Long COVID exercise intolerance and joint pain, back to pre-COVID self after second dose
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- Not stated
- Last post
- Apr 2021
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Felt like some of the worst days of covid
In context ↗ - Now: Recovered
I feel like my old pre-covid self.
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
some of the worst days of covid
In context ↗
Read from 1 of their posts and comments; links to the one this page draws on
Summary
A person left with exercise intolerance and joint pain after COVID. A first dose caused two days feeling as bad as the worst days of COVID plus five days of exhaustion. After the second dose they said they felt like their old pre-COVID self, exercising for an hour the day of the shot with no exercise intolerance or joint pain afterwards.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- second one · Helped a lot
Then I got the second one and all of a sudden....I feel like my old pre-covid self.
In context ↗
Approaches: Vaccination
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | COVID infectionsome of the worst days of covidIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| — | first Pfizer dose caused a flareI was really sick with the first one. Felt like some of the worst days of covid for two days and then 5 days of exhaustion.In context ↗ | Not stated | |
| 2021-04-26 | second Pfizer dose, felt like pre-COVID selfThen I got the second one and all of a sudden....I feel like my old pre-covid self.In context ↗ | Recovered | COVID vaccination as treatment |
Adverse events
- COVID vaccination as treatment“I was really sick with the first one. Felt like some of the worst days of covid for two days and then 5 days of exhaustion.” In context ↗ Side effects
Symptoms mentioned
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