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Is Long Covid limiting your ability to drive?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 4 8:32pm | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
There was a time a few months ago where I couldn't drive at all, or even ride in a car. It was too overstimulating neurologically somehow (I'm 35 and was healthy so this shouldn't be the case). Now I can drive short distances, but not further than 30 mins at a time. And if it's 30 mins out to someplace and 30 mins back, I am dead for the rest of the day. It's a real problem. I haven't been able to leave further than an hour or two drive from my house in over 2 years.
Do you get the same problems when you hang out with people too much? I can't be social for too long or I get the same shortness of breath/fatigue/swelling that I get if I drive too far. There's definitely something neuro going on that I'm trying to get to the bottom of.
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Yes— I do. I take class online, and for awhile I would be unable to deal after 20min. I have also learned that soc stim leads me to syncope. I went into a grocery store and the colors, sounds, people… had to leave.
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I saw a neurologist associated with my long covid clinic a couple of months ago. H told me he's been seeing a lot of long covid patients with similar symptoms (brain fog, hand tremors, etc.) to mine. He also said that, if it made me feel better, he could order a lot of tests, but he could almost guarantee that they would all come back "normal". The only viable theory I've heard (so far) is that the virus led to micro clots that block capillaries reducing blood flow to various organs (including the brain).