Long COVID symptoms for a couple of months, improved after steroids, then relapsed
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 2 months
- Last post
- Jun 2023
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
I first started feeling covid symptoms, I was sick for a couple months
In context ↗ - Now: Relapsed
all my symptoms cleared up and I was back to normal fully recovered, one month later I woke up and all my symptoms was back
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
when I first started feeling covid symptoms
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Summary
They became ill with covid symptoms and were sick for a couple of months. A six-day steroid pack from their doctor cleared all symptoms a couple of days after they finished it, and they reported being back to normal and fully recovered. About a month later they woke with all their symptoms back; nothing further about their state is described.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- 6 day steroid pack · Helped a lot
I was sick for a couple months then my doctor gave me a 6 day steroid pack ... all my symptoms cleared up and I was back to normal fully recovered
In context ↗
Approaches: Other drugs and medicines
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| onset | started feeling covid symptomswhen I first started feeling covid symptoms, I was sick for a couple monthsIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| a couple days after finishing the 6 day steroid pack | symptoms cleared, back to normala couple days after I finish taking the medicine all my symptoms cleared up and I was back to normal fully recoveredIn context ↗ | Recovered | Corticosteroid pulses |
| one month later | symptoms returnedone month later I woke up and all my symptoms was backIn context ↗ | Not stated |
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