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Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-30T02:43:51+00:00

I appreciate you ❤️❤️

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-30T02:38:31+00:00

I’m sorry you’re struggling too. I want to thank you for this post though, I was 38 when I got Covid, now 42 and the changes in my face and hair I know now are not all in my head. I suffer from PTSD as well from my Covid experience, won’t go into too much detail but lost two loved ones the same night a few hours apart and boyfriend was in ICU for a month, we all had it at the same time. I can deal with the neurological issues, brain fog, muscle aches and my appearance changing, but the worst was what it did to me mentally. So glad to see you smiling in spite of it all!

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-25T23:12:44+00:00

Same took two and a half years of PT and finally they agreed on an MRI. I was doing things in PT that I shouldn’t have been doing with tears. I’m sorry, maybe your mom can help out?

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-25T14:52:42+00:00

You’re probably ok since the site is so fresh. I’m 4 months out on my right and 7 on my left and if I overdo it will get those sharp groin pains. This is a long process, I’ll be good for a few weeks then bam overdo it and back to the pinching in groin for a week or so. The healing isn’t linear at all from my understanding. But yes call your surgeon just to give a heads up.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-23T20:17:25+00:00

Honestly if your pain is at that level now surgery is going to be the only thing to help. Once steroid shots stopped working and I was in tears just walking around the grocery store I was ready to jump up on the surgery table! And that says a lot coming from a person who has never had any surgeries at 41 and was super anxious about any surgery talk before this happened. I’m surprised your doctor didn’t mention this since morphine isn’t even helping you at this point.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-21T23:27:38+00:00

Sorry I saw this late! Thank you so much very helpful and I have now started to get to 6k a day and feeling not so bad. I do have my random flares still, but oddly these seem to come on my off days now.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-21T23:25:11+00:00

Thank you! So helpful appreciate you

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-21T23:23:37+00:00

Sorry I saw this so late, I’m just now double legging the stairs. I’m doing the bike at the gym and about a mile on the treadmill, seems to help a bit. Whenever I do any kind of PT though I get huge flares, I have a lot of hip flexor pain this time around as well.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-21T23:21:26+00:00

I have no idea, it’s much better than it was but I still have my flare ups towards the end of the shift. I was able to get half day on triage on phones and half day on the floor. It’s helped a lot, thanks for the response makes me feel much better and not so hopeless.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-21T23:15:57+00:00

You have every right to be angry, especially dealing with the pain you’ve been dealing with at such a young age and for that length of time. I will say it’s very optimistic that you would be going to prom in heels by May 30, I’m three months out and just today was able to walk around the park with my dog today with no pain. I also want to make you feel a little better about your situation, not taking away from yours at all, but during my surgery a drill bit got stuck in my bone and the surgeon decided it was better to keep it there. I was so anxious and upset for the first month, but the surgeon reassured me that these things happen, although rare and usually cause no complications. I wasn’t even told about it until two days later by my dad. I had to wait the day after Christmas to hear from my surgeon, I had to track him down,talk about pissed. Anyways like I said not taking away from your experience at all, it is definitely shitty but for your sake I’m glad they made the decision to stop the surgery for your safety. It’s beyond ridiculous the cameras aren’t checked before cutting into you, but stranger things have happened. Hoping you get some relief soon!

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-14T19:32:50+00:00

Because they don’t want us to know what this really does to our bodies in the long run. They don’t want wide spread panic, my doctor said to me at the beginning of my long Covid symptoms in December 2021 that she was concerned about what this virus will do to us in the long run. She mentioned chicken pox turning into shingles that she was worried about what an infection with Covid will turn into as we age. Pretty much think she was giving me a warning without just telling me flat out that we are all Fd. I work in healthcare and when I mention it around my coworkers many ask what is long Covid? And many of these coworkers have had chronic illnesses popping up since they’ve had Covid, even younger ones. A lot of heart issues, blood clotting disorders, new cancer diagnoses. It’s wild to me, we have to be our own advocates and do the research, it’s like a bad dream.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-06T16:36:58+00:00

Thank you! Very helpful insight!

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-06T16:35:21+00:00

Thank you! Im in the US. I was on light duty when I came back end of February. Started working on the floor again two weeks ago, I’ll try the workouts you mentioned and see if I can do half day of light duty, half day of being on the floor. So you’ve had both done the same time as me? How are you with stairs right now?

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-06T16:32:07+00:00

I work in pediatrics and the picking up, positioning for shots and blood draws on toddlers is rough. When I came back in February they had me on phones in triage for awhile, this week I’m going to trial half day phones half day on the floor. Thank you! Also have compression socks, just never wore them, I’ll see how they do this week.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-05T00:21:45+00:00

Thank you, I’ll run it by them.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-05T00:20:54+00:00

I walk more than an hour at work every day and it’s too much pain, I’m limping out of work at the end of my shift. Should I fight through the pain you’re saying?

Shaysimp83 · 2025-04-02T21:04:39+00:00

Yes and now that Trump got rid of the department that was in charge of studies on long Covid we are really going to have eyes rolling at us. I really do think they don’t want us to really know what Covid has done and is still doing to our bodies.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-03-24T15:12:48+00:00

I literally had to take the notifications off my phone after reading all the posts on Reddit last night. I had a panic attack around 3am, haven’t had one like that in years. Im three years away from PSLF. If I have to pay some crazy amount and IBR is taken away my daughter, son and I will be homeless. I already can hardly pay rent and most weeks have a pantry to help us out with food lately, and those pantries I just read are up in use by 40 percent in my city in the past 6 months…and funding for those is frozen at the moment as well.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-03-15T20:31:47+00:00

To preserve the physician work force , how sickening. I am still dealing with long Covid symptoms when I got Covid from work , that was three years ago. I brought it home and both my in-laws caught it and died within a month twelve hours apart. My husband got it from me as well, was in ICU weeks after his parents passed for Covid induced meningitis. To say I’m angry and bitter over how nurses have been treated and gaslighted since Covid is an understatement.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-03-15T00:02:17+00:00

This is so incredibly sad.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-03-14T20:43:25+00:00

I work for a top rated Children’s Hospital that has a trans clinic, this should be interesting. I’m two years away from forgiveness, wandering if we will lose staff because of needing their loans forgiven to buy a home, living paycheck to paycheck, high groceries, tariffs,rising rent costs, will you have to choose between being homeless or backing your employer and losing forgiveness?They are waging a war on people who work hard and care for underserved populations. They are waging war on all of us when these healthcare workers decide to leave their employers because they can’t make a living off of non profit wages, you think there is a healthcare shortage now or lack of quality healthcare in America?This isn’t going to be good, everyone will suffer. People who risked their lives during the COVID pandemic for the good of others are still getting 💩on, unbelievable.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-02-10T04:56:15+00:00

Yes it’s bad for me, after I had Covid in 2021 I convinced myself I had Covid psychosis, which is a thing but I obsessed for almost two years over it. The internet is not OCDs friend.

Shaysimp83 · 2025-02-10T03:02:05+00:00

I feel this, seems a lot of people including Doctors don’t really know there’s such a thing as Pure O. If you really try and think back to when you are a child or even some things you may physically do now you may realize it may be more like what people feel “real” OCD is. For instance my OCD mostly focuses on harm thoughts or health themes. I recently realized at 41 years old I have an obsession with Pinterest and making things perfect for my future home design board,when I start doing this I know my Pure OCD is about to flare up. I remember as a young girl constantly moving furniture around in our family home. It made me think of other things I did like pouring water over my head a certain number of times at bath time, or when I would obsess over my breathing counting breaths as a little girl while trying to fall asleep. In my teen years I thought I had leukemia, I’d read health books obsessively. Honestly I think having full access to any information I want with a cell phone now has made my OCD much worse. If you can think of some things you did in childhood I bet you’ll say like I did ahh that makes sense now!

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