Might lose my shit and blow up my car today. Who knows? Id honestly probably take a trade right now if someone offered me a decent one. Haven’t had a week of my car running properly in more than three months
Or running at all
accumulastation asked:
Hey I read you were experiencing cognitive problems and brain fog after COVID. I myself had brain surgeries and because COVID can cause a loss of brain matter, this might help you too. Something that helped my brain recover was taking fish oil vitamins and supplants (lots of sardines too) because Omega-3 is literally the stuff your brain is built of. It can take months to see actual improvements, but our brains will try to rebuild themselves and they will if our bodies are given the right materials From personal experience and my down doctor’s suggestions for me, I would really consider taking some consistent doses of Omega-3 to help your brain recover. I can tell you the type that won’t give fishy after-taste, but those are more expensive than regular supplements.
Hey I really appreciate this. My prenatal doesn’t have a bunch of omega 3s in it, so I’ll see about adding them. I was also told I need to learn new things, like how to play an instrument and force my brain to build pathways again and man is that hard right now lol.
I got up and made some banana oat muffins this morning. Turns out we had everything but the nutmeg and the baking soda (the soda was a surprise). So I ran to the convenience store and paid 3x what it was worth.
Then when the muffins were done, I couldn’t find a cooling rack so they went into the next best thing I could find lol
They turned out pretty good. I may have eaten three
long haul covid is now largely being called PACS. post acute covid-19 syndrome.
some quick notes from the dysautonomia international conference about this, some things here may have been incorrectly written down because there was so much (register to learn more and get these presentations in full)
- between 10-50% (some studies say 30-50%, huge range) of people who get covid 19 will have PACS and/or chronic symptoms from covid-19. these are only estimates and many patients going on a year or more. these are chronic conditions without cures even from very mild covid-19 cases. the diagnosis of autonomic and autoimmune conditions took years prior to the pandemic and more accurate numbers will be a while
- many people notice start of symptoms ~4 weeks after infection
- there is autonomic involvement in most cases of PACS
- other viral conditions are associated with developing autonomic dysfunction such as sars and mers. POTS often has a viral trigger regardless of what it is
- covid 19 involves loss of brain matter
- age range is all across the board
- the most common autonomic diagnosis is POTS
- other common diagnoses include orthostatic intolerance, gastrointestinal disturbance
- even with extremely mild covid-19 infection, long term symptoms and chronic illness are common. and by long term, 6+ months. many people stop being able to work at all
- brain fog and memory problems are huge, potentially related to the loss of brain matter
- there is widespread tissue damage throughout the body from covid-19
- there is no diagnostic criteria for PACS yet
- statistics estimate there will be over 10 million people in the US with covid-19 related autonomic dysfunction
- all doctors should get autonomic training
- if you have dysautonomia and develop covid you will very likely get worse, they do not cancel out. get vaccinated
- there is an autoimmune aspect to PACS as well as to POTS, still being worked out. covid-19 may cause an autoimmune storm so to speak
- a diagnosis of POTS currently requires 6+ months of symptoms, so there will be many more diagnoses as time goes on
- there are not enough doctors to care for this influx of autonomic patients
there was a ton of cool information and this is only a snippet. register for the free dysautonomia international virtual conference for the entire presentations
There’s also post-covid patients presenting symptoms not unlike PANDAS/PANS, which is alarming.
There are so many acronyms in here that I’d have to spend more time googling them than it took to read this. Someone who isn’t experiencing brain fog flesh this out please? What is POTS? What are the symptoms of PANDAS? other than being cute and eating bamboo
Hey guys wanna know what happened after I got an extremely mild case of covid that left me with no breathing problems?
•my memory went so bad that I would forget what I was doing in the middle of transactions at work. Total blank. Id have to start over
• i now HAVE to think out all of my sentences word for word because if I just speak off the cuff, I will use synonyms that definitely aren’t right for the context. OR, I have to define a word and ask the nearest person what it is because I can get close and never get the actual word
•oh yeah words, my scrabble game is now crap. What words? I don’t have any. At least when I’m playing an online game, I can spend 20 minutes coming up with a word
• i cannot properly give directions because my brain doesn’t spit out right and left correctly. It just picks one every time and a lot of the time I don’t even realize I’ve done it. I told uprizon to turn left on a right turn only and it took me a solid 10 seconds to realize I said it. Because he doesn’t point it out anymore because it doesn’t do any good
• I speak words out of order. Thats fun
• I have issues reading aloud anyway, but it’s definitely gotten worse and I have to stop and correct myself at least once per sentence.
• I just replaced the word “sentence” in my last bullet point because I was already thinking about the next one and I automatically put “second.” And didn’t realize it until my second proof reading
•lists of stuff I have to do. Because if it is not written down, it will not happen. Doesn’t come up in my head. Doesn’t ring any bells that an event is coming up. Nothing.
It’s getting a little better but I have to put serious effort into relearning things that should be very basic skills for me by now. It fucking sucks and I’m glad it’s getting some recognition
Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription
Me: My pills make me not want to die tho
They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal
Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills
Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills
Me: I’m the alive version of me
An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”
Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic
They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”
Me: “So?”
Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!
Thanks to the pills.
Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”
Oh no, they do that too.
I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to.
Sounds like a great set-up for a murder
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky
Speaking of the luck of the non-disabled…I once terrorized a Karen who was using me to teach her entitled kid that disabled people are Other and should not be treated with respect. I told her (truthfully) that until I was twenty-eight, I wasn’t visibly disabled. Then a defective chromosome that I hadn’t known about kicked in. So my luck ran out. But until then, I had been normal–just…like…her.
The sheer terror on her face as the concept of “You mean I’ve just been lucky so far?” seeped into her brain was a thing of beauty.
People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky
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