It was COVID for me too. I got sick during the period in which refrigerator trucks were filling up at the local hospital and nobody really knew what was going on, what to expect, or if there was even anything that could help. You couldn't even get help from a doctor or a hospital. People going to the hospital were basically at death's door already. Anyway, I've never been that sick in my life. Could barely breathe, fever, vomiting, pain everywhere, horrifying dreams in the few hours I managed to sleep, dizziness, heavy limbs. It took about two weeks to feel semi functional again, and then another full year not to be in constant pain, and longer than that to be able to sleep more than a few hours at a time. It is mind blowing that people are trying to rewrite that history while people like me are still alive who remember exactly how bad it was.
I had a very similar experience. My now husband had to help me get in and get out of the shower and I remember shaking and sobbing anticipating how cold it would be to get into bed.
I also would lay there, feeling just about dead, thinking “I need to drink water” and would have fever dreams of me going to the kitchen to fill my water and drink it.
I’m pretty sure it’s the reason I developed terrible migraines and (suspected and awaiting testing) POTS.
I remember shaking and sobbing anticipating how cold it would be to get into bed.
I'm so sorry. It also utterly kicked my ass, but it would have been magnitudes worse if I hadn't bought a heated mattress pad months before. Even in the dead of winter I put that thing at about a 3/10 heat setting at most, but through the worst of covid I kept it on 7/8 and rarely turned it off.
In April 2020, I gave birth seven weeks early due to just the possibility of catching it. The thought of being in your shoes, the isolation, the constant barrage of news stations reporting on the shutdowns, variants, death tolls, supermarket brawls - uterus said, “nope” at the very thought.
I caught it (before vaccines) when I was just hitting 8 months pregnant.
TBH I wasn’t even thinking about me having it, because my husband also got it and he was so ill to the point he had to be hosipitalised. (I remember when I called for an ambulance them being so annoyed that I couldn’t drive him myself, like “GOD can’t you just help him to the car?”. I don’t think I could have safely dragged him down the two flights of stairs to our flat even normally, never mind when 8 months pregnant and ill with Covid, but they seemed to think I was just being a lazy bitch.)
Just as he was discharged from the hospital I felt the movement was less, and they decided to induce because of that and the Covid. My daughter was thankfully fine, but they said the placenta was all “grainy” and degraded. Which wasn’t necessarily because of Covid, but it didn’t happen with the next one so….
So yeah, getting full blown COVID while pregnant was scary.
The worst part for me in retrospect was actually after, because they kept me in for almost 5 days. While my husband was present (physically at least…) for the birth he couldn’t come back, and no one else could come. I wasn’t allowed out of the recovery room (since I was testing Covid positive, though by that point very much not contagious) and a couple of the duty midwives straight up refused to come in the room because it was a “Covid room”. So I was there having been through the ordeal with my husband, along with pre-natal depression and obviously giving birth, then just being stranded alone with my first newborn in a tiny room for four days. There wasn’t even a working TV or anything for background noise. I genuinely thought I was going to completely lose my mind, and honestly I came pretty close.
That sounds horrible.. when I got sick I was terrified of it being long covid as there is no treatment and a coworker ended up with it and can’t work but last I spoke with him also couldn’t get disability due to how long Covid was handled at the time, not sure if that has changed now.. turns out I have lupus.. my rheumatologist was confused why I took the diagnosis so well and when I explained that lupus has established treatment plans, once diagnosed there are biologics you can be on that help a lot but long covid has nothing.. he got where I was coming from and I was right I got on a biologic and my life is almost back to normal.. have a few limitations like working out causes flareups which sucks but that is something manageable. I am able to work, meet with friends, visit my family and live life. Sure I would love to not have lupus but in comparison to long covid I still think I got lucky it’s lupus which sounds crazy I know
Same here. I was sure I was dying. Fell asleep in the hospital and woke up several days later. So many bizarre dreams. Couldn't walk, had no idea how long it had been.
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u/FlamingDragonfruit 10h ago
It was COVID for me too. I got sick during the period in which refrigerator trucks were filling up at the local hospital and nobody really knew what was going on, what to expect, or if there was even anything that could help. You couldn't even get help from a doctor or a hospital. People going to the hospital were basically at death's door already. Anyway, I've never been that sick in my life. Could barely breathe, fever, vomiting, pain everywhere, horrifying dreams in the few hours I managed to sleep, dizziness, heavy limbs. It took about two weeks to feel semi functional again, and then another full year not to be in constant pain, and longer than that to be able to sleep more than a few hours at a time. It is mind blowing that people are trying to rewrite that history while people like me are still alive who remember exactly how bad it was.