Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
-Love,
An American
I’m not so worried about 2 weeks of coughing as I am the possibility of a lifetime of unknown debilitating factors. I don’t worry about dying in the short term but I might end up with permeant shortness of breath or a compromised immune system or who knows what. The long term effects of COVID aren’t understood and that honestly scares me more than anything
My feelings too. Long term cognitive and cardiovascular effects got me spooked
Yeah, this is 100% true, and it was also my fear once I got the positive test result. I exercise every single day, eat healthy, and I vape, which is arguably less worse for your lungs than smoking, so I felt relatively safe.
Nonetheless, like I said in the other comment, the two weeks of symptoms + dexamethasone were horrible. I didn’t need ventilation or anything, it was a moderate case. Even so, a month later, I can still only do half as many pushups and pullups as I did before, I’m still weak even though I’ve made a full recovery. I also occasionally get some weird headaches, like the one I have right now.
There’s also a strong inflammation aspect to it, which is what I think makes your body feel sore. I remember that I went for a walk in a local park the day after my quarantine was officially over, felt good while I was there, but spent the next two days in agony because everything from my waist down was just pain, like I’d climbed a goddamn mountain with a backpack full of rocks. I went to the doctor because I was afraid I had thrombosis or something like that, and he gave me some opioids for the pain. In my country, opioids are absolutely not commonly prescribed at all, so I guess I wasn’t the first person in severe post-covid pain.
But, all in all, I’m okay now. I hope that, if anyone here gets it, they have milder symptoms than I did. Stay safe, comrade!
