covid and will not talk about it. I made appoint with another MD at the clinic and he told me the medicines I was taking were causing the fatigue.
I am in the process of changing PCP clinic. I am so grateful that I survived Covid. Many of the patients in the Covid ICU died before my discharge. I am trying to figure out how to live my life with no energy. All this time with hardly any energy. For example, I have gotten to a place in my life where I can meet a dear friend for coffee. After that I have to return home and take a very long nap. If I try to shop for groceries I have to ask my daughter for help taking groceries out of the car and into the house. I have so much fatigue and muscle ache.
Just recently I walked my dogs a block and a half. They were so excited to go out with me. Before Covid I was energetic, went to YMCA 5 days a week, gardened and worked on the grass, saw my friends. Did so many activities. Yes, I am 75 yet I look a young 60 and feel an old 90. I believe I will get better yet when? It is difficult to accept that I may never be and feel how I did before Covid. I did have the first 2 Covid vaccines before coming down with Covid. Now I am learning to try to pace mayself and accept my limits. Depression has been a problem for me since Covid. Most days I am not sure who I am anymore. I am happy for the individuals who have found hope and are moving on in their recovery. Maybe I am slowly moving on in recovery too yet cannot seem to recognize it?