The Search for Long Covid

Two months ago I caught it, had two weeks of being reasonably sick, the last 10 days being a mean dry cough.

Then the shortness of breath began, and the night sweats with the inability to sleep. Also a lot of very deep seated anxiety/ fight or flight feelings.

The doctor said Dysautonomia was a very high risk and to avoid any real exercise, especially weight training. I started to feel better and caught a cold which brought back the cough.

I don't know what this all means, but it seems likely that: covid affected the nervous system, that it may have caused neurological damage, that it caused long term inflammation...and finally, I'm sorry, but three vaccine shots doesn't prevent this (surely didn't for me).

I've learned a lot these past months, and I'm meeting people regularly with dysautonomia symptoms after covid (dizziness, racing heart, shortness of breath). Some of them thought it was the vaccine. Nope, this can start months after infection.

After getting covid last month (not vaccinated), it took six weeks for my resting heart rate to return to normal. Usually it is 45-50 depending on how much exercise I do during the day. After covid it was hovering around 55 for a month then finally went back to normal. Didn’t have any other effects.

> So far there are no diagnostic findings that would allow you to even say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically.

As suggested in every previous study. Is there even a way to measure the impact of survivor's guilt or whether the inundation of messaging about CoViD could create Long Covid?