Woman Shares Her “Terrifying” Symptoms Of Coronavirus That The CDC Doesn’t Talk About, Says No One Wants To Live Through This
The Center For Disease Control And Prevention reports 5 emergency warning signs for Coronavirus that indicate you should seek help immediately. They include trouble breathing, persistent pain (or pressure) in the chest, new confusion, inability to wake up (or stay awake), bluish lips (or face.) A wide range of Covid-19 symptoms involve cough, fever, headache, loss of taste and smell, and more.
Meanwhile, a young woman named Dani Oliver has been sick with “terrifying” coronavirus symptoms for over 3 months now. In a viral Twitter thread, Dani listed everything she has to go through on a daily basis. But the Brooklyn-based writer who “has been incapacitated for a season of her life” says she’s not unique.
According to Dani, “medical science doesn’t know what to do with the hundreds of thousands of COVID patients who don’t get better in the CDC guidelines of 2-6 weeks.” Thus, she urges everyone to wear masks because the suffering can last way longer than one would expect.
The Brooklyn-based writer shared what it’s like being sick with “terrifying” Covid-19 symptoms for over 3 months, and it went viral
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Infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic, William F. Marschall, warns that along with the common coronavirus symptoms like shortness of breath, muscle aches, chills, sore throat, and chest pain, there are others that you might not expect. They include gastrointestinal symptoms like a loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Other symptoms could be related to skin changes. “Younger people with less severe COVID-19 might develop painful, itchy lesions on their hands and feet that resemble chilblains, an inflammatory skin condition.” Elders and patients with severe infections can develop confusion.
Other unusual symptoms include eye problems such as “enlarged, red blood vessels, swollen eyelids, excessive watering, and increased discharge.”
Dani thanked everyone for reading and asked people to donate to Black Lives Matter
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People joined the thread, while others shared their own experiences of long-term suffering from Covid-19
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My cousin was asymptotic and didn't wear a mask to work. She gave it to her coworkers and two people died. One is in the hospital for 2 months now and another was put in a coma. The ones recovering are still sick it's been months. Personally I think she should go to prison. She did not quarantine for 14 days after finding out she'd been exposed bc she thinks people that do that are sheep. People are downright scary right now
Your cousin is an idiot and you are right, should be prosecuted. It is no different, in my opinion, to the HIV positive person who has sex unprotected and spreads it knowing they are positive. that is illegal, and this should be too.
Load More Replies...My step sister had Covid-19. She is a nurse and held the hand of a Covid patient as she was dying because family weren’t allowed in and believes that is how she contracted it. She said it was the worst she has ever felt in her life and she lives and extremely healthy lifestyle, eats healthy, exercises, has no underlying medical issues etc and she was off work and isolated for a little over a month. She said her body was in so much pain, breathing and coughing was horrible and was far more worse than any flu she has ever had.
And this is why non violent me gets the overwhelming urge to deck people who get in my bubble at the grocery store. If you're human, you breathe and you don't live in my house, I don't what you anywhere near me.
So naturally you wear a mask and carry hand sanitizer....right? RIGHT?
Load More Replies...OK, get ready to downvote me. .______THIS IS NOT UNKNOWN. We've known for some time that Covid19 attacks multiple systems, that patients who have serious cases do not recover quickly (as with any illness), and that we're still in the middle of the first global surge of a pandemic, so long-term morbidity (consequences) is not yet confirmed. What as her viral load? What was her degree of disease? What has she done for recovery? What (fill in long list of other factors)? Secondary infection(s)? ___DO NOT PANIC. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay safely out of big crowds if and when possible. And do not rely on someone on Twitter for your medical information. Not saying this woman didn't have a horrible experience. Seen Covid up close. it varies wildly. Studies are ongoing on a hundred fronts. Be safe, be calm. Please.
Especially stay out of big crowds if and when possible. We don't really need to go to the gym/cinema/disco right now. Many governments are acting as if everything is over BUT IT ISN'T.
Load More Replies...I'm so sorry you're going through this. As someone with chronic Lyme, you're absolutely right, the medical establishment ignores and minimizes the suffering associated with chronic conditions, especially for women. The only comfort I can offer is to validate that your suffering is real, and what you feel in your own body is a more important marker of your health that any official guideline.
Yes, those of us with chronic autoimmune issues can really relate. (And we are staying the F at home!) I have undiagnosed (after 14 years at this point)mystery autoimmune and I'm reasonably certain that Covid19 would kill me super fast, even though I take excellent care of myself. We need to acknowledge that there are many many mysteries in medicine and that NOBODY knows the depth of this awful virus. Stay safe and sound my friends!
Load More Replies...I must ask, are you American? Simply because everything you stated is well known all symptoms of Covid in Canada. There is long term permanent damage to lungs for those who get the worst of it. Stay safe, stay home as much as possible if you are in a bad zone for it,
@KT: I think it is pretty well known to those in the US who read legitimate news. Unfortunately, most people seem to get their "news" from FB, which keeps you in a bubble. Or, from their own little warped news outlet like Fox News. (I think FB should be banned from using algorithms to suggest "news" articles, and it should just be random posts.)
Load More Replies...I had it in March/April. But without the fever. The body aches and stomach pains are so intense. You can be sitting and all of a sudden the room starts spinning. There's the weight you lose so fast. Since May what's left is this tingling feeling from my head to my toes only on one side of my body and it's scary because you feel like you have no strength in that side. Doctors run so many test but can't find anything. I still get that feeling and it's scary. I also still get the random fogginess. Its like I see everything but can't understand or take in what's going on or what I'm reading or doing. My mom has been experiencing the same. So has a friend of mine who had this since November/December. The world needs to suspend politics for some time so we can actually focus on the right things and what's important
I had Covid in March too. I am lucky insomuch I don't have your extreme symptoms. I do have an eye infection that does not respond to anything. I also have a sore mouth and I can peel a layer of skin off just by licking my lips. Some days are better than others but today my eyes feel as though they are filled with grit and my mouth is so sore I cannot drink hot drinks and just moving my tongue along my gums it picks up enough skin that I can pick it out of my mouth and spread it over my finger.
I don't think your current symptoms are covid related, unless it's the stress that it put on your body. Go to the doctors and get checked out.
Load More Replies...Please, if you still have symptoms and issues months later, ask your docs for full infectious disease exams for secondary infections (fungal, bacterial, viral), and check for auto-immune responses that may be the body attacking itself b/c it hasn't calmed down from the virus yet. Please. And remember: DOCTORS WORK FOR YOU. You can fire them!
I have a summer cough currently and I get one almost every year. It scares me every time I cough because I think, “OMG is it something else!?!” What’s really messed up is people refusing and fighting about wearing masks and those same people are pro vaxxing. I don’t understand I really don’t
All of these symptoms sound so much like pneumonia but 20 times worse. People are laughing at me and giving me weird faces for wearing a mask when it's not mandatory anymore (lock-down in Czechia is already over). I don't care, I don't want to go through pneumonia-like disease again within the same year and I don't want anyone else to experience it as well. The worst part was when my mum's friend told me that she thinks the 'must wear a mask' thing was only a government move to make stuff more expensive (soaps, sanitisers, surgical masks, fabric...).
Is the CDC really "refusing" to talk about this, or is it because this is all very brand new and so we don't have all the data? This woman's experiences, by themselves, are anecdotal. Which does not mean they aren't real or they aren't experienced by others. It just means they haven't been scientifically compiled yet.
The CDC has been saying all along that they are learning more as they go. No one knew what to expect, but now since it's been around for at least half this year, scientists are gathering more data and discovering more issues.
Load More Replies...I think a lot of us have the feeling there are things known about this illness that are not being told. Thank you for letting us know your story. It is the best argument to wear a mask and stay home if possible I have heard.
I know someone that caught it way back in late February. Five months later, they still have symptoms of extreme fatigue and joint pain.
Hey, I'm sorry you are poorly, I hope one day you feel a bit more yourself, and get yourself all sorted. I needed to add though, all the symptoms you described, how you feel, brain fog etc. Is what a person with Fibromyalgia feels like 24/7, the only difference is that there may come a day when you won't have Covid-19, but we shall be burdened with Fibro till the day we die. Thank you for sharing, it's been fascinating xx
Due to childhood polio, pre-Salk Vaccine, I developed scoliosis of the thoracic spine with deformed chest cavity and lung volume loss, 3 years ago I got pneumonia, where they discovered that because of my limited lung capacity I have developed Cor Pulmonale, an enlargement of the heart, so I have an oxygen machine that I use, I have to saturate the blood with O2 for 16 hrs a day. At 78, you can imagine how careful I am here in my retirement village. I don't wear a mask when I'm alone, but out with other residents, socially distanced, I wear it. People who refuse to wear masks, need their minds read, even Donald Duck.
okay for one thing, why would the CDC lie to us if there are SO many other symptoms? and we've been in this for a while now, like precautions are being regulated into our society and nobody has said anything about checking for these symptoms, only fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. i don't think it's just COVID you've got if you're having diarrhea, rashes, nausea, fatigue AND more. that sounds like multiple illnesses and/or an allergic reaction. i'm not saying you might not have COVID, i'm just saying that i don't think it's all from COVID. i could be wrong, but SOMEWHERE this would be mentioned and they HAVE to tell you what COVID symptoms are for testing and public safety, unless these are uncommon and not researched enough. still though, i might get a lot of hate for this i know, i just don't find it completely believable. again, it's just my opinion based on all the things i've heard, i've never seen this mentioned anywhere before.
now this is just stating my opinion because i've NEVER heard any of this before and my mom updates us regularly (maybe too much..) on everything that's going on with COVID from news sites and health sites and other posts she's read. she's constantly talking about stuff like this and not once has she ever heard anything like this, she's on almost every social media site and is very involved in the media world so i thought maybe she'd find something. also, i haven't heard of this happening at all before myself or form anyone else. i could be completely wrong, but are you sure it isn't some version of COVID that comes with different side affects or maybe a coronavirus that causes some sort of side illness? i don't know, i'm just very confused and kind of skeptics because i've never heard of this before and i'm not sure if i should believe it or not
Load More Replies...Because the word "terrifying" was in quotes, I expected this to be some horrible joke post--quotation marks mean sarcasm or something exaggerated. If you want readers to take this from the headline as seriously as it really is, remove the quotation marks.
THIS. ALL THIS. I am on day 140, I think. Still super tired, coughing, cannot sleep on my back. The weird rashes here and there, too; I think that's when the virus is attacking that part of the skin. It's everywhere. Regarding the waking up in the middle of the night, gasping: I suggest sleeping on a recliner or some such. When you see photos of COVID-19 wards in hospitals, everyone is propped up so they aren't putting pressure on their backs/lower lungs, which are most damaged by infections. The problem is, while you're sleeping, you breathe most from lower lungs (using your diaphragm, not rib cage) plus your body is working extra hard to heal while you're asleep. So sleeping on your back is bad, especially at night. (I can get by with a daytime nap on my right side; left is too much for my heart. But at night, i end up on my back and wind up awake, gasping.) And for chest pain, by all that's holy, do not exert yourself in cold air (winter). OMG.
It's looking like there is going to be a lot of survivors with long term damage. I know from when my sister had sepsis that post-viral fatigue is very real and is very under reported and certainly understated, it's not just feeling 'a bit tired' We already know that people who suffer from pneumonia can have long term lung damage but COVID is yet worse again. The reports of neural damage are, at last, starting to gain traction in the medical community. I wouldn't be surprised if we also saw a large uptick in Fibromyalgia in the coming years too..
Meanwhile, imbeciles like Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky (R) suffered through coronavirus, immediately claimed it was a horrifying experience, but now he's all-in on reopening because he sides with Trump, not doctors or scientists, or people who are suffering or who have lost loved ones.
Body cam from Floyd's murder was played in court today in my home town. He said, "Y’all, I’m going to die in here,” he told them. “I just had COVID man, don’t want to go back to that," and “I just had COVID, man,” Floyd said. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Please one of you listen to me.” The man reported a pre-existing medical condition affecting his breathing, and even that didn't make them stop and think :-(
Waiting for antibody test results. Whatever I had in Mar/Apr was HORRID. I know flu A was rough this year, but this was extreme. Actually collapsing in exhaustion, crawling from bathroom to bed, all the Nyquil, all the sleep, who hit me with a sledgehammer pain. Oxygen is finally above 95%, but still coughing, gasping, and terrified. The waking up at night part, yeah. Just have to sit up and gasp for a few minutes. I've never felt so horrid, not fibro, not post surgery, or pre gall bladder removal! And no quick fix, you just have to ride it out.
Life After the Virus: Former Patients Speak Out https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4002793/ (Broadcast on June 27, 2020. Available until July 11, 2020)
I've had similar symptoms most of my adult life from adult onset asthma. Medications are incredibly better now. I used to get bronchitis and sinusitis twice a year for each. I'd be a s s dragging tired for 4-6 weeks with a sinus infection and as soon as I started feeling better, boom, bronchitis! 4-6 more weeks of misery. My ears, or worse, one ear would be stopped up with the sinusitis. Bronchitis brings on bronchial spasms that feel like large caterpillars are marching up and down your bronchial tube. Wash your hands, wear a mask, keep your distance, talk outside, quiet inside. This coronavirus isn't going to go away on its own. We're responsible for making it too hard to pass to other people.
Dude I don't even like life that much normally idk how motivated I would be to fight through being sick with covid in the hospital for 4+ months 😬 My heart goes out to everyone who is suffering right now and fighting for their lives.
Here's what I had that is on the list: - heart beat rate. Out of nowhere close to 200bpm. I can reach that kind of heart beat only playing squash with good partner. Or maybe playing paintball, when adrenaline makes you push it a lot more. It's not just speed of the pumps but power of them. I knew an attack is coming cause my heart, even though still fairly normal rate was starting to beat a lot more powerful. 2 TIMES IN MY 2.5 MONTH ADVENTURE MY HEART WOKE ME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. - chest pain. Very punctual, very precise like someone stabbed me with a screwdriver(s). More on the right side. - extreme fatigue. EXTREME. Once I had a sudden attack so severe that I could stay on my very comfortable computer chair. I knew I will collapse. Like someone left 1% of power in my muscles. I decide to quickly get up and lay on the couch behind me (literally 1.5m distance) Didn't make it. Put myself on the floor for a minute. Couldn't move. A lot of other symptoms....
What a bucket of b******t. This is nothing more than a hack adding to the fear mongering of the simpletons around the world, PROVEN by the plea to give to BLM. F**K BLM and every OTHER terrorist organization.
How about just not commenting? You need to learn what most people learned when they where 2: If you have nothing nice to say, DON'T SAY IT!
Load More Replies...Do you know how any major change has ever happened in the US? Womens sufferage? Protest. Civil Rights advancements? Protest. Gay equality and marriage? Protest. Police reform? Protest. You are happy to reap the benefits of protests (you can vote as a woman due to the long sufferage protests) but turn your nose up at those on the front line doing the gritty work . Your comment is "ridiculous", educate yourself.
Load More Replies...The point is, people don't feel the urge to wear masks when they hear about people who are symptom free.
Load More Replies...Terrorist? You all are really starting to go off the deep end. BLM has not murdered one soul, but a few members have been murdered by....anti-BLM people. But they are the "terrorists"? Dont be delusional.
Load More Replies...My cousin was asymptotic and didn't wear a mask to work. She gave it to her coworkers and two people died. One is in the hospital for 2 months now and another was put in a coma. The ones recovering are still sick it's been months. Personally I think she should go to prison. She did not quarantine for 14 days after finding out she'd been exposed bc she thinks people that do that are sheep. People are downright scary right now
Your cousin is an idiot and you are right, should be prosecuted. It is no different, in my opinion, to the HIV positive person who has sex unprotected and spreads it knowing they are positive. that is illegal, and this should be too.
Load More Replies...My step sister had Covid-19. She is a nurse and held the hand of a Covid patient as she was dying because family weren’t allowed in and believes that is how she contracted it. She said it was the worst she has ever felt in her life and she lives and extremely healthy lifestyle, eats healthy, exercises, has no underlying medical issues etc and she was off work and isolated for a little over a month. She said her body was in so much pain, breathing and coughing was horrible and was far more worse than any flu she has ever had.
And this is why non violent me gets the overwhelming urge to deck people who get in my bubble at the grocery store. If you're human, you breathe and you don't live in my house, I don't what you anywhere near me.
So naturally you wear a mask and carry hand sanitizer....right? RIGHT?
Load More Replies...OK, get ready to downvote me. .______THIS IS NOT UNKNOWN. We've known for some time that Covid19 attacks multiple systems, that patients who have serious cases do not recover quickly (as with any illness), and that we're still in the middle of the first global surge of a pandemic, so long-term morbidity (consequences) is not yet confirmed. What as her viral load? What was her degree of disease? What has she done for recovery? What (fill in long list of other factors)? Secondary infection(s)? ___DO NOT PANIC. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay safely out of big crowds if and when possible. And do not rely on someone on Twitter for your medical information. Not saying this woman didn't have a horrible experience. Seen Covid up close. it varies wildly. Studies are ongoing on a hundred fronts. Be safe, be calm. Please.
Especially stay out of big crowds if and when possible. We don't really need to go to the gym/cinema/disco right now. Many governments are acting as if everything is over BUT IT ISN'T.
Load More Replies...I'm so sorry you're going through this. As someone with chronic Lyme, you're absolutely right, the medical establishment ignores and minimizes the suffering associated with chronic conditions, especially for women. The only comfort I can offer is to validate that your suffering is real, and what you feel in your own body is a more important marker of your health that any official guideline.
Yes, those of us with chronic autoimmune issues can really relate. (And we are staying the F at home!) I have undiagnosed (after 14 years at this point)mystery autoimmune and I'm reasonably certain that Covid19 would kill me super fast, even though I take excellent care of myself. We need to acknowledge that there are many many mysteries in medicine and that NOBODY knows the depth of this awful virus. Stay safe and sound my friends!
Load More Replies...I must ask, are you American? Simply because everything you stated is well known all symptoms of Covid in Canada. There is long term permanent damage to lungs for those who get the worst of it. Stay safe, stay home as much as possible if you are in a bad zone for it,
@KT: I think it is pretty well known to those in the US who read legitimate news. Unfortunately, most people seem to get their "news" from FB, which keeps you in a bubble. Or, from their own little warped news outlet like Fox News. (I think FB should be banned from using algorithms to suggest "news" articles, and it should just be random posts.)
Load More Replies...I had it in March/April. But without the fever. The body aches and stomach pains are so intense. You can be sitting and all of a sudden the room starts spinning. There's the weight you lose so fast. Since May what's left is this tingling feeling from my head to my toes only on one side of my body and it's scary because you feel like you have no strength in that side. Doctors run so many test but can't find anything. I still get that feeling and it's scary. I also still get the random fogginess. Its like I see everything but can't understand or take in what's going on or what I'm reading or doing. My mom has been experiencing the same. So has a friend of mine who had this since November/December. The world needs to suspend politics for some time so we can actually focus on the right things and what's important
I had Covid in March too. I am lucky insomuch I don't have your extreme symptoms. I do have an eye infection that does not respond to anything. I also have a sore mouth and I can peel a layer of skin off just by licking my lips. Some days are better than others but today my eyes feel as though they are filled with grit and my mouth is so sore I cannot drink hot drinks and just moving my tongue along my gums it picks up enough skin that I can pick it out of my mouth and spread it over my finger.
I don't think your current symptoms are covid related, unless it's the stress that it put on your body. Go to the doctors and get checked out.
Load More Replies...Please, if you still have symptoms and issues months later, ask your docs for full infectious disease exams for secondary infections (fungal, bacterial, viral), and check for auto-immune responses that may be the body attacking itself b/c it hasn't calmed down from the virus yet. Please. And remember: DOCTORS WORK FOR YOU. You can fire them!
I have a summer cough currently and I get one almost every year. It scares me every time I cough because I think, “OMG is it something else!?!” What’s really messed up is people refusing and fighting about wearing masks and those same people are pro vaxxing. I don’t understand I really don’t
All of these symptoms sound so much like pneumonia but 20 times worse. People are laughing at me and giving me weird faces for wearing a mask when it's not mandatory anymore (lock-down in Czechia is already over). I don't care, I don't want to go through pneumonia-like disease again within the same year and I don't want anyone else to experience it as well. The worst part was when my mum's friend told me that she thinks the 'must wear a mask' thing was only a government move to make stuff more expensive (soaps, sanitisers, surgical masks, fabric...).
Is the CDC really "refusing" to talk about this, or is it because this is all very brand new and so we don't have all the data? This woman's experiences, by themselves, are anecdotal. Which does not mean they aren't real or they aren't experienced by others. It just means they haven't been scientifically compiled yet.
The CDC has been saying all along that they are learning more as they go. No one knew what to expect, but now since it's been around for at least half this year, scientists are gathering more data and discovering more issues.
Load More Replies...I think a lot of us have the feeling there are things known about this illness that are not being told. Thank you for letting us know your story. It is the best argument to wear a mask and stay home if possible I have heard.
I know someone that caught it way back in late February. Five months later, they still have symptoms of extreme fatigue and joint pain.
Hey, I'm sorry you are poorly, I hope one day you feel a bit more yourself, and get yourself all sorted. I needed to add though, all the symptoms you described, how you feel, brain fog etc. Is what a person with Fibromyalgia feels like 24/7, the only difference is that there may come a day when you won't have Covid-19, but we shall be burdened with Fibro till the day we die. Thank you for sharing, it's been fascinating xx
Due to childhood polio, pre-Salk Vaccine, I developed scoliosis of the thoracic spine with deformed chest cavity and lung volume loss, 3 years ago I got pneumonia, where they discovered that because of my limited lung capacity I have developed Cor Pulmonale, an enlargement of the heart, so I have an oxygen machine that I use, I have to saturate the blood with O2 for 16 hrs a day. At 78, you can imagine how careful I am here in my retirement village. I don't wear a mask when I'm alone, but out with other residents, socially distanced, I wear it. People who refuse to wear masks, need their minds read, even Donald Duck.
okay for one thing, why would the CDC lie to us if there are SO many other symptoms? and we've been in this for a while now, like precautions are being regulated into our society and nobody has said anything about checking for these symptoms, only fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. i don't think it's just COVID you've got if you're having diarrhea, rashes, nausea, fatigue AND more. that sounds like multiple illnesses and/or an allergic reaction. i'm not saying you might not have COVID, i'm just saying that i don't think it's all from COVID. i could be wrong, but SOMEWHERE this would be mentioned and they HAVE to tell you what COVID symptoms are for testing and public safety, unless these are uncommon and not researched enough. still though, i might get a lot of hate for this i know, i just don't find it completely believable. again, it's just my opinion based on all the things i've heard, i've never seen this mentioned anywhere before.
now this is just stating my opinion because i've NEVER heard any of this before and my mom updates us regularly (maybe too much..) on everything that's going on with COVID from news sites and health sites and other posts she's read. she's constantly talking about stuff like this and not once has she ever heard anything like this, she's on almost every social media site and is very involved in the media world so i thought maybe she'd find something. also, i haven't heard of this happening at all before myself or form anyone else. i could be completely wrong, but are you sure it isn't some version of COVID that comes with different side affects or maybe a coronavirus that causes some sort of side illness? i don't know, i'm just very confused and kind of skeptics because i've never heard of this before and i'm not sure if i should believe it or not
Load More Replies...Because the word "terrifying" was in quotes, I expected this to be some horrible joke post--quotation marks mean sarcasm or something exaggerated. If you want readers to take this from the headline as seriously as it really is, remove the quotation marks.
THIS. ALL THIS. I am on day 140, I think. Still super tired, coughing, cannot sleep on my back. The weird rashes here and there, too; I think that's when the virus is attacking that part of the skin. It's everywhere. Regarding the waking up in the middle of the night, gasping: I suggest sleeping on a recliner or some such. When you see photos of COVID-19 wards in hospitals, everyone is propped up so they aren't putting pressure on their backs/lower lungs, which are most damaged by infections. The problem is, while you're sleeping, you breathe most from lower lungs (using your diaphragm, not rib cage) plus your body is working extra hard to heal while you're asleep. So sleeping on your back is bad, especially at night. (I can get by with a daytime nap on my right side; left is too much for my heart. But at night, i end up on my back and wind up awake, gasping.) And for chest pain, by all that's holy, do not exert yourself in cold air (winter). OMG.
It's looking like there is going to be a lot of survivors with long term damage. I know from when my sister had sepsis that post-viral fatigue is very real and is very under reported and certainly understated, it's not just feeling 'a bit tired' We already know that people who suffer from pneumonia can have long term lung damage but COVID is yet worse again. The reports of neural damage are, at last, starting to gain traction in the medical community. I wouldn't be surprised if we also saw a large uptick in Fibromyalgia in the coming years too..
Meanwhile, imbeciles like Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky (R) suffered through coronavirus, immediately claimed it was a horrifying experience, but now he's all-in on reopening because he sides with Trump, not doctors or scientists, or people who are suffering or who have lost loved ones.
Body cam from Floyd's murder was played in court today in my home town. He said, "Y’all, I’m going to die in here,” he told them. “I just had COVID man, don’t want to go back to that," and “I just had COVID, man,” Floyd said. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. Please one of you listen to me.” The man reported a pre-existing medical condition affecting his breathing, and even that didn't make them stop and think :-(
Waiting for antibody test results. Whatever I had in Mar/Apr was HORRID. I know flu A was rough this year, but this was extreme. Actually collapsing in exhaustion, crawling from bathroom to bed, all the Nyquil, all the sleep, who hit me with a sledgehammer pain. Oxygen is finally above 95%, but still coughing, gasping, and terrified. The waking up at night part, yeah. Just have to sit up and gasp for a few minutes. I've never felt so horrid, not fibro, not post surgery, or pre gall bladder removal! And no quick fix, you just have to ride it out.
Life After the Virus: Former Patients Speak Out https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4002793/ (Broadcast on June 27, 2020. Available until July 11, 2020)
I've had similar symptoms most of my adult life from adult onset asthma. Medications are incredibly better now. I used to get bronchitis and sinusitis twice a year for each. I'd be a s s dragging tired for 4-6 weeks with a sinus infection and as soon as I started feeling better, boom, bronchitis! 4-6 more weeks of misery. My ears, or worse, one ear would be stopped up with the sinusitis. Bronchitis brings on bronchial spasms that feel like large caterpillars are marching up and down your bronchial tube. Wash your hands, wear a mask, keep your distance, talk outside, quiet inside. This coronavirus isn't going to go away on its own. We're responsible for making it too hard to pass to other people.
Dude I don't even like life that much normally idk how motivated I would be to fight through being sick with covid in the hospital for 4+ months 😬 My heart goes out to everyone who is suffering right now and fighting for their lives.
Here's what I had that is on the list: - heart beat rate. Out of nowhere close to 200bpm. I can reach that kind of heart beat only playing squash with good partner. Or maybe playing paintball, when adrenaline makes you push it a lot more. It's not just speed of the pumps but power of them. I knew an attack is coming cause my heart, even though still fairly normal rate was starting to beat a lot more powerful. 2 TIMES IN MY 2.5 MONTH ADVENTURE MY HEART WOKE ME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. - chest pain. Very punctual, very precise like someone stabbed me with a screwdriver(s). More on the right side. - extreme fatigue. EXTREME. Once I had a sudden attack so severe that I could stay on my very comfortable computer chair. I knew I will collapse. Like someone left 1% of power in my muscles. I decide to quickly get up and lay on the couch behind me (literally 1.5m distance) Didn't make it. Put myself on the floor for a minute. Couldn't move. A lot of other symptoms....
What a bucket of b******t. This is nothing more than a hack adding to the fear mongering of the simpletons around the world, PROVEN by the plea to give to BLM. F**K BLM and every OTHER terrorist organization.
How about just not commenting? You need to learn what most people learned when they where 2: If you have nothing nice to say, DON'T SAY IT!
Load More Replies...Do you know how any major change has ever happened in the US? Womens sufferage? Protest. Civil Rights advancements? Protest. Gay equality and marriage? Protest. Police reform? Protest. You are happy to reap the benefits of protests (you can vote as a woman due to the long sufferage protests) but turn your nose up at those on the front line doing the gritty work . Your comment is "ridiculous", educate yourself.
Load More Replies...The point is, people don't feel the urge to wear masks when they hear about people who are symptom free.
Load More Replies...Terrorist? You all are really starting to go off the deep end. BLM has not murdered one soul, but a few members have been murdered by....anti-BLM people. But they are the "terrorists"? Dont be delusional.
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