Your Covid recovery

[Rainydays55]

For those of you who have had it can you share any tips on how you got back to normal… I know the advice is to not rush things as symptoms can then come back a week or so later? Did you gradually ease back into work / exercise etc? At what point did you feel half normal again?

I’m day 14 and not yet back to normal, though I can function, do most things but feel pretty tired, tiny bit of smell coming back, still very bunged up and a low level head ache. But yesterday I felt really good, so I suspect I overdone it and am paying for it today. I also had an awful nights sleep last night so that didnt help, in fact throughout covid I never really had a good nights sleep. I’m taking vitamin c, vitamin d and zinc. I do t know what the answer is but wish recovery is quick. I went into work today for few hours this morning and fell asleep this afternoon , a few people at work have covid and they have so far been off longer than me. But I was driving myself mad staying at home, I naively thought after 10 days I’ll be fine.

I've decided on this combo (I take the vits all the time):

Zinc and Vit C
Vit D
A pro-biotic
3 small 'well rounded' meals to avoid overloading digestive system (was causing me to space out for 45 mins after eating) + 2 fruit snacks
Loads of water - seem to be really thirsty
Bed by 10pm (this is v early for me)
Leaving work at 4 and going to the steam room and for a drift/swim then hot tub every day - hope this will clear head-stuffiness/general bod aches
Stretching every morning - helped last week with my achey legs
Lots of sitting down at work (primary teacher, so easier said than done) but half hour outside during the school day to get some fresh air - I feel better for being out in the air
I've also planned a relatively easy week mentally at work (although things went to shit on that one by 8.30 this morning)

We'll see. My MIL is a week ahead of me and equally an 'illness denier' - she went back to the gym yesterday as normal. Hoping I can do the same.

First few days felt odd/getting ill so we hit the strong vitamin D like our lives depended on it, followed by full on no taste/smell/brain fog and an itchy sensation like bugs all over me for 3 days. Day 4-5 got the cough but a friend in the know dropped a little bag of some skunk through the letter box for us to inhale when our chests got tight using an infuser which stopped the feeling as it relaxes the lungs and opens the airways so the coughing was managable (not sure if I just didn't notice/care as I was stoned but only needed it for 2 days). Brain fog and lesser cough persisted for a week or so after but we waited a while before going out. From the start 10 days until feeling really "better", 15 days total until we ventured out.

We hit the vitamin D like demons through out the whole time, big doses (4k Iu) twice a day. Only other advice is eat well even though you might not want to (pre frozen home made soup is great with frozen bread in toaster), to sleep when you need to and don't do anything strenuous whilst ill. You are not going anywhere until better so don't even try to do things, not even washing up, wash a plate if needed, sleep in smelly bed.

Oh and whisky helps you sleep, hot toddies are heaven sent.

Thank you for your responses :-) tomorrow will be day 13 for me so I just want to try and not over do it if I have a few hours feeling ok but at the same time need fo try and slowly try and get some energy levels half back! Im taking vitamin d tablets and vit c/zinc drink… pro biotics @RuleWithAWoodenFoot not taken these before - any recommendations?