Re:NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
by thowaway959125 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:28PM
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In September of last year I was experiencing a combination of symptoms that I did not link to COVID, but looking back on it I'm starting to question it.
First, I had debilitating brain fog. It felt link I was thinking through pea soup. I went to my doctor twice due to this symptom, but my blood work (CBC, not a COVID test) looked normal and he suggested this was due to "stress" or "changes in sleep", although I was not experiencing either of those.
Around this same time, I would experiencing "near-syncope" upon standing. It got to the point where I everything was fading to black and I would have to take a knee to maintain consciousness. Again I talked to my doctor he shrugged his shoulders. He said my blood pressure was normal but he referred me to a cardiologist.
I passed a stress EKG so they said there was nothing structurally wrong with my heart.
Fast forward a few months and the symptoms have abated, although they still persist in a diminished form.
This makes me really wonder if this was COVID due to autonomic nerve dysfunction.
First, I had debilitating brain fog. It felt link I was thinking through pea soup. I went to my doctor twice due to this symptom, but my blood work (CBC, not a COVID test) looked normal and he suggested this was due to "stress" or "changes in sleep", although I was not experiencing either of those.
Around this same time, I would experiencing "near-syncope" upon standing. It got to the point where I everything was fading to black and I would have to take a knee to maintain consciousness. Again I talked to my doctor he shrugged his shoulders. He said my blood pressure was normal but he referred me to a cardiologist.
I passed a stress EKG so they said there was nothing structurally wrong with my heart.
Fast forward a few months and the symptoms have abated, although they still persist in a diminished form.
This makes me really wonder if this was COVID due to autonomic nerve dysfunction.
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