Long COVID
Severe → near normalIll 1 year before improving or writing
Long COVID with relapsing smell and taste loss, now mostly normal
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill before improving or writing
- 1 year
- Last post
- Aug 2021
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I had four "relapses" afterwards this past year, where I suddenly lost back my senses of taste & smell.
In context ↗ - At worst: Severe
I couldn't hold a conversation for more than five minutes and had to catch my breath if I'd go to the mail box or putting out the trash.
In context ↗ - Now: Near normal
everything else feels mostly normal
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
I had COVID last year.
In context ↗
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Summary
Horizon 32937 had COVID in 2020 and was ill for about six weeks with no smell or taste, breathlessness, fatigue and pressure, then recovered gradually. Over the next year they had four relapses of lost smell and taste lasting 3-4 days to three weeks. At the latest post they were in another relapse, could smell about 10-20% and taste 5%, but were otherwise mostly normal and had hiked for six hours.
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| When | What happened | Where they were |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | COVID-19 infectionI had COVID last year.In context ↗ | Severe |
| about six weeks later | smell and taste returned and everything gradually came back to normalI was able to find back my senses of smell and taste after those six weeks and, gradually, everything came back to normal.In context ↗ | Recovered |
| past year | four relapses of lost smell and tasteI had four "relapses" afterwards this past year, where I suddenly lost back my senses of taste & smell.In context ↗ | Near normal |
| 2021-08-23 | current relapse of lost smell and tasteI'm currently in another one of those relapses since Monday.In context ↗ | Near normal |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Loss of smell or taste
I could smell at 20% and taste at 5%.
In context ↗ - Breathlessness
shortness of breath
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