Long COVID
Severe → no benefitIll for 6 months
Long COVID with anhedonia and constant symptoms, no improvement on metformin or psilocybin
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 6 months
- Last post
- Nov 2024
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Zero effect since lc started.
In context ↗ - At worst: Severe
15% of my past energy
In context ↗ - Now: No benefit
I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME AS 2 MONTHS AGO
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
Zero effect since lc started.
In context ↗
Read from 7 of their posts and comments; links to the 7 this page draws on
Summary
A 23-year-old who developed long COVID had been ill about six months by November 2024, with constant symptoms and only 15% of their past energy. Anhedonia was the worst symptom, alongside head pressure, nausea and no appetite. Metformin brought insulin resistance near normal but they felt exactly the same as two months earlier, and 5 g of psilocybin, like every other medication or substance, had no effect.
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What they tried
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- shrooms · No change
I took 5 grams and it had literally zero effect.
In context ↗ - metformin · No change
Its almost close to normal now after taking metformin for 3 months, but I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME AS 2 MONTHS AGO
In context ↗ - Breathing excercises · No change
Breathing excercises DONT work for me ever
In context ↗ - the patch · No change
Shrooms alcohol and nicotine and every med have ZERO positive effect since this started
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Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, with time counted from when the illness began. Hover or tap a point. 1 step says too little to place on the scale and is only in the table. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
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| When | What happened | Where they were |
|---|---|---|
| onset | long COVID onsetits been been 6 months so far of anhedonia, 15% of my past energyIn context ↗ | Severe |
| 2024, about once a month | five few-hour stretches of feeling like their past selfI had 5 few hour long stretches completely at random where i felt way more like my past selfIn context ↗ | Not stated |
| September 2024 | the good stretches stoppedbut they stopped 2 months ago (they were like once a month thing anyway)In context ↗ | Severe |
| 2024-11-19 | constant symptoms, 15% of past energyYe mine is constant for months now. I had 5 few hour long stretchesIn context ↗ | Severe |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Anxiety & low mood
Anhedonia being gone would make me wanto to live despite the other stuff tho, its the worst one by far
In context ↗ - Breathlessness
At once. Breathing excercises DONT work for me ever
In context ↗ - Headaches & migraine
vonstant migraine but its like a weird pressure instead and only rarely the actual nornal migraine
In context ↗ - Gut problems
some days feeling on edge of vommiting the whole day but never managing to actually vommit, no hunger whatsoever
In context ↗ - Flu-like symptoms
feeling poisoned all the time
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