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After reading your description of your symptoms, I actually gasped with relief to see you've got a cardiology appointment for tomorrow. Everything you've described suggests a heart condition. I hope you get a solid diagnosis and some good news regarding treatment; that stuff's scary.
I'm curious; have you been vaxxed/boosted? And how old are you? (If those questions strike you as too nosy, you don't have to answer; I get it.)
I wish you well, and hope you get some relief soon. Take care.
For what it's worth, I had mild 'long COVID' this year. I felt like I got over the virus after 6 days, but for an additional 2 weeks, it felt like my batteries could only charge so much. I found myself taking 3 naps a day. It also felt like my appetite wasn't 100% for another 2 weeks. Additionally, I had a scratchy dry cough for an additional 4 weeks -- like there was some sort of scar tissue healing up in my lungs/bronchial tubes. That was strange because I never really had a cough from COVID. The Omicron variant generally does not affect the lungs.
About 10 days ago, I started to feel unusually tired. And for the past 10 days, that feeling has become worse and worse. Like - I mean exhausted in a way I have never experienced before. I've had chronic insomnia in the past, existed on no or very little sleep for days, and I have never come anywhere near feeling as absolutely totally unable to move from being so tired as I am now. I feel like I have 10 pound weights on both arms and legs. I get lightheaded and dizzy when I stand up, I am wheezing and out of breath from doing nothing, I have a headache that will not go away - and most troubling to me is that for these past 10 days and nights, 24 hours a day - my heart is just pounding like crazy - not fast just like it is huge or twice as powerful as it was before this started. I noticed it first when the chair, the bed, and things I was holding all were shaking with each heartbeat. I am so weak that I can barely move. But I never had a fever - still don't, and never had any respiratory infection since 2019. I am freaking out because I have never experienced anything like this. I didn't think that you could get long Covid if you didn't get Covid to begin-with, but maybe I did and just didn't have any symptoms of the initial infection. I would test now but from what I read, it wouldn't show up now anyway if it is long Covid. I am going to a cardiologist tomorrow but I have no idea what if anything he could or should do for me since I have no idea what is wrong. I had some chest pains about a week ago in the middle of the night and it is because I mentioned that to my primary care doctor that he sent to to this specialist tomorrow. Any ideas? I only just now thought of long Covid because there is an article on CNN today describing pretty much exactly my symptoms re: the extreme exhaustion.
Why do you think it could be long covid right off the bat? Maybe you just have covid. My wife got covid and was still feeling very tired and testing positive 10 days after her symptoms started.
Just an important clarification here which isn't reassuring. We know something is going on in some patients who have come down with "long COVID" because of the number of complaints. We just have not characterized the thing well enough to be able to diagnose who hasn't it or who doesn't have long COVID. There isn't any diagnostic criteria and I don't think that is coming soon. Some people have assumed its a form of chronic activation of the immune symptoms that match the symptoms of systemic cytokine activation. So going that route......
It sort of reminds me of Lyme disease and people testing antibodies and because they might be positive then the claim it's Lyme disease or if they get a positive EBV serology tests then they claim its EBV.
There have been cases of COVID that have resulted in reactivation of latent infections of EBV. We can tell the difference between primary infection and latent reactivation. The immune system is screwed up with COVID that results from reduced numbers of lymphocytes during infection which is common and that can cause dyregulation of the immune system.
It's important to rule out common known diseases and conditions before we go into the realm of the new virus mainly because with old conditions we have a knowledge base to work with. When it comes to COVID we are just now getting started and we don't know what to do about it. No good treatments for things we don't know. I personally would be reluctant to accept a diagnosis of long COVID in your case with your history. Its basically saying don't bother me because we don't know how to deal with it. You do that only when all other causes have been exhaustedly searched for.
Along a similar line of thought. About 10 years ago I had similar issues. I had also lost 15 pounds but there was no medical reason that the weight dropped.
I'd read an article about Epstein Barr, I asked my GP to test to see if I had it because as a teen in the late 70's and early 80's, I suffered with tonsil issues. I wondered if I had also had mono. Imagine my GP's surprise when I was tested, came back positive for mono at almost 50 years old. She said I was recently infected.
I do think the OP should also get a COVID PCR test to be sure they don't have COVID.
OP, did you get the vaccine? I believe "long Covid" doesn't actually have to do with Covid at all. I believe it's a reaction to the vaccine. They just call it long Covid to CYA.
OP, did you get the vaccine? I believe "long Covid" doesn't actually have to do with Covid at all. I believe it's a reaction to the vaccine. They just call it long Covid to CYA.
Didn't say I had a source. I specifically said it was my belief. This is an opinion forum, and that is what I provided.
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