Voidmatrix wrote:It may be that it accelerated and increased lifelong depression.
I was actually thinking a little of both. What do you think?
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Void, having covid five times is pretty nasty, glad you are finding your way through it. I picked it up in Jan '22 and it knocked me over for 6 months barely able to leave the house. I was walking an hour a day at that time and feeling on top of the world. The next day I was floored, chair bound and it felt like my brain had been removed. The smashing depression was not much fun either, but it did go.
You symptoms are much like mine were, not only no energy and sleeping day and night, but I couldn't think. I'm an author and I couldn't even read a paragraph from one of the books I needed for my research let alone write a sentence.
Then in June an ex patient of mine dropped in and we chatted about covid and his recent heart surgery. he said that he turned to herbs for treatment rather than take the meds his doc recommended. he said he hasn't looked back. So I asked what he took and did my research and ordered my herbs. Within three days of boiling, cooling and drinking my herbal tea I began to pick up. But, it still took me another year and a half before I could think about writing again.
Two weeks ago my wife and I went with our kids and grandkids to a south pacific island resort for Christmas. It was lovely the first few days, lots swimming and happy hour was great but half way through we all got covid, damn!
The heat and humidity made my wife and I almost pass out on our way home. The airport was not airconditioned and the 4 hr wait to fly out almost killed us. I must say that this second (or maybe more since I didn't test previous periods of unwellness) was no where near as bad as the 1st, thank the gods, but it hasn't been much fun. I tested negative a few days ago and have been feeling OK, but the humidity where I live, sub tropics, has really hit hard. So much for trying to save a few dollars on turning the aircon off early, i can't even sleep without it now.
There are two major positive take-outs from this nasty experience: after 6 months of long covid I started exploring alternatives, like mushrooms, now I grow my own; soon after discovering shrooms I explored marijuana for fatigue and sleep, OMG it worked. Now I am sleeping like a babe and meditating with a combination of the two, low dose and microdose are what works for me. In many ways I am grateful for what came out of my covid experience.
As per the article, I've read it and others that point to the importance of our gut microbiome to our immune system including serotonin production. I'm vegan and eat very well mostly avoiding vegan junk food, though I do love it. The only time during these two years have I got the trots was from eating massive amounts of watermelon, mangoes and papaya to get over this 2nd dose of covid.
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