The Long Covid Collective

Hello! Have any of you had nerve neuralgia or neuropathic symptoms after covid?

Hi everyone! This community is so great, I don’t know too many people suffering from long Covid irl, so this platform is a really great way to connect. My story in short, I was a competitive gymnast for 8 years and a highly competitive cheerleader for 3. The end of my third and final year of cheer my routine was the hardest it’s ever been and I had just recovered from Covid. I’d never had any chronic health issues until this moment but I was struggling to make it through my routines. I was weak, my heart would race, I’d get SOB, among a whole laundry list of symptoms. Somehow I made it through the season after constant gaslighting and everyone telling me it fine and it’s just anxiety. ( I was diagnosed with OCD prior.) After countless doctors visits I was finally diagnosed with POTS, now redisgnosed with dysautonomia…

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my story.

I was at the half-point mark of my PhD in chemistry and at the time practicing for a half-marathon while trying to maintain enough muscle for my long-term goal of participating in a body-building competition some day. I had just been lifting 80 kg 3X12 times and ran 14 km on the weekend in good time and 2 weeks later I cannot get up from bed to get a shower. And mental tasks are even worse up to the point that I got dizzy from reading only a few sentences. And all this is here to stay....

I took a huge part of my mental health and feeling of self-worth/self confidence came from sport and a bit from telling myself that I am halfway intelligent person for being able to do a PhD. Needless to say, that now depression is creeping…