I was dwelling with my brother and his roommate, and so they each acquired COVID, too. Over a couple of weeks, I watched them get better, and I realized the identical wasn’t occurring for me. My signs have been getting barely higher, however a couple of weeks in, my progress plateaued. Once I hit weeks 4, 5, and even six, I realized I wasn’t feeling any sort of enchancment.
I was nonetheless experiencing hassle respiration—even when I simply needed to stroll up the steps, it was actually laborious to catch my breath. If I did any sort of bodily exercise, my coronary heart fee was 20 to 30 beats per minute increased than it had been earlier than getting sick. I felt like I would get coronary heart palpitations actually simply. But probably the most overwhelming symptom was the acute exhaustion—it acquired to the purpose I was actually having hassle shifting by way of nearly any every day job.
Mere months earlier than, I was exercising intensely virtually each single day. Then, the entire sudden, none of that was potential.
I finally reached out to medical practitioners to see what they might do. Fortunately, the medical docs I was seeing have been understanding of my expertise, and so they by no means doubted what I was going by way of. However, the understanding of post-COVID signs was fairly restricted, particularly so early within the pandemic. They did every kind of scans to test for organ harm, and just about each take a look at possible to take a look at my lounge and coronary heart. But they by no means discovered something out of the extraordinary. At the time, they have been actually enjoying a trial-and-error sport to determine what was making my lingering signs.
Periodically, I would return to the docs to see if that they had any extra perception or experience on the subject, primarily based on what they have been seeing with different sufferers. I ended up taking antibiotics, prednisone, a pair completely different inhalers—and people have been only a few of the completely different remedy choices docs tried. However, none of them actually made an influence on my signs.