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#Long -COVID

This is my story. I want to educate, and I'm not looking for sympathy. Nobody is listening to the CDC, so maybe someone will listen to my story and rethink. I hope so.

I got Delta a few days before my age group was eligible for the jab.
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Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker
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The acute part wasn't bad - stomach upset, fever, fatigue, and total loss of taste and smell.

Shortly after, I got clots in my leg and lungs and ended up in hospital and mega doses of heparin. That was a long recovery. I also developed hypothyroidism.

Several symptoms stayed with me.
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The fatigue was horrible. My cognitive issues caused me to forget to pay bills, appointments, and even family birthdays! Sometimes, I don't even know what month it is.

Over time, it has improved a little.
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I have decent times that can last a few weeks, tho I have to be very careful with scheduled breaks or my heart rate flies up to the 140+ range, and I will pass out.
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Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker
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I also have flares where I have worsening memory, fatigue, low energy, loss of smell/taste, stomach upset, terrible nausea, more migraines, and zero appetite. During a flare, the memory test thing neuros do can score at stage 2 dementia.
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Since this has lasted so long and has a clear pattern, docs tell me I am unlikely to fully recover.

I had a full life with a good job. I was enrolled in a Masters program. I loved to cook and bake, and my house was clean.
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Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker
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I'm very lucky to have a day a month where I can clean or cook, but never both on the same day.

So, please, please, get your jab and mask. Every bout of COVID can cause long-COVID. You don't want to be me.

Feel free to share, esp with those who are not keen on the vax at the very least.
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SLS StickFigure
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People simply don't understand how quickly their health can spiral out of control. This false notion of invincibility is dangerous. For longer than a decade now I have been deemed disabled for similar reasons you have described. And it keeps progressing. Each season I lose more of former myself.
10:14 AM - Dec 24, 2023
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Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker
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It traumatic whether it's a slow thing or fast. When all this started I was lurking on the chronic fatigue support groups til we figured out it came from COVID.
11:03 AM - Dec 24, 2023
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SLS StickFigure
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In response to Melissa Griffith ☕ aka Masker.
No one can understand the fatigue thing unless they have experienced it themselves. It is immobilizing! Sometimes even psyching yourself up to just move forward and do what you want anyway isn't possible. And in my case, managing to do that makes me drop down a few rungs of the ladder afterwards.
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