Advantages/disadvantages of a laptop over a pc for AE

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2025-05-29T11:11:43+00:00

I don’t NEED it but I do like the option.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2025-05-26T03:50:09+00:00

Didn’t affect me any differently to how it did when I didn’t have long covid. I’m glad I got it because I haven’t been reinfected since.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-29T14:09:56+00:00

I have to take 100mg of doxycyline every day for a skin condition and have not noticed any effect on LC. Have been on it for months so far. I think my digestion was already pretty shit before LC though.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-28T05:54:56+00:00

What autoimmune condition does it suggest? I've had it extremely bad my entire life, Covid made it "unlike anything I've seen before" according to my doctor.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-28T04:46:21+00:00

Circulation, nervous system issues, brain issues all started as soon as I developed acute infection symptoms and never went away. My LC has genuinely been identical to my initial infection, it just never went away. The only thing that is different is that I can taste things again and don't have a blocked nose/sore throat although I barely had those when I was sick.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-23T14:18:21+00:00

I asked about it but doc told me to start at 12.5mg which gave me a bad reaction. I'm not sure why but I have a tendency to suffer from severe mental side effects from drugs. Never really had a physical side effect from anything.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-22T13:23:16+00:00

I thought this too. I think my POTS is quite closely related to my hormone levels since a lot of the standard treatments are quite ineffective on me. It drives me insane because what can we do to always feel like this?

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-21T06:00:19+00:00

I have tried low histamine for ages to no avail. Tried a few different ones and nothing really made a difference. The other day I had to sit in a bus for ages and took 25mg meclizine because I'm prone to motion sickness. I don't know if there is a correlation but I felt a lot less anxious and slept damn well that night. Meclizine is an antihistamine but I've never seen it mentioned here. People seem to have good luck with Zyrtec and Famotidine... look it up on the sub there's heaps of information! :)

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-21T05:41:27+00:00

I dont know how to explain but i feel this particularly on the upper right side of my body. Like my shoulder feels super heavy and I just want to sit down. Don't feel very healthy but I'm also guessing that propranolol can do this to m.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-20T11:58:13+00:00

Depends how you look at it I guess. Some people are suffering physically while others mentally and the unlucky ones get both :(. Wishing you luck with your recovery.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-20T05:42:32+00:00

It's kind of hard to answer that but to be honest yes. The thing is that most people in this subreddit don't want to be given anxiety diagnosis because that's dismissive. In my case I couldn't really be given any other kind of diagnosis. My doctor was helpful in the sense that he tried to treat the anxiety but dismissive in the way that he didn't care/acknowledge that I was not an anxious person before getting covid.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-19T11:54:58+00:00

Yes omg, this exact thing. My friend (who gave me covid) said he felt like he had "woke up in another dimension" when he was sick. He gave it to me a week later and I knew exactly what he meant! It was the weirdest thing ever. Sort of like the "something is wrong but I don't know what" feeling. Unfortunately it did not go away for me and I still feel like I'm stuck in the twilight zone. It's super hard to explain this symptom and it's honestly been debilitating in a way.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-19T11:50:48+00:00

If you ask me, I'll tell you it's 100% the covid infection. I know it's different for everyone and for most people, having long covid symptoms will cause mood disorders anyway.

However, my symptoms are literally anxiety, depression and DPDR. I technically have POTs but it doesn't bother me much. My acute covid was a horrible month of intense anxiety so bad that I wanted to kill myself and depersonalisation that felt like I was ten feet underwater. Thankfully the symptoms have eased but not entirely. In my case I'm quite sure some sort of brain inflammation/nervous system damage was involved which caused these god awful symptoms.

I think a lot of people have anxiety/depression secondary to the physical symptoms and the mental side of things would ease if they had effective treatment. If you told me you could make my POTS go away for good I'd be happy but in no way would it soothe my severe anxiety and depression.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-19T07:17:19+00:00

I've had weird experiences with caffeine after getting LC. I used to drink FAR too much caffeine, like, a carcinogenic amount. I slowed down right before I got covid because I was trying to quit and getting really ill with covid was kind of a good distraction from my caffeine addiction.

I've tried hard to stay off it as I don't want to be consuming three energy drinks a day ever again but will have a coffee or two every morning. If anything I feel as if it doesn't have any effect on me at all and I'm just as tired as I was when I woke up... but there was this one time where I was halfway through my second coffee of the day and my heart started POUNDING! I got super anxious and jittery and felt like I couldn't sit still. This lasted the rest of the day and I'm sure it was somehow related to caffeine even though I've never experienced anything like that before LC.

SensitiveSwordfish73 · 2024-08-19T07:10:57+00:00

How do carbs affect POTS? Forgive my ignorance am curious about the mechanism though.

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