Long COVID
Moderate → no benefitIll for 4 years
Long COVID fatigue and brain fog; magnesium taurate cleared palpitations, no improvement
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Moderate (mostly housebound)
- Ill for
- 4 years
- Last post
- Mar 2026
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I've had LC from the end of June with extreme fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.
In context ↗ - At worst: Moderate
can't walk very far, have to rest a lot, can't think/do a lot but at least can move about and function a bit
In context ↗ - Now: No benefit
The LC is all the time with no improvement.
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
I had covid back in June, struggled with LC symptoms very similar to yours
Read from 6 of their posts and comments; links to the 5 this page draws on
Summary
Puffin 70101 fell ill with long COVID at the end of June 2022, with extreme fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness and heart palpitations, and was off work from that December. A November 2022 reinfection set them back, and although magnesium taurate cleared the palpitations within four days in January 2023, the fatigue stayed. More than two years in, they reported no improvement and called Nurosym a waste of time and money.
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What they tried
Their words about each treatment
- wim hoff · No change
Over the autumn I tried things like wim hoff, probiotics etc before I started looking at LC specific groups online.
In context ↗ - magnesium taurate · Helped
The magnesium taurate is the only thing that has had any positive effect so far.
In context ↗ - Nurosym · No change
Nurosym. Total waste of time and money.
In context ↗
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. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
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| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | long COVID onset after COVID-19I've had LC from the end of June with extreme fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and heart palpitationsIn context ↗ | Mild | |
| October 2022 | brain fog cleared, other symptoms continuedThe brain fog subsided by October but the other symptoms continuedIn context ↗ | Mild | |
| November 2022 | A&E with racing heart and breathlessness, then COVID reinfection; repeated crashes and long sick leavewent back after a couple of weeks, crashed, went back, then just before Christmas decided I needed to take a long period off to get rightIn context ↗ | Moderate | |
| February 2023 | palpitations stopped on magnesium taurate, extreme fatigue remainedAfter four days my palpitations disappeared and haven't returned ... Still have extreme fatigueIn context ↗ | Moderate | Magnesium |
| November 2024 | no improvement, still limited and resting a lotOver two years into long COVID and it's similar to the recovery from a round of chemo ... The LC is all the time with no improvementIn context ↗ | Moderate |
Adverse events
- “3 days of the chemicals then a week in bed unable to move/think and just stumbling to the bathroom to dry retch every half hour.” In context ↗ Side effects
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Post-exertional malaise
I've been on and off work all autumn, kept going back then crashing again
In context ↗ - Brain fog
The brain fog subsided by October
In context ↗ - Breathlessness
shortness of breath and heart palpitations
In context ↗ - Heart symptoms & palpitations
The only thing that helps with my heart arrhythmia/palpitations.
In context ↗