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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.
If you didn't actually have Covid - you CANNOT have long-Covid. (and even if someone has it, it's not something you feel in the last 10 days - did you actually take a test?)
If you didn't actually have Covid - you CANNOT have long-Covid. (and even if someone has it, it's not something you feel in the last 10 days - did you actually take a test?)
Right. But you can get long Covid if you had Covid and were asymptomatic (didn't know it). So unless you are testing just for the hell of it all the time even though you have no symptoms, then how would you ever know you had Covid if you were infected but had no symptoms? I never tested because I never felt sick prior to this last 10 day time period and although I am coughing and wheezing a bit now, it doesn't feel like any sort of cold/flu or respiratory infection I've ever had. I can barely keep my eyes open no matter how much I sleep. I feel like I have been drugged - all the time - because I am so insanely tired.
I guess you didn't read the initial post very closely.
I read it. Ten days ago was the starting point of experiencing symptoms that are similar to covid.
Had the poster said: 20 days ago I started having covid symptoms. These most recent ten days I've started having XYZ happen.
Big difference.
A doctor check up is the way to go. Beyond that , none here can confirm .
I guess you didn't read the initial post very closely.
I did. While antibody testing for Covid-19 isn't 100% accurate for everyone, it's about the only way to know whether you had or now have the virus. Either doctor you end up seeing could do that for you. Debating it here is rather pointless.
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.
You could have COVID now and you need to be tested for it. Or you could have any number of other things but a cardiac eval is a good place to start. Myocarditis, whether from COVID or something else, can produce these symptoms.
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