The Covid Experience

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74OA
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11:49a, 6/6/20
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As this question will make obvious, I'm not a doctor or a scientist, and I find myself continually astonished at the wide variance in patient experience for those infected by the virus.

Is the ever-expanding range of symptoms and varying intensity/duration typical of the medical learning curve with any new pathogen or is COVID-19's variability something different?

For example: Longterm
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12:21p, 6/6/20
Early on, all my friends in public health said the virus isn't "behaving the way it's supposed to," that is do say following a predictable pattern like the flu.

That said (knock wood) I've heard of other viral ailments that come and go and come and go and then finally go away. That was my experience with shingles: oh it's getting better! Few days later, new rashes. Gone after two months. So maybe this one just takes an unpleasantly long time to burn out?
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1:49p, 6/6/20
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Others are likely having problems with their sympathetic nervous system, which controls unconscious processes like heartbeats and breathing: They'll be out of breath even when their oxygen level is normal, or experience what feel like heart attacks even though EKG readings and chest X-rays are clear. These symptoms wax, wane, and warp over time. "It really is a grab bag," said Davis, who is a co-author of the Body Politic survey. "Every day you wake up and you might have a different symptom."
This part hits a little too close for comfort. I've been dealing with weird dizzy spells and breathing issues for a couple weeks now, like having to consciously think about inhaling/exhaling that just comes and goes in waves with no real rhyme or reason. Same story with noticeably strange heartbeat "feelings" a few weeks back that have since mostly gone away. Otherwise I feel like a relatively normal 32 y/o.

I'm trying to not don a tin foil hat and tie these things back to a bout of flu I had the last week of February as I assume these just come with the territory of getting a little older, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a nagging thought...
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In reply to Fitch • 7:09p, 6/6/20
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Fitch said:
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Others are likely having problems with their sympathetic nervous system, which controls unconscious processes like heartbeats and breathing: They'll be out of breath even when their oxygen level is normal, or experience what feel like heart attacks even though EKG readings and chest X-rays are clear. These symptoms wax, wane, and warp over time. "It really is a grab bag," said Davis, who is a co-author of the Body Politic survey. "Every day you wake up and you might have a different symptom."
This part hits a little too close for comfort. I've been dealing with weird dizzy spells and breathing issues for a couple weeks now, like having to consciously think about inhaling/exhaling that just comes and goes in waves with no real rhyme or reason. Same story with noticeably strange heartbeat "feelings" a few weeks back that have since mostly gone away. Otherwise I feel like a relatively normal 32 y/o.

I'm trying to not don a tin foil hat and tie these things back to a bout of flu I had the last week of February as I assume these just come with the territory of getting a little older, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a nagging thought...
could be anxiety
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10:33p, 6/6/20
Just get antibody test
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In reply to Ragoo • 11:20a, 6/7/20
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Ragoo said:
Fitch said:
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Others are likely having problems with their sympathetic nervous system, which controls unconscious processes like heartbeats and breathing: They'll be out of breath even when their oxygen level is normal, or experience what feel like heart attacks even though EKG readings and chest X-rays are clear. These symptoms wax, wane, and warp over time. "It really is a grab bag," said Davis, who is a co-author of the Body Politic survey. "Every day you wake up and you might have a different symptom."
This part hits a little too close for comfort. I've been dealing with weird dizzy spells and breathing issues for a couple weeks now, like having to consciously think about inhaling/exhaling that just comes and goes in waves with no real rhyme or reason. Same story with noticeably strange heartbeat "feelings" a few weeks back that have since mostly gone away. Otherwise I feel like a relatively normal 32 y/o.

I'm trying to not don a tin foil hat and tie these things back to a bout of flu I had the last week of February as I assume these just come with the territory of getting a little older, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a nagging thought...
could be anxiety

Yep, I had issues with anxiety/panic during after hurricane Harvey, and this is exactly what it was like. Have had some small flare ups in the early stages of covid that were the same.
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11:34a, 6/19/20
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This article addresses my OP question about the dizzying variability of the virus patient experience: MYSTERY
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1:21p, 6/19/20
I know someone who had a worse than mild case of it. She was in the hospital for a day or so...never had to go on the vent.

That was 2 months ago. Now, if she wades in her pool up to chest high water, she says she feels like she is drowning and has to get out.

She told her pulmonologist and the doc just laughed and said "this is such a weird virus. i'll add it to your notes."
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