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It sure does. Mines a bit unique afaik though.
I was diagnosed with a swollen optic nerve a few weeks after getting Covid when I realized my vision was going dark in one of my eyes.
They did an mri to rule out any other causes and concluded it was from Covid.
Over then next few months the swelling of the nerve went away but the bottom 1/4 of my vision in that eye is still dark due to the nerve being damaged from it.
Theres been a number of other documented cases of this happening from Covid.
Wow, I'm really sorry that happened to you. I hope you can reasonably expect now that it won't get worse, at least?
Yep! As long as I don’t get Covid again?
It happened over a year ago and my doctor says there’s been no change, and to not expect it to get better either.
Sorry to hear that. Does it frustrate you when you hear people dismissing COVID like it's a normal cold or similar to the flu?
Absolutely. I heard it non-stop from my dad and my in laws. Listening to them act like it’s nothing even after it gave me partial vision loss drove me crazy.
Not only does my dad think it’s ’like the flu’, he keeps saying it IS ‘just the flu’. He thinks it’s the same virus and people are conspiring to control us by giving the flu a new name and then freaking out over it.
Even the flu is extremely dangerous from some people.
The pandemic certainly was an eye opener for me on how warped and selfish a lot of people are, perhaps the human race as a whole to some degree.
And the logic people apply to support odd ideas. The lengths people go to just so they won't admit they were wrong.
I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. I saw so many deaths and suffering due to this disease through records in the VA health system and it constantly enraged me. I can only imagine what it would do to someone impacted by it directly.
In my slightly covid unrelated case, intracranial tension changes cause very subtle sharpness/clearness vision changes. So look out for these things, there might be more problems associated with it! Like IIH, CSF leaks or venous stenosis. It can cause a wide variety of seemingly random neurological pressure changes. Beware of substances affecting it like caffeine, weed, fat-soluble thiamine and Lithium. These can reduce or induce serious problems especially if the intracranial pressure is unstable. And while these might possibly be useful, be aware it is poorly understood overall and can cause damage.
I've been having random chest pain from anxiety for about 15 years.
Welcome to the club that no one wants to be in!
Oh the best thing is when you have GERD and it mimics anxiety symptoms and then you have an anxiety attack because of it.
We Long Covid sufferers really need to put more info like this out in public. Cheers, OP. Wish I could upvote more than once.
I know the chest pain well. POTS is still an issue for me as well.
I'm not 100% sure it's a Long COVID symptom, but ever since I had COVID a few months ago, I've been waking up in the middle of the night with a coughing fit. Not every night, but a lot of nights. It doesn't last that long and I'm able to go back to sleep, so it's not all that debilitating, but I'm pretty sure it's because of COVID.
The lungs generally take the longest to get better. They're constantly flexing without stop, so it's a slower process to repair.
I'm saying this from experience as someone who has asthma, allergies, and had a cold or bronchitis an average of once every four months or so growing up. It can easily take several months for a general cough to go away.
Don't take any of this as medical advice, but if it's not getting better (or if it gets worse), you should go get it checked out.
I might have the same, but I'm not sure if it's only due to dry air. I'm currently monitoring and logging the humidity, and then might buy an air humidifier.
I also have more headaches, not sure if that's because of getting older (I didn't even have headaches when hungover when I was younger xD).
One way to get humidity is to wear a mask. An N95 isn't necessary, you want to be getting plenty of oxygen in your sleep, but a loose-fitting mask will still hold the moisture and warmth from your exhales. And will stay in place better than just burying your head in the blankets.
I have something similar, and something I noticed was if the air I was breathing was a little cold it made it worse, and a space heater made it better, as well as making sure my back/shoulders were fully covered in a blanket to keep the area around my lungs warm. I'm not sure how humidity affects it but maybe changing that could help too.
I feel like there is a hand gripping my heart with the thumb pushing harder in to its flesh. And i had a very mild case of covid a year ago.