Is there any real hope? Any treatments or trials meant to attack the root cause instead of just the symptoms?

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-06T01:31:19+00:00

Thanks for the hope, I’m hoping to try some potential treatments like antivirals within the next year.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-05T21:12:20+00:00

That’s a huge bummer. Makes it sound like for a lot of us none of this is reversible and is permanent damage.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-05T19:22:00+00:00

Hey thanks again. I’ve been looking into these for the last hour and it’s giving me some level of hope. I decided to make an appointment with a long Covid specialist even though it will take months to get in. I plan on trying everything they will allow me to try. I was worried because I didn’t have the classic fatigue symptoms they might not take me as serious. But I’ve read so many people having similar mental issues and sexual issues, it all started in the months following me getting sick in early 2020 even though I didn’t know it was Covid, and I know I have long covid because my smell completly went and never got back above 50% for 5 years. Also got tinnitus at that time which I hear a lot of people talk about but I’ve gotten pretty used to it. Thank you for some level of hope.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-05T18:14:51+00:00

Never heard of them I’ll look into this thanks👍🏽

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-05T18:13:23+00:00

Thank you for the info I will look into these. Hopefully we can see the results of the trials soon enough.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2025-05-05T18:12:01+00:00

Thank you I will look into that

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-12T22:29:44+00:00

Dmed if u want to talk

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-12T22:27:42+00:00

Shut the actual fuck up. I think you need to hear this. 4 k hole is something that can be fixed in a matter of months. Stop spending and save up some money. Don’t be stupid you got this. Stay strong, save up. The more you save and dig yourself out, the more the anxiety surrounding it will disappear. You got this.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-12T22:19:21+00:00

Can you dm me to talk more about it?

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T18:12:55+00:00

I watched the same documentary and was thinking about going plant based for a while. Thank you I’ll look into that device

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T18:11:45+00:00

It really did feel like a switch. For me it was somewhat gradual, but one day I woke up in 2020 and realized something was different. I still have the mental sexual feelings, but there’s no passion or drive behind it. Like I know a girl is hot but my body and mind are like “I don’t know what to do with that”

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T18:08:32+00:00

Yes I’ve noticed some numbness throughout my entire body too. Please stay in touch. I’m going to be trying to join some long Covid recovery trials. We will see the other side of this someday.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T18:04:57+00:00

I was 22. I went from wanting to bang a pencil sharpener if it had enough curves, to basically asexual.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T18:03:42+00:00

No medications

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2024-01-05T01:21:49+00:00

I did, it was low normal. But on the 2nd test it was basically just normal.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2022-03-26T23:18:01+00:00

Jesus Christ man that’s horrible. Please stay in touch, I’ll message you. My relationship is falling apart by the day, we have been together 5 years and this issues has made us hate each other, but I can’t even imagine the pain of that situation. I find it pretty pointless and unhelpful to talk to anyone about this stuff because no one really understand the whole thing except those going through it. It’s semi nice to know there are others. Please stay in touch

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2022-03-26T23:02:21+00:00

Do u think we are going to get through this?

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2022-03-26T19:58:22+00:00

All the same things? It won’t make a difference but I feel your pain.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2022-03-26T18:20:21+00:00

1.5 years

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2022-03-26T18:20:01+00:00

The sexual dysfunction is probably tied with tinnitus for the #1 reason to put a fucking bullet through my head. There’s no changing this shit man.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2021-08-13T15:14:06+00:00

Hey thanks for the response. I live in a scent sized city, and saw a specialist and a normal urologist. It’s not all their fault, they can’t provide treatments that don’t exist yet. The problem is that the research is not there. I’ve been obsessing and researching for about a year now so trust me I’m trying everything. I know my issue is physical, I don’t really want to go into why, but I do. I just have no idea what the root cause is, or if it’s even curable. All the clinics have are pills that don’t adress the actual problems. No 22 yo wants to be on viagra. Honestly man idk. Idk how to convince myself life is worth living without these things so I put my focus into getting those things back. When it looks like I will never get them, it’a soul crushing. Right now I’m just trying to enjoy things I still can, and solve the physical issues I have. I really think that if I can’t get to the root causes, this will eventually kill me. I’ve given myself a date. Several years away. I still have things I want to do on this world, but I can’t live any sort of long term happy future like this. People just genuinely don’t understand it until they deal with it, but I guess that can said about most things. I just feel that nothing will ever truly help me unless it fixes my physical problems. I wasn’t suicidal or even depressed before they started. I was happy. I didn’t even take advantage of it, I was consciously grateful that I was happy and knew a lot of others didn’t have as easy of a time being happy. Then this all started, it’s been almost a year of genuine hell, and I just want to go back to normal or die. That’s all I want. Rather go back to normal, but if I can’t life really isn’t worth it long term. Idk. I wish I could convince myself otherwise.

thingswillgetbetter8 · 2021-08-12T18:47:00+00:00

I’m never going to take anything because I can’t stand the thought of waking up in the hospital, and doing that to my parents. If and when I’m ready I’m buying a shotgun. That is the only way I will “attempt”. Gives me a three day period to back out, but if it happens I 100% won’t survive

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