The COVID-19 Blues

zackster

More of your famous dry Canadian whit! Love it! 🤣

303abuser

zackster Calm down before I start a thread about the war of 1812 and invite hugo to voice his opinion.

IndustryStandard

So I finally caught it. I never caught it sans vaccine after months of flying back and forth from NY/LDN during the glory days of Covid. Been out to bars, clubs etc etc and not a whiff.

Then go to Devon to meet some old Uni mates who are hardcore anti vaccers and, surprise surprise, I catch it. Reckon it also has a lot to do with me working 14 hrs a day for the last 2 months and being generally run down and stressed out.

I never get colds and this is pretty shitty. Felt rough for about a week now. Can see how it fucks your lungs up given the crap im coughing up

Be careful out there people…..its still around and certainly hit me harder than any cold/flu ive had

SM001

IndustryStandard Get well soon!

zackster

IndustryStandard Hang tuff mate. Sounds like ur over the hump 🤞🏼

ScottBailey

IndustryStandard Rough gig! Get well soon.

NasserAlazzawi

IndustryStandard it also has a lot to do with me working 14 hrs a day for the last 2 months and being generally run down and stressed out.

You’re probably right here.

This is purely spitballing but based on some logic - everyone I know with long covid:

A) Had a stressful lifestyle (work, kids, other urgent demands)
B) Didn’t stop for Covid

So make sure you (and anyone reading this with Covid) does actually rest and do restful things. If anyone is loading stress onto you tell them to back off (easier said than done with kids!)

It takes about a week or 10 days to get past the worst, but I noticed it took me and others about a month to get back at it - if you’re an avid runner, or into intense workouts, just stick with walking/jogging outside once it has passed for a few weeks to get your strength back and avoid pushing yourself at all.

Having seen what a wrecking ball long-covid is in 5 different instances (pre and post vaccine) my main concern is helping me/as many of my friends avoid it as possible, as catching Covid itself is inevitable.

Morty-C-137

IndustryStandard Get well soon man! Sounds like you have a rough few months already.

303abuser

IndustryStandard Hope you’re feeling better soon.

ScottBailey

NasserAlazzawi This is purely spitballing but based on some logic - everyone I know with long covid:

A) Had a stressful lifestyle (work, kids, other urgent demands)
B) Didn’t stop for Covid

Don’t think he talking about long Covid, and I’m not sure I prescribe to that theory either. There’s plenty of us who fit the above profile who haven’t suffered from long Covid. Think it’s more likely that the people who are suffering from it had something underlying that made it more likely.

IndustryStandard

Cheers everyone. Taking it very easy work wise now as, to be totally frank, companies play great lip service but really want you just to carry on like a martyr.

NasserAlazzawi

ScottBailey just a pattern i’m noticing. I don’t know anyone with long covid who managed to get time off to relax. Everyone with it was stressed to fuck - and stress does things that many of us don’t even acknowledge, before you add covid into the mix.

zackster

I think we should take a moment to acknowledge what a barn burner of a thread @loopdokter has put together here. Savvy posting from a wily vet.

loopdokter

zackster I think we should take a moment to acknowledge what a barn burner of a thread @loopdokter has put together here. Savvy posting from a wily vet.

Smallman1

For those with Covid, don’t forget to take this, you’ll be back in business in no time -

NasserAlazzawi

Smallman1 that and and a bump of horse and you’ll be fucking banging.

ScottBailey

NasserAlazzawi know what you mean mate. But plenty of us with stressful, hectic lifestyles who have bounced back pretty quickly each time. I was still at work the 3rd time I had Covid!

zackster

My father in law lives a low stress life of luxury and is still feeling the effect of COVID nearly 2 years later.

NasserAlazzawi

zackster sorry to hear that mate.

reckon he’s suffering what they class as long covid or is it something else that has sustained from the illness? (I think long covid has a typical list of ailments - the biggest being constant brain fog and constant fatigue)

zackster

NasserAlazzawi yep, brain fog is the one. Takes him a few to come up with names and sports facts that he would have had instantly before catching it. Is 66 years old and in otherwise great shape. He is participating in a study at Columbia specifically about COVID’s effects on the brain. Could absolutely be worse, but hearing him talk about how it has impacted him really spooked me and lead to my becoming a recluse for as long as I did.

loopdokter

zackster yep, brain fog is the one. Takes him a few to come up with names and sports facts that he would have had instantly before catching it. Is 66 years old and in otherwise great shape. He is participating in a study at Columbia specifically about COVID’s effects on the brain. Could absolutely be worse, but hearing him talk about how it has impacted him really spooked me and lead to my becoming a recluse for as long as I did.

My sister and brother-in-law caught it roughly around the same time and had Long COVID for at least a year. They felt really lethargic, their sense of taste and smell was all fucked and some days they were rendered pretty much useless. It doesn’t seem to be as bad two years on since getting it, but things they used to love in the way of food really set off their senses and they grew to hate it.

Another mate of mine in the UK got Long COVID so bad that she couldn’t walk and had to use a wheelchair, then a walker and is still dealing with the effects two years on. I see her post on her Instagram stories and she’s a shell of the fit early 30s woman she once was. It’s bonkers.

It’s a virus unlike any other. If you had it yet, count yourself blessed. It really and truly kicked my arse when I had it. I’m pretty sure I got again with one of the more mild variants, but fortunately my immune system fights like a drunken Scotsman a la Begby taking on a whole pub.

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