‘False Dawn’ Recovery Haunts Virus Survivors Who Fall Sick Again

Re:‘False Dawn’ Recovery Haunts Virus Survivors Who Fall Sic... by timmytokyo on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:16PM (#23056362)

I'm in the same boat. I've been having this on/off experience with difficulty breathing since the first week in March when I first experienced all the typical COVID-19 symptoms: mild fever, dry cough, fatigue, difficulty breathing. I was unable to get tested at the time, because it was early in the pandemic and testing was limited, so I was never officially told that I had it.

I seemed to recover a couple weeks later. But then I started having difficulty breathing again (without fever or cough this time). After another few days I'd start to feel better. Then I'd have a few days of difficulty breathing. I've been cycling between feeling okay and feeling bad ever since.

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Re:‘False Dawn’ Recovery Haunts Virus Survivors Who Fall Sic... by 20after4 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:00PM (#23056573)

You should consider taking vitamin D. It seems to be a factor in severity of cases according to [1]. You could be deficient in D if you haven’t spent much time out in the sunlight recently (likely for many of us, I suspect)

Vitamin D is essential, many people are deficient, and I don’t think there are many risks in taking a supplement.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v...

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