I died a little inside watching this. I live in a place with terrible healthcare outcomes (Texas, US) and since becoming temporarily paralyzed in February, 2021 I've been tested for everything from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome to bipolar disorder to Chronic Fatigue to Multiple Sclerosis. I've been getting worse and worse this whole time and my doctors are just now considering Covid. 😭😭😭 For over a year I haven't been able to work, I've lost my mobility, my relationships, my creative outlets and most of my mind. I can't even bathe and dress myself. Half the time I can't speak or write or think. Finally, when I went to the hospital a few weeks ago someone said: Looks like long Covid. These symptoms are going to last a few months. Thank you for making this video and giving me some comfort in knowing that someone out there still trusts in science.
I’m sorry you are going thru this also. I almost can’t remember who I was before longhaulers. The worst for me is my mind and nervous system. My brain seems to be on overload all the time, thoughts constantly hitting my brain snd that’s not me. It’s something with the nervous system. Also the physical symptoms are too many too count. Weak and fatigued most all the time, can barely get sentences out that make sense, snd this new nervous crazy condition. I tell my daughter I’ve changed, but God has not. I try to keep my focus on him and his amazing love and his son is truly coming soon. This is all just part of the last days.
@@neurotransmissions I never could understand those ads as a Halfbreed who has seen my dad's parents, my mom's third husband, and more than a few friends drink themselves to death. After all weed is so much safer...
I lost my sense of taste and 90% of my sense of smell for six days last week because of C19. My heart goes out to the people who lost those senses for a long time and especially for good; food and drink are such important sources of pleasure you don't really realize until they're gone.
Oh dear, glad you recovered. I can not imagine not being able to feel tastes/smells/aromas. Besides the obvious lack and taste of foods the worst would be not smelling favorite perfumes, shower gels, the smell of my fav people and pets. My heart goes out to anyone who loses their senses.
My sister and a few of her friends got covid a few weeks ago. They had only mild symptoms like coughing, tiredness, a runny nose, only one of them had a fever. Now about 3-4 weeks later they have all trouble with their breathing if they have walk a bit or go up some stairs. Two of them still can't taste anything. They are all vaccinated and have the booster as well. I am not so much concerned about the symptoms you get with covid itself since the new variants get weaker and weaker. I am more concerned with things like Long-Covid and PIMS.
Thank you for sharing! It's a bummer that they all got sick, despite being boosted, but it probably prevented those more serious symptoms! And yeah, I'm with you. Long Covid just seems miserable.
No experimental gene therapy vaccine and I was sick for a day and tired for about ten days same with 83 year old grandmother. Enjoy being a Guinea pig for no reason lol
I’ve had it twice & many of my friends & family have had it at least once..those of us that refused to have the jab are absolutely fine..those that had it are experiencing the symptoms you mention & my mother & her partner both suffered from strokes, within 2-3 days of receiving the booster..what does this tell you ? .. we now have a mountain of evidence that clearly tells us about adverse reactions/side effects from the vax..Robert Malone (inventor of mRNA technology) has openly warned of the dangers..educate yourself !
My roommate and I had it twice. We both feel like death every day, especially after the second time, which was far worse than the first, even though we both are vaccinnated.
Definitely got anhedonia from covid, never had any of these symptoms before, feels like zero dopamine, no motivation everyday, feel low everyday, taste buds are almost non existent, concentration levels are very poor, feel no pleasure in doing anything i love, dont care as much as I use to, memory loss is really bad, and never had any signs of this before, I felt this 3 days while I had covid and it never stopped 6 - 7 months later
@@valentinszegedi9289 I am good, I am on a anhedonia program I do daily, reprogramming my brain, good results so far, however still quite a few months to go, many people done it have had really good results and got all there feelings back
Me: Young healthy adult. Exercising, eating good food. No know underlying conditions. No alcohol, smoking or other bad things. (Before vaccines were a thing) My government: All students shall stay in school. Me: Stays in school. Avoids covid. My brother: Brings covid anyway. Me: Hope they're right that young people ain't having problems. Also Me: Get covid. Also gets severe allergies, brain fog, severe memory problems. etc. Me: Year and half later. Still severe allergies. Have as of yet been to multiple doctors and still no real medicine for it. Still memory problems, but at least it's a bit better... Yeah, I'm fucked.
@@neurotransmissions Thank you! As in allergies, it's a blocked nose, and without a real term for it, my lungs don't pick up as much oxygen. This does sometimes lead to headaches when just sitting around. Have tried a couple different medicines, but nothing has as of yet not worked fully. But I've just got directed to some doctor specialist so I have my hopes up! As in others areas. When I just got covid I could literally have trouble remembering a page I just read moments before. As in both what important parts contained as well as just the subject as a whole. These memory and brain fog problems have improved quite a lot, although it still feels like I am a bit more forgetful than normal and I can't learn 'pure information as fast as I did before. But still, it's lots better.
That's exactly my story, I was a nationally ranked athlete and had close to perfect SAT scores. Now I can barely function, with neurological and pulmonary issued. I've legitimately considered suicide, it has ruined my life
My dad had covid pneumonia a year ago and It caused him to loose ability to stand / walk and he is still battling psychosis, every 6 weeks the a cycle starts. Also got severe polyneuropathy. It’s a nightmare to say the least and I’m absolutely exhausted caring for him.
@@maraclausum It's still less likely with the vaccine. And i should, logically, bet on the option that gives me the greatest chance of living. Even the safer option can sometimes cause problems though, yes.
I myself have covid psychosis and wasn't getting answers so went to school and got an MSc in Psychology with a focus on neuropsychology. It helped to understand from a fully-educated perspective. What's shocking is how flippant professionals are being with this epidemic.
I am almost two years post acute COVID-19 infection and still suffering greatly. Memory, focus, extreme fatigue, heart problems.... And I was a perfectly healthy 24 yo who worked, went to school full time, and did everything right health wise.
I have a kidney transplant and I'm in a similar position petty much everyone around me has moved on and accepted they're just gonna get it at some point. I worry more about long covid than dying from covid. I think the public education surrounding long covid is severely lacking - I'm sure people would be more careful if they knew how devastating long covid can be
I'm 25yo and got covid twice, one after another, delta then omikron. I was horribly sick with delta. Afterwards, my asthma got worse, joint and muscle pain remained and even walk around the room got me really tired. After omikron, which I passed ok, I lost half of my smell sense, have problems sleeping, have panic attacks and horrible brain fog. I was fully vaccinated and had only asthma before. All mentioned after effects remained so far. So no, being young and healthy does not protect you. And I stayed home, protected myself as well as I could, but my irresponsible family got me sick
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’m also in the same boat 🥺Being young and healthy definitely doesn’t protect us from the longterm if not lifetime damage wracked by the virus. I’m still dealing with the longterm effects of Covid even after almost a year post covid like 24/7 tinnitus and problems sleeping. I hope you recover as much as possible and are doing okay right now.
Have you done an update of this? You should. It would be interesting to see how new findings about covid-19, the vaccines and long covid sufferers as changed? Yes I had it, I had pneumonia and spent a week in hospital, I have some long covid symptoms but no one is interested in any more - it's a dirty secret we can't talk about.
Not vaccinated, allergic to PEG which is one of the ingredients. I got Covid mid-November, lasted 4 days, no fever, no cough, lost taste first two days, then it was okay , no brain fog, it was just like a bad cold with runny nose. I guess it must effect people differently, I should add that I have always been an exceptionally healthy person my whole life. No issues of any kind, one of the lucky ones
I never had anxiety until after I got covid now it's on 11 like all the time. I used to be able to sleep all day and now if I get woken up it's impossible to go back to sleep. I'll sleep and wake up and be ready to go back to bed. I'm so high strung and jumpy now it's crazy.
Dont worry it’s not in your head , viruses can do that but usually exacerbate minor disorders , are you sure you did not had any anxiety disorders before ? How would you describe your anxiety today , random waves ? Or constant ?
As a clerk I get to hear lots of stories from different people of all walks of life. Sometimes it really scares me, just how lax some people handle covid and outright ignore the local covid rules. Just today I had a mother tell me, that, instead of vaccinating her children, she told them to 'go and cuddle' with their infected dad, so they 'could all be quarentiened at the same time' and get a 'natural immunisation' with out the risks of the vaccine. My warning about Long-Covid just fell on deaf ears.
@@Insanitea That maybe true in concern situations but it’s better to teach and guide them to be safe and good judgement calls than face the consequences of mistakes that could have been avoided.
😊 Thank you for this. It sucks to be reminded of everything - but it makes me feel less alone as ‘the only person in the grocery store with a mask on’. My wife is both high-risk 𝙖𝙣𝙙 a practicing pulmonologist. It’s a perfect storm of being ‘unfortunately well-informed’. I’m looking forward to being too exhausted to be angry anymore. (-but for now, I still fantasize about harming strangers while simply avoiding them in the aisles.)
@@neurotransmissions It comes and goes. Medicine helps, but I noticed that I am still making careless mistakes or just being confused over things. I just push through and deal with it. It's been 3 weeks since I got sick though.
Well luckily you're still pretty close, timewise, to the illness. Hopefully that fades over time, but I feel you. 3 weeks is still a loooooong time to feel like crap.
I myself have covid psychosis and wasn't getting answers so went to school and got an MSc in Psychology with a focus on neuropsychology. It helped to understand from a fully-educated perspective. What's shocking is how flippant professionals are being with this epidemic.
Good for you for looking after yourself. I've managed to avoid it until 2 weeks ago. I am triple jabbed in my late 20s and it was really unpleasant, lost my sense of smell but it has mostly returned, and I'm feeling exhausted. Stay safe, and wear a mask!
Had covid in late July 2022. I had omicron variant. My symptoms were mild. I’m a healthy young 26 year old. Honestly even in September now I still feel noticeably different. My sleep isn’t the best.
Had COVID back in April, a "mild" case (39°c fever, confusion, difficulty breathing..) and wasn't hospitalised, now I have long COVID and it sucks, the brain fog sucks, the joint pain sucks, it also impacted my kidney and prostate. I wish I never had it.
truth. i had a very mild case of covid. i now have neuro pasc, its not fun dealing with this constantly tired, brain fog, anxiety, it has brought on some scary intrusive thoughts, it was a slow decline in health after recovering from my mild acute infection. my infection was so mild with omicron i could of worked through it to put things into perspective.. long covid is real for vaccinated and non-vaccinated, long covid dont care of your political affiliation your sexual preference. or religious beliefs, i was ignorant thinking it would be a sore throat and bad cold.. the irony of my own ignorance some days makes me laugh or cry.. be safe people
Thanks for this, it’s good to be reminded of the significant uncertainty that still surrounds this pandemic. I suspect that many of the longer term effects of covid, including those which we haven’t discovered yet, have to do with increasing one’s viral load. Consider the recent study linking multiple sclerosis to EBV and how many years of research this took to discover. I’ve been lucky enough to live in New Zealand for the duration of the pandemic, but we’re finally experiencing our first real outbreak of omicron. If you want more protection than the n95, I would personally recommend buying a 3M 7502 half face mask with p100 filters - the head strap and silicone coating around the sides provides an excellent seal.
Thank you for the mask tip! I'm a fellow New Zealander and am deeply immunocompromised, living with Long Covid with almost every symptom in the book, which worsened my MECFS to below the 25% severe category. All my heart and blood problems got worse, so did my brain fog and temperature regulation. I've been homebound since March last year, and isolating since I had to pull out of uni in 2020. The lockdown never ended for me.
Anyone who is dealing with long Covid experienced numbness in hands or feet? Also feeling of pins and needles and freezing hands/feet. Scares me.a lot!
I had Covid about a month ago. I had 2 Moderna vaccines and 1 J&J booster. I had gotten fairly sick off of the booster. I started with severe fatigue and stuffiness. Depression started kicking in... etc. I am still suffering fatigue, A LOT of cognitive dysfunction and brain fog. My short-term memory is garbage and it is affecting my job. Luckily, I have spell check!
Do not take any more boosters. Those who had a reaction are 67% more likely to have an even worse reaction the next time. Look into improving your immunity naturally with the nutrients you are likely lacking. Vitamin D3, K2 (mk-7) and magnesium. Also, NAC, vitamin C, and a multi-vitamin to cover the rest.
Before COVID, I had an awesome memory and I was somewhat of a "super smeller", which led me to really enjoy good foods, snobby coffee, and craft beer. I caught COVID back in July 2020, and my smell and taste are still really really muted and messed up. I have good days where I do smell some things, and it's still very very broken on those days. It's really hard to describe without giving weird details? Asparagus pee smells like ramen without flavoring. Poo smells and anything sulfur-ish smelling is just sour instead. It's so muted I can't identify any scents I do notice. The strangest part about the "good days" when my sense of smell is more functional than most days, is how exhausting it is to smell things. It's like smelling something is too stimulating to my brain, and it just seems to completely overwhelm me. Sometime last year on a good "smell day" I was having, I smelled the tangerine I was eating and it made me really really lightheaded and tired. I had to take a nap afterwards :| Of course that's just the worst part of the long-lasting effects, because it now means I literally can't enjoy any food or drinks, but it's a small part of how it affected me overall. My memory is so bad I have to keep notepads around so I can remember simple things that weren't even remotely an issue before. At least the one scary side-effect finally went away?? That being the one where I could just be sitting here watching a youtube video and my heart rate would spike to 180+ bpm out of nowhere for a few minutes, only to drop to 50bpm if I didn't get up and do something that should result in a higher heartrate. Moving around some as it spiked was something I tried that turned out to be helpful, and I'm glad that was the case. It would spike like that a few times a week for several months, and it was always terrifying. Especially how I'd have to nap afterwards almost every time.
10 years ago I loss my sense of smell from a car accident. (and head injury) People were like oh, sorry to hear that. Got covid before they knew what was going on. I became very ill after every vaccination. Not normal chest stuff, head exploding headaches. Now I'm back to where I was 10 years ago. Comprehension gone and tired all the time. What I want to say to you is you can enjoy food again. I was a chef. I still cook for others. It kills me when someone says that smells so good. Even though I know? what onions smell like. I ASK them. When friends have good wine, I ask them.
How does SARS-CoV-2 get into the brain in the first place? Or since it may not be the virus itself in the brain, how do the inflammatory markers and promotors of microglia inflammation become active/ present in the brain?
Short answer to both: blood/vascular system. COVID can pass through the blood brain barrier, allowing it to enter neurons and glial cells. The inflammatory markers covid causes also circulate in the blood, which goes to the brain and activates microglia. Microglia are meant to respond to local inflammation/damage in the brain, as they are macrophages. I believe monocytes are the markers that activate microglia, if you'd like to read further.
Great Video! I haven't had Covid, but a colleague at work did and he was young and even ran marathons! Hit him hard too. If anyone says anything critical about my mask or that I'm vaxxed up, I tell them I do it out of courtesy to them and the people around me.
Yes , I had someone at a party argue with me about that masks don’t work While I was wearing my mask. My household member thought it was okay to go to parties with no mask (six parties in one month.) Despite my reminding them to take precaution such as Masks, social distancing and limiting Parties -preferably no large events. However they didn’t listen and got a mild illness & didn’t tell us & infected the whole household. Not fun!
To all of you out there feeling sorry for yourself, there are people with severe disabilities that had to go through the lockdown without any help or support. I was lucky enough to have a family friend that would bring me food. Still having mobility issues unable to stand unable to take a shower or Basic things to take care of yourself is dreadful. But the worst thing is that nobody ever heard us and nobody cared enough to do anything. You’re speaking about three years of pandemic how about decades of being Sick and eventually bedridden?!
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been suffering long covid now for over a year and a half. I never had to be hospitalized. Got my smell back, no taste. Shortness of breath, chronic fatigue. Short term memory is the worst. I have myself carry a notebook, I think I’m saying one thing and say another. A frustrating time for my wife. 🥺
My BF and I had it in October, I lost my sense of taste and then we both now experience our hands going cold and numb on us as if they are going to sleep, not getting enough blood flow to them. It's painful but other than those two things everything else is normal.
Had covid twice. January 2020 and 2021. 2020 symptoms were lost of smell and bad headaches. I developed brain fog, anxiety and panic attacks 2 weeks after recovery. thank you for the science. it helps with the anxiety
@@benmahoney777 it about to be 2 years and I still deal with brain fog but it’s not as severe as it was in the beginning. anxiety is still there but is manageable unlike the beginning. panic attacks are no more. they converted to anxiety attacks now.
I'm the poster child for long covid. I've had all the variants and long hauling each one was a progressively unpleasant time for me. Delta went into my brain through my Vagus nerve invading my right eyeball and optic nerve. It got into my brain and it felt like a jagged splintered stick was jammed through the center of my brain an stuck out my right eyebrow. It hurt really bad for 6 weeks then I deluded myself into thinking pain and pleasure share the same neuro transmitters and converted it all into a permanent acid trip or something like that. Better that before annoying to others. Now i'm long hauling Omicron. It has infected my left thumb paralyzing it and affecting my grip. I will take my funky thumb over any other funky part even though it impedes my favorite pastime and means to find meaningful social interaction by performing solo guitar music for weddings. I still work on keeping my guitar chops it really hurts but that never stopped me before. I keeps me from planning any musical goals for sure and with the next variant surly incubating some where right now it's going to be a long time before we never return to normal.
Thanks so much for sharing your personal experience as well as all this information on how COVID affects the brain. Question: Do you know if other coronaviruses (or maybe other types of viruses that cause colds) have similar long term neurological effects associated with them? Thanks again!
Fortunately, I've been lucky enough to not have caught COVID so far. I'm in the lower south east in almost rural South Australia, not in a particularly densely populated area and due to border closures and swift lockdowns we were able to avoid all but two or three local community infections until Omicron hit. That's when our government decided to open everything up and redefine what a close contact was so we have effectively done away with contact tracing. Now it's rife in the community and the government says there was no way to know this would happen. So, it seems it's only a matter of time before I catch it, no matter how careful I am, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and take the boosters when I'm due. My grandmother is in aged care in Adelaide, South Australia, and recently caught COVID. She's triple vaccinated. She was lucky to have had only mild cold like symptoms and seems to have recovered just fine, though she does have a bit of dementia, so it would be hard to tell if she's having any lingering brain fog issues. I hope you guys manage to stay safe and avoid it, too.
Boosted and still Covid Free I plan to ride it out this summer until Fall hoping an Omicron Vaccine update arrives. . I have had 5 friends die from Covid all of them non Vaccinated. My friend age 58 died from Delta he was non Vaxxed his wife fully vaccinated has been Covid free. We do the best we can.
I am 50 and had a very thick head full of hair. After Covid in September 2021 around January I had lost a bunch of hair. It came back probably May, or June but not all came back in my frontal area.
Lots of neurological issues since had covid a couple times. Memory' struggle for words, pain in eye, anxiety and issues with executive function. All caused by inflammation.
It's the spike protein, go grab some Horse paste, Quercetin, Zinc, D3, and C. Quercitin helps coat the spike protein, Zinc helps you to absorb Quercitin, D3, C, is to help your immune system. They are all over the counter. Horse paste you can get from the feed store. It's unfortunate Horse paste is such a political connotation to it. But I've tried it(apple flavor) it's safe. and do not get the vassine, you injecting something to turn your body into a spike protein manufacturing machine.
I lost my sense of taste and smell for 9 months and brainfog ongoing 4 years later (in September). Little by little cognition is improving, i push my mind by learnjng Italian
I seem to have recovered well from "covid fog" , thankfully. I know i walked and walked to try to clear it at the time. It was more of a depression. Also, i read one should up b-12 intake, and fish oil. I use(d) kava tea, which is said to provide " a calming sense of well- being". It's from the polynesian islands i think, and can be found at kroger, maybe whole foods too. It has unique ingredients, kavalactones.
You and Micah are so lucky to have each other tho❤ those of us who are living alone are really going through stuff (especially when struggling w mental health problems in the first place), I couldnt manage to say no to parties even tho im terrified of covid. (Despite receiving three vaxx shots) Loneliness scares me more.
I had covid a year and two months ago and I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell but I did have issues with retaining oxygen and i had a high fever for a week. I ended up in the hospital and sedated and incubated for 6 days. I had a a fever that lasted another week and got up to 104. I came out of my sedation with the thought that I wad abducted by aliens and everyone, including my mom and dad had been one too. I was on a feeding tube and could barely talk. My weight in that two weeks when from 225 to 194 by time I left the hospital another week later. I was week and memory was shot it seemed like and I was out of work for two more months and was trying to get back to normal. I have most of my strength back and can walk the 8 hours I use to but if I have one busy night at the casino I work at and hurt for two days after. My body aches and my memory is still a problem but improving. I feel like I don't looked at the world the same. I'm angry all the time and I can't seem to shake it and my patience is nothing what it use to be. I can't deal with people at my work place when I finally went back and honestly feel like I have trouble in many social interactions. With my voice having issues still after a year, people misread my tone since I don't have much if one. My body language is off because I'm constantly aching and hurting. I have to change jobs because it hurts to try to waitress and make the money I use to. And I'm constantly angry that no one understands or tries to. I hear I'm just grumpy and I'm different and in alot of ways I am. I just don't know who I'm supposed to be right now since I ran myself into the ground and I think that's why I got so sick. Out of four people in my household, one being older and another being a cancer survivor, I got it the worst so I think I was so beat down from not only running so much since our casino was still open while everything was closed and we were so short it was always busy. I was always okay with taking on more work and I'm just not okay with it anymore. So if you're a long hauler and feel like you're losing it and no one understands, trust me I do. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm going back to counseling and hope for the best. Please hold on.
It FRYS the brain... over time...a fellow employee I've know for over 14 years began acting strange, told my boss I did a lot of talking and not much work when 1 day we worked together . He was yelling at me all day...I kept asking him what was wrong...since I rarely anymore got to work with him or in that department I asked him what to do and when I was finished with the task asked him again what to do and again endued his rage...the dept mgr did not believe me when I told her what happened then told me what he said about me not working...I told her then he was acting bizarre...many weeks later I was asked to work in the dept and he caused a major problem in the dept and when I attempted to repair it it was ME who go in trouble...2 weeks later he passed away...I realized then his brain was fried because the behavior I had experienced was not like him...I was also kicked out of a department and got written up too...I've been part of that dept in another store for over 9 years so when I attempted to repair the problem it wasn't because I didn't understand how to do it since it had happened before....the mgr and another employee in the dept have both been ill on an off...this lady speaking has not a clue....SHE's the one who is scary...she's taken 3 jabs....that, is scary!
Both humans in our household are high-risk. It's incredibly frustrating to hear people talking about just acceping COVID as being here to stay and wanting to be done with everything right down to masks. I mean, if you want to risk that, I suppose I can't stop you, but some of us have different odds and calculate the pros and cons differently. We're equally concerned about our two 13-year-old cats, who need us and who could get it. How do you ask a cat if they're having long-term issues? Especially when one already has undefined neurological issues? Thank goodness for cats during two years of self-isolation! I've been staying off social media, but I'm going to drop by Facebook to drop in a link to this, and hope that a few people I haven't talked to much lately (including a few refusing to get vaccinated!) watch it. Thank you for making this!
I had a feeling of soreness and burning in spots on my head. My family did too. It was so weird. I never heard this talked about. I already had this from nerve damage but this was different. I also had loss of taste and smell for a year! My brain damage came from a toxic mold exposure over 20 years ago and I can tell you that this virus ACTS LIKE NEURO TOXINS DO.
I caught CO in Sept 2020 I had pretty much everythg fever on & off, loss of smell, taste, sore throat, BODY ACHES which made me want to die! then my mental health was affected the worst! It took me 1 mnth and a half to get better! Thank god I wasnt living alone or else i would have starved to death as i had no strength to cook or anything I just ate blade foods Now been 2 yrs but I run out of breath easily, I can carry grocery like before, I am constantly tired etc etc
After my bouts with Covid, I learned play games to stimulate my cognitive abilities. I would recommend games such as Magic: The Gathering, Cards, Checkers, and Chess to help recover. Also: Reading books and learning higher forms of math such as Alebra, Trig, and Calculus help.
Things don't taste the same again. I also have a minty like taste after anytime I eat or drink. My depression has gotten worse and have lost more emotions and my energy level isn't the same. I hope the minty taste goes away the emotions I'm good on that. I got it a year ago in July 2021
In my case, the illness lasted a year and a half. It started with neurological symptoms - panic attacks, severe dizziness. A month later I got POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and dozens of symptoms such as eye pain, joint pain, bone pain, back pain, headache, shortness of breath, intestinal and stomach problems, allergic reactions to histamine, fevers, extra heartbeats, heart palpitations, chest pains. The symptoms went on for months, about 15 months to be exact. At first I could not stand or sit for even 15 seconds. My pulse would rise to 130 after standing up, my blood pressure would drop. After a few months I could stand for about a minute. Then 5 minutes and slowly longer, but I still couldn't walk or sit normally. The dizziness was nightmarish and remains to this day, but lighter whenever I move my head or eyes. POTS passed after I started taking large amounts of iron, drinking vegetable juices and forcing myself to walk and sit. Today I don't feel one bit like I did before I got sick. Lack of energy, dizziness, lack of motivation, intolerance to exertion, joint pain, reactions to food that I didn't have, heart skips, memory and concentration problems. Doctors know absolutely nothing about long covid, send to psychologists, psychologist finds nothing wrong. I wish everyone suffering from long covid a full recovery. I wish no one what a person suffering from long covid has to go through.
@@joseolvera9287 Hi, thanks for asking. After my symptoms and especially POTS calmed down I got sick with covid for the second time and all the symptoms came back again. Currently, my standing pulse is 130, in addition to experiencing shortness of breath, joint, muscle, bone and back pain, dizziness, weakness. I also have allergic reactions to histamine-containing food (MCAS - mast cell activation), which manifests as full-body pain, burning skin, throat constriction, shortness of breath, weakness and flu-like symptoms in general.
and Ive had heart issues but that was something rare for me now I cant stay up to long or my heart will act up.And I been having different type of pain from sharp ,to inflammation type etc.some times in my chest
Caught COVID in December of 2021 at work from a coworker who refused to wear a mask already had low energy brain fog muscle pain and neurological issues from the vaccine after back and forth with doctors accrued big bills you would think this would be a worker’s compensation claim?
When I had covid-19 a lot of bad things happened to me 1 I had a sore throat 2 I couldn't breathe I had to go to the er and they checked me and I was positive of covid then when I got home 3 I went to bed and when I woke up my body was hot 4 I had brain fm fog I was confused it was like I knew I was in my bedroom but it was like I was somewhere else I try to claim my self down because I was crying and Iris mad then that night I had horrible nightmare and I would wake up in the middle of the night and trun on my lights and play my video games intill I was tired again then I would eat grapes because they said on UA-cam if you eat them then they will help kill the covid-19 virus and I would eat all kinds of things then I take 2 phills a day it's the vaccine pillsand that's how I got over the covid-19 virus Monday morning I knew I was going back to work I was happy and healthy again 😄😁☺😊😷😷😷😀😃🙂
I had 4 shot, a nurse just got covid been around it since march 2019. Your info is the most informative then even the CD and other physicians. Thanks for telling us...what to look for and treat sounds like aspirin a day could be helpful. Pick up a bible for strength and peace thankful to you.
i got Covic-19 3 weeks after it became world news. my friend had returned from her doctorate in mexico and was a bit sick. 8 days later i was stuck in my bedroom for around 3 weeks. now with hindsight i should have gone to the hospital and gotten checked. but this was around the time where old people were starting to get it and the hospitals started to be full so we did not go. after those 3 weeks i had brainfog and shortness of breath. good thing my uni switched to doing essays instead of 4 hours of testing so i could take my time with them and make sure they where good. i was never a runner and i had childhood astmah but i could not even walk for 10 min. the brainfog lasted a while and my grades suffered but it did eventually pass. but man it was anoying.
Be warned about the 4th dose (2nd booster). The virologists are not settled among themselves about whether it's a good idea or not. One of the selling points of the mRNAs was that the makers should be able to switch them up easily and cheaply. I'm hanging back like this lady, hoping to avoid the virus and wait for them to come out with one targeted at the omicron lineage. Also, I'm redoubling my habit of taking my vitamins d & k and omega oils.
Yes, I had it for 5 months and brain dysfunction was one of the worst parts. I felt like I was living in a dream. Nothing was real, not even me. Disassociation and derealization. Horrible. I still mask.
@@judemorales4U thank you! I’m praying I get there. I’m a month in. I want to feel joy and connect with the world again. Such a struggle. Did it go away on its own
@@applej3496 oh, I'm so sorry for you. Well I am American but live in Egypt and health care is not standard here. However, I took lactoferrin, zinc&C, vitamin 3D and a powder drink as a supplement because I could barely eat. It really tore my gut up and I still sometimes get a flare up. So I had meds for that. Apple, drink all you can and force yourself to eat if you lost your appetite as I did. I remember eating an orange and it was like eating a shoe. I pushed it down. I prayed a lot. I didn't think I would recover. As mentioned, it caused me anxiety, depression and depersonalization syndrome. I resisted anti-depressives but they may help some people. I felt so strange mentally for 2-3 months. Honey, keep going. It will go away but it could take a few months. Don't be frustrated if people don't understand what you are going through, some people recover easier than others and it may take more time for you. Be patient and be kind to yourself. You will have a couple good days and think... at last, but then it hits you again. It's so difficult. I wish you a complete and speedy recovery. If you need to talk message me here. God bless you always.
@@judemorales4U thank you so much for taking your time to share your story. I will keep faith and keep pushing through. What an inspiration to hear how well you are doing. God bless you as well and thank you for responding!
I don't know that the blood brain Barrier Is the only issue The virus can spread into the frontal cortex through the sinus passage Cat scans have shown anywhere from 2% andAnd in specific regions 6% Neuron los , Would be curious to compare the effects of a frontal laboratory To the effects of frontal lobe neuron loss caused by the virus ,
I don’t remember, I got covid. Also this video is great education for the masses. I was looking for the answers to a few of my questions, so thank you. I still wonder if I can blame covid tho.
Lemme think up a comment about cats and neurology... "A minute of silence for all cats that gave their brains to research." Didn't come out quite cheerful, oh well
- 2:10 Do you remember when you were childishly naïve and believe in people? - 2:44 We all? 🤨 Speak for yourself. Fortunately (?) my soul died years ago (for reasons I won't subject others to, better to not know that exists in the world 😕), so I wasn't surprised at all by the last couple of years, I knew full-well what to expect. 😒 - 3:10 People who have had to postpone plans are lucky. Many more lost everything, and even they are luckier than the ones who aren't even around anymore. 😕 "Lucky" 🤦 - 3:33 I went out more during the pandemic than in the several years before. - 3:43 I'm so sick of people whining about being bored. There are literally _countless_ things to do, even at home. I have enough stuff on my to-do list to last numerous lifetimes. I need to find a vampire to make me immortal. 😒 Being bored isn't the same as being frustrated from not socializing. I think a lot of people conflate the two. 🤦 - 8:30 So maybe people shouldn't smoke, losing their sense of smell (and by extension, taste), is more harm smoking does. - 9:45 Myelin is like insulation on a wire, and when it's gone, neurons short-circuit. It's fascinating that the analogy is so apt. As usual, our technology has analogs in the natural world that nature came up with billions of years earlier. - 10:33 Insidious is the key word. People think that just because something seems to be okay after some sort of disaster, that it's "fine", but there could be all kinds of problems you just haven't noticed yet. For example, if you drop your phone in water or it gets zapped from static electricity, that it turns on doesn't mean it's fine, it might have damage you just haven't noticed yet, like the Bluetooth might not work anymore but you haven't tried to use it, or maybe the 2Ghz WiFi is broken and you didn't notice yet because you're using 5Ghz WiFi or one of the speakers is broken but you haven't used that part yet. Likewise, just because you survive a stroke and seem to be okay, doesn't mean you haven't lost a bunch of memories you just haven't tried to access yet, or lost some words from your vocabulary that you haven't tried to use yet, or lost the ability to integrate second-order differentials. A lot of the righties who love saying "it's got a 97% survival rate" as an excuse to not take any precautions (as if a 3% mortality rate is "good" 🙄), forget that surviving doesn't mean unharmed. You could survive but come out with brain damage or lose a lung or all kinds of other permanent damage. 🤦 - 10:49 My concern is that discussing long-term effects of the virus gives righty anti-intelligence people ammunition to spout garbage about the vaccines; they're already using "we don't know about the long-term effects" as an excuse, and this could just give them precedent to say "see!!!" 😕 Worse, they'll naturally extrapolate that as "proof" of every BS argument they make like "it was made too fast" and "it's experimental", neither of which are true. 🤦 (And probably that 5G nonsense too. 🙄) - 12:52 Of course psychosomatic illness are real, that's the whole basis of the placebo effect. ("Why Do Placebos Work?" 4ya) - 13:24 Not a doctor? I could have sworn you got a PhD (in 2019). 🤔 Must be a Berenstein thing. 🤷 - 14:36 At the start, there were about equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans being hospitalized. Once the shots came out, almost all of the hospitalizations (of people without per-existing conditions that make them vulnerable) were Republican. Why do you think Angry Orange said "it's good, we [sic 🙄] made a good vaccine, it's a good shot, I got the shot, I think you should get it 🤷" at that rally? He was worried there wouldn't be enough people on his side left to vote for him in 2024. It didn't work, they booed him. They have _zero_ loyalty to anyone, not even their Citrus in Chief. They created a monster, and he created one back. 🤦 - 15:17 B-b-b-but, I like my brain. I use it almost every day. 😕 I got three shots, but FOX "News" says you can still get it even if vaccinated. I'm not going out anymore. - 15:30 It's so absurd that when neurons rupture, they leak materials that is toxic to other neurons. 🤦 "Intelligent design" 🙄 - 17:12 The worst part is when anti-sanity people keep spouting "we'll have to learn to live with it, it'll become endemic" as an excuse to not take precautions against it, (1) as if it being endemic is a good thing 🙄, and (2) which makes it so much worse, because if ti's going to be around indefinitely, then all the _MORE_ reason to get the shot, like the flu shots every year!!! 🤦 Seriously, I swear, it's like they think "endemic" means "no longer serious or dangerous". 😒 - 17:29 Generally speaking (read usually, but by no means always), the pattern is that if a virus survives long enough, it will eventually evolve to be more contagious but less fatal because killing the host isn't reproductively advantageous. But then, the anti-rationality people tend not to believe in evolution anyway. 🙄 - 18:08 I _WISH_ I could play a video-game. I don't even remember the last time I did. I'm sick of people saying they've "seen everything on Netflix". Pft, whatever. I -spend- waste literally all day on just UA-cam alone. My list of TV shows and movies keeps piling up. Video-games? Books? Ha! 🙄 - 18:21 WTF good is the economy if you're too dead to make use of it? The reason that so many people have been quitting their jobs (and the media calling it a "quitation" and companies putting out passive-aggressive signs about nobody want to work anymore 🙄), is because people have reevaluated their priorities, they've realized that life is too short to waste it doing a worthless job for even a lot of money, let alone minimum-wage, that's especially true if they've lost loved ones. Who cares about the economy if you can't even breathe or if your loved ones are gone? Who cares about _anything_ then? 😒 - 19:21 I enjoyed going for a walk last year down the empty streets and feeling like it was a post-apocalyptic world. It was nice. It's kind of depressing to think that that will probably never happen again (not even when China unleashes yet another one in a few years because they weren't held accountable and learned and changed nothing, just like after the exact same situation happened in 2003). - 19:28 Appealing to people to think of others is pointless. The people that are the problem are selfish too. - 19:45 Wait, so you're saying cancer and car-crashes and stuff didn't have the courtesy to pause during the pandemic? 😲 - 21:45 I haven't had any reason to think I've had Covid, but I'm curious to do an antigen test to see if I've been exposed and was immune. 🤔 - 22:42 Comment about cats.
Wow hoping you got some help. It must be the long covid causing anger issues. It happens to lots of people. Seriously though the political bs is mixing politics with health. They don’t go together. Dementia Pres screaming at people and former Pres being gaslit by Birx the whole thing was handled incredibly poor. These neurological conditions were widely known from every other virus known. They never said a damn thing like they knew nothing about a coronavirus/respiratory virus. Look up the lit on the nih website and it’s all there. Even 4 pillars in managing a pandemic. Didn’t follow one. Total fail.
@@neurotransmissions honestly, I have opposite ideas about the vax and absolute distrust in our government. As intelligent you seem to me, your statement threw me off. 😊
@@Robsgetinlit That’s interesting… Are you saying that you’re not “against receiving a vaccine” but instead don’t believe that a vaccine exists? -and if you had proof that what you were getting 𝘸𝘢𝘴 a vaccine then you’d roll up that sleeve?
Have been in college and got COVID after lockdowns. I had severe brain fog. No one believed me. It’s helpful to have this video to link to those that doubted me
We got cats in 2018, and we're introverts who like hang out at home, and we're left our country of origin a year before that, so didn't have much friends closeby anyway (read: 2). All those restrictions didn't hit us that emotionally hard now that I'm looking back, however I am really grateful to have those two cats. They indeed lift up the day, and you'll see new funny situations daily. Up until now we've managed to avoid visible covid, and same as you, I'd like it to stay that way as long as humanly possible... Neither covid nor long covid are a joke if you end up on the wrong end of the bargain :/ But I keep hearing people who were equally careful getting hit by omicron, so I doubt I'll manage to completely avoid it. However, the later, the better :) Good wishes to everyone to not end with long covid, and to those who have them, from the bottom of my heart I wish them as fast recovery as possible!
Don't know if this is due to long COVID19 but your background music irritates me. I realize this probably doesn't bother many folks. I wish I could turn it off.
I died a little inside watching this.
I live in a place with terrible healthcare outcomes (Texas, US) and since becoming temporarily paralyzed in February, 2021 I've been tested for everything from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome to bipolar disorder to Chronic Fatigue to Multiple Sclerosis. I've been getting worse and worse this whole time and my doctors are just now considering Covid. 😭😭😭
For over a year I haven't been able to work, I've lost my mobility, my relationships, my creative outlets and most of my mind. I can't even bathe and dress myself. Half the time I can't speak or write or think. Finally, when I went to the hospital a few weeks ago someone said:
Looks like long Covid. These symptoms are going to last a few months.
Thank you for making this video and giving me some comfort in knowing that someone out there still trusts in science.
I am so sorry to hear about what you've been dealing with. I wish you a complete and speedy recovery. 💐
Good luck...
Sorry about your symptoms. I have long covid19 and it's now 1year with severe disabilities
@@rikib1171 I had covid too.seems like brain ache.what are ur symptoms ?
I’m sorry you are going thru this also. I almost can’t remember who I was before longhaulers. The worst for me is my mind and nervous system. My brain seems to be on overload all the time, thoughts constantly hitting my brain snd that’s not me. It’s something with the nervous system. Also the physical symptoms are too many too count. Weak and fatigued most all the time, can barely get sentences out that make sense, snd this new nervous crazy condition. I tell my daughter I’ve changed, but God has not. I try to keep my focus on him and his amazing love and his son is truly coming soon. This is all just part of the last days.
Can't lie, I immediately thought of the frying pan hitting the egg when I read the title lol
Lmao! The middle age white man shows you scrambled eggs. "This is your brain on covid AND drugs."
😂😂😂😂😂
Same
@@neurotransmissions I never could understand those ads as a Halfbreed who has seen my dad's parents, my mom's third husband, and more than a few friends drink themselves to death. After all weed is so much safer...
Fried!
I lost my sense of taste and 90% of my sense of smell for six days last week because of C19. My heart goes out to the people who lost those senses for a long time and especially for good; food and drink are such important sources of pleasure you don't really realize until they're gone.
Oh dear, glad you recovered. I can not imagine not being able to feel tastes/smells/aromas. Besides the obvious lack and taste of foods the worst would be not smelling favorite perfumes, shower gels, the smell of my fav people and pets. My heart goes out to anyone who loses their senses.
what about the people that almost died or did die i think thats more important than taste and smell -_-
My sense of smell was damaging for good, but at least it is easier to clean the cat box...
@@davidhollenshead4892 were you vaxck’ed?
@@jarrettthomas4865 There was no vaccine back when I caught Covid...
My sister and a few of her friends got covid a few weeks ago. They had only mild symptoms like coughing, tiredness, a runny nose, only one of them had a fever. Now about 3-4 weeks later they have all trouble with their breathing if they have walk a bit or go up some stairs. Two of them still can't taste anything. They are all vaccinated and have the booster as well.
I am not so much concerned about the symptoms you get with covid itself since the new variants get weaker and weaker. I am more concerned with things like Long-Covid and PIMS.
Thank you for sharing! It's a bummer that they all got sick, despite being boosted, but it probably prevented those more serious symptoms! And yeah, I'm with you. Long Covid just seems miserable.
@@neurotransmissions I love how you kept talking while ignoring your cat's need to be seen on camera while obviously cleaning it's cat privates...
No experimental gene therapy vaccine and I was sick for a day and tired for about ten days same with 83 year old grandmother.
Enjoy being a Guinea pig for no reason lol
I’ve had it twice & many of my friends & family have had it at least once..those of us that refused to have the jab are absolutely fine..those that had it are experiencing the symptoms you mention & my mother & her partner both suffered from strokes, within 2-3 days of receiving the booster..what does this tell you ? .. we now have a mountain of evidence that clearly tells us about adverse reactions/side effects from the vax..Robert Malone (inventor of mRNA technology) has openly warned of the dangers..educate yourself !
My roommate and I had it twice. We both feel like death every day, especially after the second time, which was far worse than the first, even though we both are vaccinnated.
Definitely got anhedonia from covid, never had any of these symptoms before, feels like zero dopamine, no motivation everyday, feel low everyday, taste buds are almost non existent, concentration levels are very poor, feel no pleasure in doing anything i love, dont care as much as I use to, memory loss is really bad, and never had any signs of this before, I felt this 3 days while I had covid and it never stopped 6 - 7 months later
Hi,
How are you now?
@@valentinszegedi9289 I am good, I am on a anhedonia program I do daily, reprogramming my brain, good results so far, however still quite a few months to go, many people done it have had really good results and got all there feelings back
Me: Young healthy adult. Exercising, eating good food. No know underlying conditions. No alcohol, smoking or other bad things.
(Before vaccines were a thing)
My government: All students shall stay in school.
Me: Stays in school. Avoids covid.
My brother: Brings covid anyway.
Me: Hope they're right that young people ain't having problems.
Also Me: Get covid. Also gets severe allergies, brain fog, severe memory problems. etc.
Me: Year and half later. Still severe allergies. Have as of yet been to multiple doctors and still no real medicine for it. Still memory problems, but at least it's a bit better...
Yeah, I'm fucked.
Oh man, that sounds awful, I'm sorry. I hope it continues to get better and better. Where are you still noticing problems?
@@neurotransmissions Thank you!
As in allergies, it's a blocked nose, and without a real term for it, my lungs don't pick up as much oxygen. This does sometimes lead to headaches when just sitting around. Have tried a couple different medicines, but nothing has as of yet not worked fully. But I've just got directed to some doctor specialist so I have my hopes up!
As in others areas. When I just got covid I could literally have trouble remembering a page I just read moments before. As in both what important parts contained as well as just the subject as a whole. These memory and brain fog problems have improved quite a lot, although it still feels like I am a bit more forgetful than normal and I can't learn 'pure information as fast as I did before. But still, it's lots better.
@@Fox-Paw For what it's worth, I'm sorry and I hope things improve for you in the future.
I'm at two years now and this shit sucks
That's exactly my story, I was a nationally ranked athlete and had close to perfect SAT scores. Now I can barely function, with neurological and pulmonary issued. I've legitimately considered suicide, it has ruined my life
My dad had covid pneumonia a year ago and It caused him to loose ability to stand / walk and he is still battling psychosis, every 6 weeks the a cycle starts. Also got severe polyneuropathy. It’s a nightmare to say the least and I’m absolutely exhausted caring for him.
My dad too but he never had covid but the vaccines. Aftre the second shot when he came home, he fell in the street and since then he cant walk.
No one will understand the hardship of caring for the elderly, they will judge, and you must stay strong. Be well and take care.
@@maraclausum It's still less likely with the vaccine.
And i should, logically, bet on the option that gives me the greatest chance of living.
Even the safer option can sometimes cause problems though, yes.
I myself have covid psychosis and wasn't getting answers so went to school and got an MSc in Psychology with a focus on neuropsychology. It helped to understand from a fully-educated perspective. What's shocking is how flippant professionals are being with this epidemic.
I am almost two years post acute COVID-19 infection and still suffering greatly. Memory, focus, extreme fatigue, heart problems.... And I was a perfectly healthy 24 yo who worked, went to school full time, and did everything right health wise.
I was 23 when I caught it in March 2020 with no known comorbidities, the intensity of illness can't really be put into words
I have a kidney transplant and I'm in a similar position petty much everyone around me has moved on and accepted they're just gonna get it at some point. I worry more about long covid than dying from covid. I think the public education surrounding long covid is severely lacking - I'm sure people would be more careful if they knew how devastating long covid can be
I'm 25yo and got covid twice, one after another, delta then omikron. I was horribly sick with delta. Afterwards, my asthma got worse, joint and muscle pain remained and even walk around the room got me really tired. After omikron, which I passed ok, I lost half of my smell sense, have problems sleeping, have panic attacks and horrible brain fog. I was fully vaccinated and had only asthma before. All mentioned after effects remained so far. So no, being young and healthy does not protect you. And I stayed home, protected myself as well as I could, but my irresponsible family got me sick
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’m also in the same boat 🥺Being young and healthy definitely doesn’t protect us from the longterm if not lifetime damage wracked by the virus. I’m still dealing with the longterm effects of Covid even after almost a year post covid like 24/7 tinnitus and problems sleeping. I hope you recover as much as possible and are doing okay right now.
Have you done an update of this? You should. It would be interesting to see how new findings about covid-19, the vaccines and long covid sufferers as changed? Yes I had it, I had pneumonia and spent a week in hospital, I have some long covid symptoms but no one is interested in any more - it's a dirty secret we can't talk about.
Not vaccinated, allergic to PEG which is one of the ingredients. I got Covid mid-November, lasted 4 days, no fever, no cough, lost taste first two days, then it was okay , no brain fog, it was just like a bad cold with runny nose. I guess it must effect people differently, I should add that I have always been an exceptionally healthy person my whole life. No issues of any kind, one of the lucky ones
I never had anxiety until after I got covid now it's on 11 like all the time. I used to be able to sleep all day and now if I get woken up it's impossible to go back to sleep. I'll sleep and wake up and be ready to go back to bed. I'm so high strung and jumpy now it's crazy.
Dont worry it’s not in your head , viruses can do that but usually exacerbate minor disorders , are you sure you did not had any anxiety disorders before ? How would you describe your anxiety today , random waves ? Or constant ?
@@ghassenbohli4056 positive I never had it before. It's the worst in the morning when I'm trying to go back to sleep
As a clerk I get to hear lots of stories from different people of all walks of life. Sometimes it really scares me, just how lax some people handle covid and outright ignore the local covid rules.
Just today I had a mother tell me, that, instead of vaccinating her children, she told them to 'go and cuddle' with their infected dad, so they 'could all be quarentiened at the same time' and get a 'natural immunisation' with out the risks of the vaccine.
My warning about Long-Covid just fell on deaf ears.
But vaccinated people are also getting long covid symotoms!!
@@ashleyhayes7568 That is true, but risking your kids lifes by getting them willingly infected is something I cannot comprehend.
@@Insanitea yeah.... why would you directly risk them. 😕
@@Insanitea That maybe true in concern situations but it’s better to teach and guide them to be safe and good judgement calls than face the consequences of mistakes that could have been avoided.
😊 Thank you for this. It sucks to be reminded of everything - but it makes me feel less alone as ‘the only person in the grocery store with a mask on’. My wife is both high-risk 𝙖𝙣𝙙 a practicing pulmonologist. It’s a perfect storm of being ‘unfortunately well-informed’. I’m looking forward to being too exhausted to be angry anymore.
(-but for now, I still fantasize about harming strangers while simply avoiding them in the aisles.)
You understand you can get all this vaxed or not right? I sure hope so.
I'm right there with you... very few of us wearing masks anymore, but I will continue wearing mine for awhile.
Brain fog + inattentive ADHD = not fun
Yikers, yeah, that sounds no good. How are you dealing with it?
@@neurotransmissions It comes and goes. Medicine helps, but I noticed that I am still making careless mistakes or just being confused over things. I just push through and deal with it. It's been 3 weeks since I got sick though.
Well luckily you're still pretty close, timewise, to the illness. Hopefully that fades over time, but I feel you. 3 weeks is still a loooooong time to feel like crap.
@Morgan Heffernan Right there with you. May you feel better a.s.a.p.
I myself have covid psychosis and wasn't getting answers so went to school and got an MSc in Psychology with a focus on neuropsychology. It helped to understand from a fully-educated perspective. What's shocking is how flippant professionals are being with this epidemic.
Good for you for looking after yourself. I've managed to avoid it until 2 weeks ago. I am triple jabbed in my late 20s and it was really unpleasant, lost my sense of smell but it has mostly returned, and I'm feeling exhausted. Stay safe, and wear a mask!
Had covid in late July 2022. I had omicron variant. My symptoms were mild. I’m a healthy young 26 year old. Honestly even in September now I still feel noticeably different. My sleep isn’t the best.
Had COVID back in April, a "mild" case (39°c fever, confusion, difficulty breathing..) and wasn't hospitalised, now I have long COVID and it sucks, the brain fog sucks, the joint pain sucks, it also impacted my kidney and prostate. I wish I never had it.
truth. i had a very mild case of covid. i now have neuro pasc, its not fun dealing with this constantly tired, brain fog, anxiety, it has brought on some scary intrusive thoughts, it was a slow decline in health after recovering from my mild acute infection. my infection was so mild with omicron i could of worked through it to put things into perspective.. long covid is real for vaccinated and non-vaccinated, long covid dont care of your political affiliation your sexual preference. or religious beliefs, i was ignorant thinking it would be a sore throat and bad cold.. the irony of my own ignorance some days makes me laugh or cry.. be safe people
Thanks for this, it’s good to be reminded of the significant uncertainty that still surrounds this pandemic. I suspect that many of the longer term effects of covid, including those which we haven’t discovered yet, have to do with increasing one’s viral load. Consider the recent study linking multiple sclerosis to EBV and how many years of research this took to discover. I’ve been lucky enough to live in New Zealand for the duration of the pandemic, but we’re finally experiencing our first real outbreak of omicron. If you want more protection than the n95, I would personally recommend buying a 3M 7502 half face mask with p100 filters - the head strap and silicone coating around the sides provides an excellent seal.
Thank you for the mask tip! I'm a fellow New Zealander and am deeply immunocompromised, living with Long Covid with almost every symptom in the book, which worsened my MECFS to below the 25% severe category. All my heart and blood problems got worse, so did my brain fog and temperature regulation. I've been homebound since March last year, and isolating since I had to pull out of uni in 2020. The lockdown never ended for me.
Anyone who is dealing with long Covid experienced numbness in hands or feet? Also feeling of pins and needles and freezing hands/feet. Scares me.a lot!
I had Covid about a month ago. I had 2 Moderna vaccines and 1 J&J booster. I had gotten fairly sick off of the booster. I started with severe fatigue and stuffiness. Depression started kicking in... etc. I am still suffering fatigue, A LOT of cognitive dysfunction and brain fog. My short-term memory is garbage and it is affecting my job. Luckily, I have spell check!
Do not take any more boosters. Those who had a reaction are 67% more likely to have an even worse reaction the next time. Look into improving your immunity naturally with the nutrients you are likely lacking. Vitamin D3, K2 (mk-7) and magnesium. Also, NAC, vitamin C, and a multi-vitamin to cover the rest.
Before COVID, I had an awesome memory and I was somewhat of a "super smeller", which led me to really enjoy good foods, snobby coffee, and craft beer. I caught COVID back in July 2020, and my smell and taste are still really really muted and messed up. I have good days where I do smell some things, and it's still very very broken on those days. It's really hard to describe without giving weird details? Asparagus pee smells like ramen without flavoring. Poo smells and anything sulfur-ish smelling is just sour instead. It's so muted I can't identify any scents I do notice.
The strangest part about the "good days" when my sense of smell is more functional than most days, is how exhausting it is to smell things. It's like smelling something is too stimulating to my brain, and it just seems to completely overwhelm me. Sometime last year on a good "smell day" I was having, I smelled the tangerine I was eating and it made me really really lightheaded and tired. I had to take a nap afterwards :|
Of course that's just the worst part of the long-lasting effects, because it now means I literally can't enjoy any food or drinks, but it's a small part of how it affected me overall. My memory is so bad I have to keep notepads around so I can remember simple things that weren't even remotely an issue before. At least the one scary side-effect finally went away?? That being the one where I could just be sitting here watching a youtube video and my heart rate would spike to 180+ bpm out of nowhere for a few minutes, only to drop to 50bpm if I didn't get up and do something that should result in a higher heartrate. Moving around some as it spiked was something I tried that turned out to be helpful, and I'm glad that was the case. It would spike like that a few times a week for several months, and it was always terrifying. Especially how I'd have to nap afterwards almost every time.
10 years ago I loss my sense of smell from a car accident. (and head injury) People were like oh, sorry to hear that. Got covid before they knew what was going on. I became very ill after every vaccination. Not normal chest stuff, head exploding headaches. Now I'm back to where I was 10 years ago. Comprehension gone and tired all the time.
What I want to say to you is you can enjoy food again. I was a chef. I still cook for others. It kills me when someone says that smells so good. Even though I know? what onions smell like. I ASK them. When friends have good wine, I ask them.
How does SARS-CoV-2 get into the brain in the first place? Or since it may not be the virus itself in the brain, how do the inflammatory markers and promotors of microglia inflammation become active/ present in the brain?
Short answer to both: blood/vascular system. COVID can pass through the blood brain barrier, allowing it to enter neurons and glial cells. The inflammatory markers covid causes also circulate in the blood, which goes to the brain and activates microglia. Microglia are meant to respond to local inflammation/damage in the brain, as they are macrophages. I believe monocytes are the markers that activate microglia, if you'd like to read further.
Great Video! I haven't had Covid, but a colleague at work did and he was young and even ran marathons! Hit him hard too. If anyone says anything critical about my mask or that I'm vaxxed up, I tell them I do it out of courtesy to them and the people around me.
well, need some body fat, my guess
Yes , I had someone at a party argue with me about that masks don’t work While I was wearing my mask. My household member thought it was okay to go to parties with no mask (six parties in one month.) Despite my reminding them to take precaution such as Masks, social distancing and limiting
Parties -preferably no large events. However they didn’t listen and got a mild illness & didn’t tell us & infected the whole household. Not fun!
To all of you out there feeling sorry for yourself, there are people with severe disabilities that had to go through the lockdown without any help or support. I was lucky enough to have a family friend that would bring me food. Still having mobility issues unable to stand unable to take a shower or Basic things to take care of yourself is dreadful. But the worst thing is that nobody ever heard us and nobody cared enough to do anything. You’re speaking about three years of pandemic how about decades of being Sick and eventually bedridden?!
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been suffering long covid now for over a year and a half. I never had to be hospitalized. Got my smell back, no taste. Shortness of breath, chronic fatigue. Short term memory is the worst. I have myself carry a notebook, I think I’m saying one thing and say another. A frustrating time for my wife. 🥺
My BF and I had it in October, I lost my sense of taste and then we both now experience our hands going cold and numb on us as if they are going to sleep, not getting enough blood flow to them. It's painful but other than those two things everything else is normal.
Had covid twice. January 2020 and 2021. 2020 symptoms were lost of smell and bad headaches. I developed brain fog, anxiety and panic attacks 2 weeks after recovery. thank you for the science. it helps with the anxiety
How are you feeling now?
@@benmahoney777 it about to be 2 years and I still deal with brain fog but it’s not as severe as it was in the beginning. anxiety is still there but is manageable unlike the beginning. panic attacks are no more. they converted to anxiety attacks now.
@@daveltang you didn’t have anxiety pre Covid ??
I am in love with the fact that my cat started snuggling me once the cat came on screen.
I'm the poster child for long covid. I've had all the variants and long hauling each one was a progressively unpleasant time for me. Delta went into my brain through my Vagus nerve invading my right eyeball and optic nerve. It got into my brain and it felt like a jagged splintered stick was jammed through the center of my brain an stuck out my right eyebrow. It hurt really bad for 6 weeks then I deluded myself into thinking pain and pleasure share the same neuro transmitters and converted it all into a permanent acid trip or something like that. Better that before annoying to others. Now i'm long hauling Omicron. It has infected my left thumb paralyzing it and affecting my grip. I will take my funky thumb over any other funky part even though it impedes my favorite pastime and means to find meaningful social interaction by performing solo guitar music for weddings. I still work on keeping my guitar chops it really hurts but that never stopped me before. I keeps me from planning any musical goals for sure and with the next variant surly incubating some where right now it's going to be a long time before we never return to normal.
Thanks so much for sharing your personal experience as well as all this information on how COVID affects the brain. Question: Do you know if other coronaviruses (or maybe other types of viruses that cause colds) have similar long term neurological effects associated with them?
Thanks again!
I wonder how many people got the flu injection here before they contracted cov ID
Fortunately, I've been lucky enough to not have caught COVID so far. I'm in the lower south east in almost rural South Australia, not in a particularly densely populated area and due to border closures and swift lockdowns we were able to avoid all but two or three local community infections until Omicron hit. That's when our government decided to open everything up and redefine what a close contact was so we have effectively done away with contact tracing. Now it's rife in the community and the government says there was no way to know this would happen.
So, it seems it's only a matter of time before I catch it, no matter how careful I am, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and take the boosters when I'm due.
My grandmother is in aged care in Adelaide, South Australia, and recently caught COVID. She's triple vaccinated. She was lucky to have had only mild cold like symptoms and seems to have recovered just fine, though she does have a bit of dementia, so it would be hard to tell if she's having any lingering brain fog issues.
I hope you guys manage to stay safe and avoid it, too.
an update vid on this would be great !
Boosted and still Covid Free I plan to ride it out this summer until Fall hoping an Omicron Vaccine update arrives. . I have had 5 friends die from Covid all of them non Vaccinated. My friend age 58 died from Delta he was non Vaxxed his wife fully vaccinated has been Covid free. We do the best we can.
I not believe you.
@@joebloggs2862 Believe what you want I only deal with reality. I am still Covid free and living healthy.
I am 50 and had a very thick head full of hair. After Covid in September 2021 around January I had lost a bunch of hair. It came back probably May, or June but not all came back in my frontal area.
Lots of neurological issues since had covid a couple times. Memory' struggle for words, pain in eye, anxiety and issues with executive function. All caused by inflammation.
It's the spike protein, go grab some Horse paste, Quercetin, Zinc, D3, and C. Quercitin helps coat the spike protein, Zinc helps you to absorb Quercitin, D3, C, is to help your immune system. They are all over the counter. Horse paste you can get from the feed store. It's unfortunate Horse paste is such a political connotation to it. But I've tried it(apple flavor) it's safe. and do not get the vassine, you injecting something to turn your body into a spike protein manufacturing machine.
I lost my sense of taste and smell for 9 months and brainfog ongoing 4 years later (in September). Little by little cognition is improving, i push my mind by learnjng Italian
Wow, great video. I had no idea it could affect the brain so much.
Is anyone fully recovered from covid brain fog? I'm going on 2 months and I'm very worried
I seem to have recovered well from "covid fog" , thankfully.
I know i walked and walked to try to clear it at the time. It was more of a depression. Also, i read one should up b-12 intake, and fish oil.
I use(d) kava tea, which is said to provide " a calming sense of well- being". It's from the polynesian islands i think, and can be found at kroger, maybe whole foods too.
It has unique ingredients, kavalactones.
Ok, so for those of us struggling with long Covid, the strange music in the background made it even harder to concentrate on what was being said 🫤
You and Micah are so lucky to have each other tho❤ those of us who are living alone are really going through stuff (especially when struggling w mental health problems in the first place), I couldnt manage to say no to parties even tho im terrified of covid. (Despite receiving three vaxx shots) Loneliness scares me more.
I had covid a year and two months ago and I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell but I did have issues with retaining oxygen and i had a high fever for a week. I ended up in the hospital and sedated and incubated for 6 days. I had a a fever that lasted another week and got up to 104. I came out of my sedation with the thought that I wad abducted by aliens and everyone, including my mom and dad had been one too. I was on a feeding tube and could barely talk. My weight in that two weeks when from 225 to 194 by time I left the hospital another week later. I was week and memory was shot it seemed like and I was out of work for two more months and was trying to get back to normal. I have most of my strength back and can walk the 8 hours I use to but if I have one busy night at the casino I work at and hurt for two days after. My body aches and my memory is still a problem but improving. I feel like I don't looked at the world the same. I'm angry all the time and I can't seem to shake it and my patience is nothing what it use to be. I can't deal with people at my work place when I finally went back and honestly feel like I have trouble in many social interactions. With my voice having issues still after a year, people misread my tone since I don't have much if one. My body language is off because I'm constantly aching and hurting. I have to change jobs because it hurts to try to waitress and make the money I use to. And I'm constantly angry that no one understands or tries to. I hear I'm just grumpy and I'm different and in alot of ways I am. I just don't know who I'm supposed to be right now since I ran myself into the ground and I think that's why I got so sick. Out of four people in my household, one being older and another being a cancer survivor, I got it the worst so I think I was so beat down from not only running so much since our casino was still open while everything was closed and we were so short it was always busy. I was always okay with taking on more work and I'm just not okay with it anymore. So if you're a long hauler and feel like you're losing it and no one understands, trust me I do. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm going back to counseling and hope for the best. Please hold on.
It FRYS the brain... over time...a fellow employee I've know for over 14 years began acting strange, told my boss I did a lot of talking and not much work when 1 day we worked together . He was yelling at me all day...I kept asking him what was wrong...since I rarely anymore got to work with him or in that department I asked him what to do and when I was finished with the task asked him again what to do and again endued his rage...the dept mgr did not believe me when I told her what happened then told me what he said about me not working...I told her then he was acting bizarre...many weeks later I was asked to work in the dept and he caused a major problem in the dept and when I attempted to repair it it was ME who go in trouble...2 weeks later he passed away...I realized then his brain was fried because the behavior I had experienced was not like him...I was also kicked out of a department and got written up too...I've been part of that dept in another store for over 9 years so when I attempted to repair the problem it wasn't because I didn't understand how to do it since it had happened before....the mgr and another employee in the dept have both been ill on an off...this lady speaking has not a clue....SHE's the one who is scary...she's taken 3 jabs....that, is scary!
Both humans in our household are high-risk. It's incredibly frustrating to hear people talking about just acceping COVID as being here to stay and wanting to be done with everything right down to masks. I mean, if you want to risk that, I suppose I can't stop you, but some of us have different odds and calculate the pros and cons differently. We're equally concerned about our two 13-year-old cats, who need us and who could get it. How do you ask a cat if they're having long-term issues? Especially when one already has undefined neurological issues?
Thank goodness for cats during two years of self-isolation!
I've been staying off social media, but I'm going to drop by Facebook to drop in a link to this, and hope that a few people I haven't talked to much lately (including a few refusing to get vaccinated!) watch it. Thank you for making this!
I had a feeling of soreness and burning in spots on my head. My family did too. It was so weird. I never heard this talked about. I already had this from nerve damage but this was different. I also had loss of taste and smell for a year! My brain damage came from a toxic mold exposure over 20 years ago and I can tell you that this virus ACTS LIKE NEURO TOXINS DO.
I caught CO in Sept 2020 I had pretty much everythg fever on & off, loss of smell, taste, sore throat, BODY ACHES which made me want to die! then my mental health was affected the worst! It took me 1 mnth and a half to get better!
Thank god I wasnt living alone or else i would have starved to death as i had no strength to cook or anything
I just ate blade foods
Now been 2 yrs but I run out of breath easily, I can carry grocery like before, I am constantly tired etc etc
Oh hey, I'm on your UA-cam homepage!
Heck yeah, you know it! UA-cam knows what I like.
Politicians went to parties, restaurants etc...
After my bouts with Covid, I learned play games to stimulate my cognitive abilities. I would recommend games such as Magic: The Gathering, Cards, Checkers, and Chess to help recover. Also: Reading books and learning higher forms of math such as Alebra, Trig, and Calculus help.
Things don't taste the same again. I also have a minty like taste after anytime I eat or drink. My depression has gotten worse and have lost more emotions and my energy level isn't the same. I hope the minty taste goes away the emotions I'm good on that. I got it a year ago in July 2021
My sense of smell and taste has been slightly different ever since getting COVID-19
In my case, the illness lasted a year and a half. It started with neurological symptoms - panic attacks, severe dizziness. A month later I got POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and dozens of symptoms such as eye pain, joint pain, bone pain, back pain, headache, shortness of breath, intestinal and stomach problems, allergic reactions to histamine, fevers, extra heartbeats, heart palpitations, chest pains. The symptoms went on for months, about 15 months to be exact. At first I could not stand or sit for even 15 seconds. My pulse would rise to 130 after standing up, my blood pressure would drop. After a few months I could stand for about a minute. Then 5 minutes and slowly longer, but I still couldn't walk or sit normally. The dizziness was nightmarish and remains to this day, but lighter whenever I move my head or eyes. POTS passed after I started taking large amounts of iron, drinking vegetable juices and forcing myself to walk and sit. Today I don't feel one bit like I did before I got sick. Lack of energy, dizziness, lack of motivation, intolerance to exertion, joint pain, reactions to food that I didn't have, heart skips, memory and concentration problems. Doctors know absolutely nothing about long covid, send to psychologists, psychologist finds nothing wrong. I wish everyone suffering from long covid a full recovery. I wish no one what a person suffering from long covid has to go through.
How are you now starting my own similiar journey
I’m so sorry you’re going through this
How are you now?? We hope you’re ok
@@joseolvera9287 Hi, thanks for asking. After my symptoms and especially POTS calmed down I got sick with covid for the second time and all the symptoms came back again. Currently, my standing pulse is 130, in addition to experiencing shortness of breath, joint, muscle, bone and back pain, dizziness, weakness. I also have allergic reactions to histamine-containing food (MCAS - mast cell activation), which manifests as full-body pain, burning skin, throat constriction, shortness of breath, weakness and flu-like symptoms in general.
and Ive had heart issues but that was something rare for me now I cant stay up to long or my heart will act up.And I been having different type of pain from sharp ,to inflammation type etc.some times in my chest
Caught COVID in December of 2021 at work from a coworker who refused to wear a mask already had low energy brain fog muscle pain and neurological issues from the vaccine after back and forth with doctors accrued big bills you would think this would be a worker’s compensation claim?
The music in the end half of chapter 7 was distracting and annoying.
When I had covid-19 a lot of bad things happened to me 1 I had a sore throat 2 I couldn't breathe I had to go to the er and they checked me and I was positive of covid then when I got home 3 I went to bed and when I woke up my body was hot 4 I had brain fm fog I was confused it was like I knew I was in my bedroom but it was like I was somewhere else I try to claim my self down because I was crying and Iris mad then that night I had horrible nightmare and I would wake up in the middle of the night and trun on my lights and play my video games intill I was tired again then I would eat grapes because they said on UA-cam if you eat them then they will help kill the covid-19 virus and I would eat all kinds of things then I take 2 phills a day it's the vaccine pillsand that's how I got over the covid-19 virus Monday morning I knew I was going back to work I was happy and healthy again 😄😁☺😊😷😷😷😀😃🙂
I had 4 shot, a nurse just got covid been around it since march 2019. Your info is the most informative then even the CD and other physicians. Thanks for telling us...what to look for and treat sounds like aspirin a day could be helpful. Pick up a bible for strength and peace thankful to you.
Maranatha.
weeks ? .. have LC about year and a half.
i got Covic-19 3 weeks after it became world news. my friend had returned from her doctorate in mexico and was a bit sick. 8 days later i was stuck in my bedroom for around 3 weeks. now with hindsight i should have gone to the hospital and gotten checked. but this was around the time where old people were starting to get it and the hospitals started to be full so we did not go. after those 3 weeks i had brainfog and shortness of breath. good thing my uni switched to doing essays instead of 4 hours of testing so i could take my time with them and make sure they where good. i was never a runner and i had childhood astmah but i could not even walk for 10 min. the brainfog lasted a while and my grades suffered but it did eventually pass. but man it was anoying.
How long did your brain fog last?
O no I went thru hell still occasional brain fog still ?
Be warned about the 4th dose (2nd booster). The virologists are not settled among themselves about whether it's a good idea or not. One of the selling points of the mRNAs was that the makers should be able to switch them up easily and cheaply. I'm hanging back like this lady, hoping to avoid the virus and wait for them to come out with one targeted at the omicron lineage.
Also, I'm redoubling my habit of taking my vitamins d & k and omega oils.
When someone is at serious risk for Covid complications. People want to walk up and breath on them. Like how youuuu🤤? Need social interaction 🤤?
Yes, I had it for 5 months and brain dysfunction was one of the worst parts. I felt like I was living in a dream. Nothing was real, not even me. Disassociation and derealization. Horrible. I still mask.
Did you get better?
@@applej3496 I did, thank God but I am not my former self. Maybe I reached 90% so I am grateful.
@@judemorales4U thank you! I’m praying I get there. I’m a month in. I want to feel joy and connect with the world again. Such a struggle. Did it go away on its own
@@applej3496 oh, I'm so sorry for you. Well I am American but live in Egypt and health care is not standard here. However, I took lactoferrin, zinc&C, vitamin 3D and a powder drink as a supplement because I could barely eat. It really tore my gut up and I still sometimes get a flare up. So I had meds for that. Apple, drink all you can and force yourself to eat if you lost your appetite as I did. I remember eating an orange and it was like eating a shoe. I pushed it down. I prayed a lot. I didn't think I would recover. As mentioned, it caused me anxiety, depression and depersonalization syndrome. I resisted anti-depressives but they may help some people. I felt so strange mentally for 2-3 months. Honey, keep going. It will go away but it could take a few months. Don't be frustrated if people don't understand what you are going through, some people recover easier than others and it may take more time for you. Be patient and be kind to yourself. You will have a couple good days and think... at last, but then it hits you again. It's so difficult. I wish you a complete and speedy recovery. If you need to talk message me here. God bless you always.
@@judemorales4U thank you so much for taking your time to share your story. I will keep faith and keep pushing through. What an inspiration to hear how well you are doing. God bless you as well and thank you for responding!
I don't know that the blood brain Barrier Is the only issue The virus can spread into the frontal cortex through the sinus passage Cat scans have shown anywhere from 2% andAnd in specific regions 6% Neuron los , Would be curious to compare the effects of a frontal laboratory To the effects of frontal lobe neuron loss caused by the virus ,
I did a bit of a double take at the start because of how similar your youtube recommandations were to mine lol.
Lol! You must have good taste 😉
No treatments for 10 or 20 years .4 months of long covid , cool im out of this planet
This will never end... we need to learn to live with it. I'm sorry..
For reference I have long covid.
Could it be social interaction that got them into this mess? Huh?
I don’t remember, I got covid.
Also this video is great education for the masses. I was looking for the answers to a few of my questions, so thank you. I still wonder if I can blame covid tho.
It's a kill shot!!!!?!?
I like that you gave Donald Trump three mouse clicks. He elicits the same reaction from me. 🙂
He being sarcastic
Things are getting better tho :)
Lemme think up a comment about cats and neurology...
"A minute of silence for all cats that gave their brains to research."
Didn't come out quite cheerful, oh well
you can try understand for Naturopathic Medicine，maybe it is solve ,to Currently and the future。
I agree with her 1000%!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👌🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Kitty, ... and other important covid stuff. jk
3:30 & 13:50 then sleep well. I hope you wake up in the morning. Bob Saget and Ray Liotta might advise you differently.
You have to be a moron to inject that
Three shots down... 1007 more shots are needed
I stopped all that BS after six months..or maybe even less...
This is even if you are vaxd or not.
Dump ALL incumbents.
You bet immune response
Your friends should just elope. I've done it twice, it's fun!
Meow, I just got COVID ☹️
It’s not covid it’s the jabs ruined my life
Cool cat! 😎🐈
the url wants to meet you for the chasm and chill
- 2:10 Do you remember when you were childishly naïve and believe in people?
- 2:44 We all? 🤨 Speak for yourself. Fortunately (?) my soul died years ago (for reasons I won't subject others to, better to not know that exists in the world 😕), so I wasn't surprised at all by the last couple of years, I knew full-well what to expect. 😒
- 3:10 People who have had to postpone plans are lucky. Many more lost everything, and even they are luckier than the ones who aren't even around anymore. 😕 "Lucky" 🤦
- 3:33 I went out more during the pandemic than in the several years before.
- 3:43 I'm so sick of people whining about being bored. There are literally _countless_ things to do, even at home. I have enough stuff on my to-do list to last numerous lifetimes. I need to find a vampire to make me immortal. 😒 Being bored isn't the same as being frustrated from not socializing. I think a lot of people conflate the two. 🤦
- 8:30 So maybe people shouldn't smoke, losing their sense of smell (and by extension, taste), is more harm smoking does.
- 9:45 Myelin is like insulation on a wire, and when it's gone, neurons short-circuit. It's fascinating that the analogy is so apt. As usual, our technology has analogs in the natural world that nature came up with billions of years earlier.
- 10:33 Insidious is the key word. People think that just because something seems to be okay after some sort of disaster, that it's "fine", but there could be all kinds of problems you just haven't noticed yet. For example, if you drop your phone in water or it gets zapped from static electricity, that it turns on doesn't mean it's fine, it might have damage you just haven't noticed yet, like the Bluetooth might not work anymore but you haven't tried to use it, or maybe the 2Ghz WiFi is broken and you didn't notice yet because you're using 5Ghz WiFi or one of the speakers is broken but you haven't used that part yet.
Likewise, just because you survive a stroke and seem to be okay, doesn't mean you haven't lost a bunch of memories you just haven't tried to access yet, or lost some words from your vocabulary that you haven't tried to use yet, or lost the ability to integrate second-order differentials. A lot of the righties who love saying "it's got a 97% survival rate" as an excuse to not take any precautions (as if a 3% mortality rate is "good" 🙄), forget that surviving doesn't mean unharmed. You could survive but come out with brain damage or lose a lung or all kinds of other permanent damage. 🤦
- 10:49 My concern is that discussing long-term effects of the virus gives righty anti-intelligence people ammunition to spout garbage about the vaccines; they're already using "we don't know about the long-term effects" as an excuse, and this could just give them precedent to say "see!!!" 😕 Worse, they'll naturally extrapolate that as "proof" of every BS argument they make like "it was made too fast" and "it's experimental", neither of which are true. 🤦 (And probably that 5G nonsense too. 🙄)
- 12:52 Of course psychosomatic illness are real, that's the whole basis of the placebo effect. ("Why Do Placebos Work?" 4ya)
- 13:24 Not a doctor? I could have sworn you got a PhD (in 2019). 🤔 Must be a Berenstein thing. 🤷
- 14:36 At the start, there were about equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans being hospitalized. Once the shots came out, almost all of the hospitalizations (of people without per-existing conditions that make them vulnerable) were Republican. Why do you think Angry Orange said "it's good, we [sic 🙄] made a good vaccine, it's a good shot, I got the shot, I think you should get it 🤷" at that rally? He was worried there wouldn't be enough people on his side left to vote for him in 2024. It didn't work, they booed him. They have _zero_ loyalty to anyone, not even their Citrus in Chief. They created a monster, and he created one back. 🤦
- 15:17 B-b-b-but, I like my brain. I use it almost every day. 😕 I got three shots, but FOX "News" says you can still get it even if vaccinated. I'm not going out anymore.
- 15:30 It's so absurd that when neurons rupture, they leak materials that is toxic to other neurons. 🤦 "Intelligent design" 🙄
- 17:12 The worst part is when anti-sanity people keep spouting "we'll have to learn to live with it, it'll become endemic" as an excuse to not take precautions against it, (1) as if it being endemic is a good thing 🙄, and (2) which makes it so much worse, because if ti's going to be around indefinitely, then all the _MORE_ reason to get the shot, like the flu shots every year!!! 🤦 Seriously, I swear, it's like they think "endemic" means "no longer serious or dangerous". 😒
- 17:29 Generally speaking (read usually, but by no means always), the pattern is that if a virus survives long enough, it will eventually evolve to be more contagious but less fatal because killing the host isn't reproductively advantageous. But then, the anti-rationality people tend not to believe in evolution anyway. 🙄
- 18:08 I _WISH_ I could play a video-game. I don't even remember the last time I did. I'm sick of people saying they've "seen everything on Netflix". Pft, whatever. I -spend- waste literally all day on just UA-cam alone. My list of TV shows and movies keeps piling up. Video-games? Books? Ha! 🙄
- 18:21 WTF good is the economy if you're too dead to make use of it? The reason that so many people have been quitting their jobs (and the media calling it a "quitation" and companies putting out passive-aggressive signs about nobody want to work anymore 🙄), is because people have reevaluated their priorities, they've realized that life is too short to waste it doing a worthless job for even a lot of money, let alone minimum-wage, that's especially true if they've lost loved ones. Who cares about the economy if you can't even breathe or if your loved ones are gone? Who cares about _anything_ then? 😒
- 19:21 I enjoyed going for a walk last year down the empty streets and feeling like it was a post-apocalyptic world. It was nice. It's kind of depressing to think that that will probably never happen again (not even when China unleashes yet another one in a few years because they weren't held accountable and learned and changed nothing, just like after the exact same situation happened in 2003).
- 19:28 Appealing to people to think of others is pointless. The people that are the problem are selfish too.
- 19:45 Wait, so you're saying cancer and car-crashes and stuff didn't have the courtesy to pause during the pandemic? 😲
- 21:45 I haven't had any reason to think I've had Covid, but I'm curious to do an antigen test to see if I've been exposed and was immune. 🤔
- 22:42 Comment about cats.
No BBB.
Wow hoping you got some help. It must be the long covid causing anger issues. It happens to lots of people. Seriously though the political bs is mixing politics with health. They don’t go together. Dementia Pres screaming at people and former Pres being gaslit by Birx the whole thing was handled incredibly poor. These neurological conditions were widely known from every other virus known. They never said a damn thing like they knew nothing about a coronavirus/respiratory virus. Look up the lit on the nih website and it’s all there. Even 4 pillars in managing a pandemic. Didn’t follow one. Total fail.
I think dr's are back logged,this isnt normal at all
They all quit because they didn't want to take vassine.
Mjau~
Scripted 🙄
I love watching all your amazing videos!! I think that it could be of use to research a service such as P-R-O-M-O-S-M.
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I didn’t guess you to ask people to get vaccinated for you🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️loved the video till you said that
Can I ask why?
It takes a very special kind of person to be this selfish to not understand that your actions can have poor consequences for other people too.
@@piripiro Unfortunately there way too many of them...
@@neurotransmissions honestly, I have opposite ideas about the vax and absolute distrust in our government. As intelligent you seem to me, your statement threw me off. 😊
@@Robsgetinlit That’s interesting… Are you saying that you’re not “against receiving a vaccine” but instead don’t believe that a vaccine exists? -and if you had proof that what you were getting 𝘸𝘢𝘴 a vaccine then you’d roll up that sleeve?
Princesses Shortcake, Snuggles and Mittens say hello to your beautiful baby...hope you're doing well ❤️ !!!
Have been in college and got COVID after lockdowns. I had severe brain fog. No one believed me. It’s helpful to have this video to link to those that doubted me
Did you beat it? And how long did it take if you did? I'm going through it right now, and I'm very worried
We got cats in 2018, and we're introverts who like hang out at home, and we're left our country of origin a year before that, so didn't have much friends closeby anyway (read: 2). All those restrictions didn't hit us that emotionally hard now that I'm looking back, however I am really grateful to have those two cats. They indeed lift up the day, and you'll see new funny situations daily.
Up until now we've managed to avoid visible covid, and same as you, I'd like it to stay that way as long as humanly possible... Neither covid nor long covid are a joke if you end up on the wrong end of the bargain :/
But I keep hearing people who were equally careful getting hit by omicron, so I doubt I'll manage to completely avoid it. However, the later, the better :)
Good wishes to everyone to not end with long covid, and to those who have them, from the bottom of my heart I wish them as fast recovery as possible!
Don't know if this is due to long COVID19 but your background music irritates me. I realize this probably doesn't bother many folks. I wish I could turn it off.
Same