COVID lasts for months?
I’m on my third time getting COVID - once in 2020, once that lasted from October 2021 until February 2022, and now I have had it for about a month. Does anybody else test positive and feel like shit for months at a time like this? Why does this happen?
All the COVID articles out there make this sound like a 10 day thing, and I cannot find anything written on the topic. I don’t have extreme symptoms, just fatigue, systemic inflammation, and brain fog for months on end.
Posted Jun 6, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC
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Some of us feel like crap for years at a time.
I get that part - but do you actively shed the virus this long? Do you test positive for years at a time?
Its very complicated. There is a theory that for some, there is a viral remnant still wreaking havoc in the tissues, blood vessels (Viremia) and even the brain. For others its that the virus is gone, but Covid's unique effects have left the autoimmune system to turn on itself and therefore the nervous system, the circulatory system and lymphatic system.
Basically it affects everything. The good news is that a lot of people (sadly the time it takes can't be measured) that are fully recovered or mostly recovered. But this takes time.
I think Covid completely depleted my vitamin stores so I believe and hope the key to my recovery lies in restoring the lost vitamins.
If you look in the search bar and type "anti inflammatory diet" "vitamins" "supplements" etc it should help you try and figure out and plan your way of making a recovery.
I don’t think you remain contagious. I got tested four months after my infection and tested negative. I continued to have long-haul symptoms for another seven months.