Long COVID with brain fog, still ill but somewhat better with fasting and ice baths
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill before improving or writing
- 2.5 years
- Last post
- Aug 2022
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I developed my first symptoms months before the vaccine became available and after I had very mild Covid
In context ↗ - At worst: Severe
Then I lay down in bed and wouldn't eat, would hardly speak even, for about five or six weeks.
In context ↗ - Now: Somewhat better
I have seen my condition improve. Mental function is coming back, less brain fog, fewer spells of falling and weakness
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
I developed my first symptoms months before the vaccine became available and after I had very mild Covid, with a low fever, diarrhea, a sniffle and sore throat.
In context ↗
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Summary
They fell ill with long COVID after a mild infection, with brain fog, headaches, joint pain, tinnitus, hearing loss and months of anxiety and terror. A train trip across Texas left them much worse, with rheumatoid arthritis and memory loss. Arthritis pills relieved the joint pain and propranolol ended the terror; fasting and ice baths brought some improvement. Two and a half years on they were still ill and undiagnosed.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- dawn to dusk fasting · Helped
fasting after my morning biscotti and espresso until sunset every day
In context ↗ - ice baths · Helped
Taking ice baths and dawn to dusk fasting seems to help slightly.
In context ↗ - propranolol · Helped a lot
I asked my psychiatrist for it. It works immediately and is very effective.
In context ↗ - multivitamin · Helped
Lately I started to take a multivitamin and have seen the numb hands thing decrease
In context ↗
Approaches: Alternative therapies · Diet
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. The chart starts 15 months after onset: the story doesn’t say how ill they were before that. 1 step has no time and sits in story order between the steps around it. 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 | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| onset | long COVID began after a mild COVID infection, before vaccines existedI developed my first symptoms months before the vaccine became available and after I had very mild Covid, with a low fever, diarrhea, a sniffle and sore throat.In context ↗ | Not stated | |
| 2021 | much worse after a train trip across Texas; agonising arthritis and memory impairmentmy condition worsened substantially after a train trip across Texas when suddenly a lot of people getting on were coughing a lot.In context ↗ | Moderate | |
| early 2022 | five or six weeks in bed, barely eating or speaking, after arthritis and worsening symptomsThen I lay down in bed and wouldn't eat, would hardly speak even, for about five or six weeks.In context ↗ | Severe | |
| 2022 | arthritis medication made the hand and joint pain 95-100% gonethe pills make it feel 95-100% goneIn context ↗ | Moderate | |
| mid-2022 | propranolol ended months of anxiety and terror; fear still gone three months laterMy psychiatrist prescribed it to me for the anxiety and it alleviated it. After that, the terror went away and she took me off of it.In context ↗ | Moderate | Propranolol (Inderal) |
| August 2022 | some improvement with fasting, ice baths and masking; still ill and undiagnosed after two and a half yearsI have seen my condition improve. Mental function is coming back, less brain fog, fewer spells of falling and weaknessIn context ↗ | Moderate | Intermittent fasting |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Headaches & migraine
I've seen the headaches, joint pain, fatigue and brain fog come back for the last week
In context ↗ - Pain & fibromyalgia
Agonizing arthritis and more neurological damage with memory impairment.
In context ↗ - Tinnitus
including tinnitus in one ear with some hearing loss
In context ↗ - Anxiety & low mood
I had increasing anxiety and terror for about five months. Then it stopped.
In context ↗ - Muscle weakness
fewer spells of falling and weakness
In context ↗ - Neuropathy & tingling
have seen the numb hands thing decrease
In context ↗ - POTS & dysautonomia
I have all the symptoms of some sort of autoimmune disorder that causes autonomic neuropathy
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