Long COVID
No benefit
Long COVID and using five-minute timers for household chores, no improvement
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Last post
- Jun 2024
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
But I'm 90 percent certain I have LC
In context ↗ - Now: No benefit
And yep this stupid LC sucks.
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Summary
By 2023 Alpine 23884, retired in a small Southern town in Georgia, was "90 percent certain" she had long COVID and dreaded seeking help for it. She described a lifelong delayed sleep phase disorder that medications had largely not helped, and said she responds badly to most drugs apart from aspirin and a few others. By mid-2024 she was using five-minute timers for household chores.
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What they tried
Also tried
Ambien· Helped · wore offXanax· Helpedno expectations on sleep, no morning appointments· Helpedantidepressants· Worsemelatonin· WorseADD meds· Not saidiron· Not saidtimers for 5 minutes at a time· Not said
Their words about each treatment
- antidepressants · Worse
They would get me so convinced I would try them. And they always caused me further problems.
In context ↗ - ADD meds · Not said
Or ADD meds, because when I'm sleep deprived I'm quite ADD, big surprise there, Haha.
In context ↗ - iron · Not said
I stopped complaining about feeling tired and tried to get more iron.
In context ↗ - melatonin · Worse
melatonin gives me nightmares and brings on depression.
In context ↗ - Ambien · Helped
sometimes I'm okay to take say, Ambien maybe once a week. But it's not really working anymore either.
In context ↗ - Xanax · Helped
Xanax, Xanax will work to put me to sleep the couple of times a month i need it.
In context ↗ - no expectations on sleep, no morning appointments · Helped
I put no expectation on my sleep at all. I make no appts until afternoons. Etc. It's helped me finally sleep for longer at night.
In context ↗ - timers for 5 minutes at a time · Not said
i have been using timers for 5 minutes at a time at whatever chore.
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Adverse events
- Antidepressants (unspecified)“They would get me so convinced I would try them. And they always caused me further problems.” In context ↗ Side effects
- Stimulants (unspecified)“Or ADD meds, because when I'm sleep deprived I'm quite ADD ... And they always caused me further problems.” In context ↗ Side effects
- “I've tried about everything. The side affects are almost always intolerable.” In context ↗ Side effects
- Melatonin“melatonin gives me nightmares and brings on depression” In context ↗ Mood or psychiatric effects
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Sleep problems
I just never could fall asleep until 4 hours or so later than other people
In context ↗ - Anxiety & low mood
it's very hard to get to sleep at all because i have such deep anxiety over it
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