Bring It On!
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 1.75 years
- Published
- Dec 2021
Summary
Helen manages her long COVID with about 8 unnamed tablets each morning plus more through the day, along with increased fluid and salt intake, supine exercises, and heart rate monitoring for POTS — no specific drug names or doses are given. She had a mild acute COVID infection in March 2020 and, as of her December 2021 post, had not had a symptom-free day since, unable to work at full capacity since July 2020. She suffered a major relapse after her second vaccine dose in February/March 2021 that kept her off work for 6 months, and after a POTS diagnosis in July 2021 and adopting pacing she saw partial improvement, only to have another setback from a booster shot; by 8 weeks post-booster she was "nearly" but not quite back to her pre-booster level. No complete recovery is described — she frames her status as ongoing management rather than resolution.
What they credit
Credits Craniocervical surgery, POTS medication, Pacing, Vaccination, Pacing and the energy envelope, Salt, fluids and compression.
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