Long COVID with brain fog and chest pain, now almost back to normal with time and pacing
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill before improving or writing
- 2 years
- Last post
- Mar 2025
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
Long hauler since January of 2022, while considering myself 99% recovered during the middle/late parts of this year.
In context ↗ - At worst: Moderate
Initially just did the bare minimum, which was go to school full-time and work around 28-32 hours.. aside from that, I was at home, mostly in my bed
In context ↗ - Now: Near normal
I feel as if I’m 99% recovered after long hauling in January of 2022 ... it has lifted to a point where I don’t necessarily notice it and I can go out and live my life
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
I originally had COVID the first time in August of 21’
Read from 66 of their posts and comments; links to the 18 this page draws on
Summary
A 25-year-old man developed long COVID in January 2022 with chest pain, brain fog, anxiety, heart-rate spikes and joint pain. He kept working and studying while mostly resting at home and improved gradually over about two and a half years, crediting time and pacing; overdoing gym work twice set him back months. By August 2024 he felt 99% recovered, with light brain fog left, and after a November 2024 reinfection was back at baseline by early 2025.
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What they tried
What they credit
Also tried
Their words about each treatment
- therapy · Helped
Therapy has also helped a lot.
In context ↗ - pacing myself · Helped
am working with my therapist on learning to pace myself and take things slowly
In context ↗ - going to the gym · Worse
I definitely pushed too hard too soon again and got set back
In context ↗ - caffeine · Not said
Took a year off caffeine initially, then slowly started drinking it again, along with increasing dosagw over time.
In context ↗ - fish oil · Not said
the only thing I took was fish oil and a multivitamin
In context ↗ - time · Helped a lot
Not a sexy answer, but time
In context ↗ - COVID vaccination as treatment · Not said
Did not have a reaction to the first shot, but passed out about 5 minutes after receiving the second one.
In context ↗
Approaches: Pacing
Their path
What they say at each step doesn’t fit the worst point or outcome above on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | After |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-07 | Long COVID onsetonset of symptoms on 1/7/22 with chest pains, brain fog, anxiety attacks, random HR spikesIn context ↗ | |
| March/April 2022 | symptoms eased considerablysymptoms resolved quite a bit, no chest pains and brain fog was lightIn context ↗ | Time and spontaneous remission |
| May 2022 | crashed after returning to pre-illness gym intensitywoke up one day feeling like I got hit by a truck. Brain fog came back even worseIn context ↗ | |
| September 2022 | most symptoms eased with timeA lot of my symptoms went away for the most partIn context ↗ | Time and spontaneous remission |
| November 2022 | COVID reinfectionmy symptoms came roaring back for about a month or soIn context ↗ | |
| 2023-06-28 | most symptoms resolved except brain fogI would say 90-95% of my symptoms have gone away, but brain fog is definitely the most persistentIn context ↗ | Time and spontaneous remission |
| 2023-07-12 | overdid gym work againI tend to overdo it a little after several weeks of feeling 95+% back to normal. Goin through a lil rough patch the past few weeksIn context ↗ | |
| 2024-08-27 | felt 99% recoveredI feel as if I’m 99% recovered after long hauling in January of 2022In context ↗ | Time and spontaneous remission |
| 2024-11-25 | third COVID infectionmy finance and I tested positive todayIn context ↗ | |
| 2025-02-01 | back to pre-reinfection baselinePretty much back to my pre-infection baseline as of a week or two agoIn context ↗ | Time and spontaneous remission |
Adverse events
- COVID vaccination as treatment“Did not have a reaction to the first shot, but passed out about 5 minutes after receiving the second one.” In context ↗ Low blood pressure or fainting
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Brain fog
brain fog is definitely the most persistent
In context ↗ - Anxiety & low mood
anxiety attacks
In context ↗ - Heart symptoms & palpitations
Still have palpitations, mostly when under the influence of an edible
In context ↗ - Pain & fibromyalgia
Yea had muscle/joint pain, tingling in hands/feet/head. Eventually went away
In context ↗ - Neuropathy & tingling
tingling in head comes back from time to time
In context ↗ - Headaches & migraine
headaches that would come and go
In context ↗ - POTS & dysautonomia
I used to not be able to go up stairs without my hr getting up towards 150
In context ↗ - Sleep problems
I did have unrefreshing sleep up until about 6 months ago
In context ↗ - Post-exertional malaise
I overdo it at the gym and kinda slip back into the funk for a few weeks
In context ↗
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