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This is going to be mostly my personal experience with long covid, interspersed with bits of knowledge I receive from the various medical staff that are helping take care of me~ :shiba_excited: I'll try to make sure I just reply to the last post so people new to the series can look back at the old posts easily :bugcat_nod: Hopefully, it can help people understand some of the effects of this rather widespread, invisible disability that I and countless others have to fight day in and day out and empathise with those that have it :hug_love: ----- One of the physical symptoms is that I'm dimished to something like 20% of my previous max stamina, with activities costing multiple times what they previously did alongside a much slower stamina recovery :cat_frown: Grocery trips are prohibitively expensive on the stamina now, and I need to sit for 30~45 minutes before I can even put groceries away...showers require most of a day's worth of stamina (baths are a little better but harder to wash my hair in... cooking? I have to have a stool in the kitchen and even then, the parts that require standing drain my stamina quickly :frog_dizzy: and honestly? I'm one of the lucky ones...Physics Girl (youtube) recently managed to stand up for the first time in a year or two, and that's been both a sobering reminder of what long covid can do as well as a source of great hope for my own recovery, though I'm ready to fight it for years (on top of the 1.5ish years I've already had to deal with it). Back on the topic of physical stamina, the worst part is that exercise doesn't work. For a healthy human, using up 105% of your stamina leads to increased stamina after recovering for a day or two. For long-covid patients, exceeding our (now much smaller) stamina capacity *decreases* our stamina capacity :cat_facepalm: You can think of it as an injury paradigm in that overloading a leg recovering from a recent breakage will re-injure it, not strengthen it :zerotwo_shrug: and that's probably enough for a first entry :cat_think: #Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #Health #Disability @longcovid@a.gup.pe