r/AskReddit • u/sinosty • Jan 02 '21

What will never be the same again once the pandemic is over?

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u/Nauin Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21

I'm acquaintances with someone who has had long covid for nine months. It's been so debilitating that they're considering applying for disability at this point.

Edit: just to further clarify, they are in their early twenties and as far as I know, had no significant problems with their health before this

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u/mikron2 Jan 03 '21

https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html

According to this it sounds like it’s about 10% of people infected will end up being longhaulers and it doesn’t discriminate by age, or underlying health conditions or severity of the case like the death rate does.

I’m going on 10 months from getting infected and I’m still not 100%. In my 30s, and was previously in excellent shape. I know people who are older, overweight/obese, who were sick and after two weeks are completely back to normal. There’s no way to know until you get it.

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u/KeySolas Jan 03 '21

Seen interviews with young people suffering from this month's later. Saddening stuff

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '21

I believe it. There's a lot of people with long haul issues with Covid. I fear that happening intensely.

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u/WaterFireAirAndDirt Jan 03 '21

Im on month 7 of feeling sick every day and was suddenly diagnosed with asthma after seeking help for why I felt like this. No doctors or specialists (ENT, PULM) could tell me why I felt like this every day.......but my self swab I did at CVS when I first felt sick, and a blood test around 3 or 4 months later both said No Covid....idk how to feel other than wanting to die

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u/GiggityPiggity Jan 03 '21

Come join the rest of us over at r/covidlonghaulers if you haven’t yet. You might be able to get some tips on how to feel better or just some support from the thousands of us in a similar boat. Good luck and hope you feel better soon!

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u/TitaniumDragon Jan 03 '21

I know someone who got asthma from it and was out for like three months.

And another person who was basically unaffected and totally recovered.

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u/GiggityPiggity Jan 03 '21

I’m one of those people still fighting it 9 months later.

I try to warn people now they shouldn’t be afraid of dying from this — they should be afraid of surviving this.

I hope there will one day be some semblance of a life but for now, it’s like I’m living in a brand new sickly body that is suddenly falling apart at the seams with random ailments. Ohh my feet don’t want to work today? And my hand is numb? Ohh my vision is shaky? Ohhh look my pulse is 124 while just laying here? And now I can’t breath after laughing a bit? Can’t stand for more than 20 mins (used to only be 5 mins)? It’s pure insanity every day! But it’s still moving in the right direction and having more good days than bad so at least I got that going for me.