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Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jul 22, 2023 | Replies (38)

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@mitchmysterysymptoms

I've been working at the 'keep moving' part (pretty much in synch with my now-routine sine wave of energy/fatigue/vertigo/inflamed lymphatic system expansion-contraction model-of-life) so 'stagger down a sidewalk and around a few blocks' every day or two and get outside to do a little light yardwork and breathe some fresh air but need to keep remembering the only reason I seem to be able to do THAT much is because 'daily 60mg adderall', also (for me). I've been a lifelong 'optimist' at heart - successfully overcoming significant odds and opposition on various and sundry life-events, yet, scenarios I run in my head on 'this one' have me reduced to 'sell out and relocate to some metro region with decent healtcare infrastructure' or 'screw it, turn on the TV and binge watch until I just fade away...' Like you, I've been a lifelong 'fitness afficianado' and healthy eater, active routinely and outside 'doing something' up and down ladders, landscaping, swimming, working out, hiking, playing, yada... until covid tossed a wrench into my gears with 'multiple symptoms at odds with the standard checklists plugged into the system - plus malaise' - after retiring to a 'healthcare desert' where the only thing I can be assured of is repeated efforts to give me colonoscopies and labtests every 6 months and then send me on my way until the next 15 minute office visit because 'everything is normal!' see you in 6 months. NEXT! I am asserting myself to get what I'm getting - and every damn thing is like prying a tooth from the monster called 'Healthcare'.

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Man-o-man do I understand you! But after fighting this insanity for two and a half years and moaning through it, I have saved my own life thus far. Not one doctor I have seen has helped because they don’t have any answers....and none of them use an open mind for holistic approach. That’s probably where the answers are but they are probably waiting for a long hauler vaccine. Keep taking those those walks and if you think moving will find a better healthcare situation ....not sure about that. As for long haul clinics ...unless they have tapped into the research they are just mental bandaides for making you believe they might help. The truth be told. Johns Hopkins is probably worth the trip. So if you move do so near a place that is proving they are forerunners in this. I spend my time pushing myself out the door to the store....speed walking on the treadmill....and downing Gabapentin for nerve issues. I do not take any meds so this will be a short term trial. I rely on supplements that have been touted in long haul research. I am way ahead of where I was 2 and a half years ago.
Choose to use the day to stop and smell the roses...Yep, we got a real jar to our schedule, but we can fight it...