I don't know how long it has been since I originally had covid. It was sometime during the height of it all when we were all masked and locked down. Long covid, for me, made my muscles fatigue with any kind of continuous use. This primarily hit my arms, although I felt it in my legs some as well. I had shortness of breath and I would feel flutters in my chest sometimes.

The fatigue I had was odd. Early on when I used my muscles to do heavy lifting, I would pay for it starting 2 days later and it would last for at least a week. A year later and I could still do heavy lifting and and I had no repercussions if it was fairly quick (carrying something for a minute and put it down). But any amount of consistent weight (lifting my phone to my ear for 5 minutes) resulted in fatigue, carrying anything light for 10 minutes, and holding my head up all day at work was killing my neck.

That neck pain became bad and would result in excruciating headaches. A PT said this was the muscles causing nuchal ridge pain. I ordered a device (a rubber triangle thing) that manually pushes/separates/rubs this area while laying on it and turning my head. It would make my neck crack and release the muscle tension. It worked great. I had to use it for the last year or so and still use it from time to time.

Getting better (which I'm still doing) is hard to notice because improvements are so slight. But, over long periods of time, I know what it was like back then and I can see the improvements. Noticing fatigue is less and less often. Shortness of breath and flutters are very infrequent.

Before covid I was taking the stairs to work 14 to 16 flights. I have now done that a couple times in the last couple months and am starting to feel like starting to do it again.

I'm thankful this is getting better for me. Here is a recollection of my situation: I originally got the Covid vaccine early on. One of the first when the "I got shot" photo-selfie sign was up. I never got boosted after that. I have had a tested positive result of Covid twice, and have not probably had it more than that. But I have also had negative results even after being exposed from close contact with other Covid positive people.

I will pray for all of you who are suffering afflictions with the results of this whole thing (be it Covid, vaccines, whatever). I pray for you to see positive results and have hope that your symptoms fade away faster than mine have.

God Bless