Severe emotional distress with Covid? August 2024.

[LisaRenee]

So… third time round with this bugger Covid (ding ding) every time I’ve had it I have experienced a bout of low mood, crying spells, anxiety attacks…unpleasant, but this time round…my god I feel on the edge.

Has this strain affected any other women so aggressively? I cannot shake the depressive feelings three weeks in, still breaking down in tears for an hour or so over nothing, feel real despair, awful low mood and lingering joint pains, severe fatigue, sore gums and tinnitus.

No real fevers or gastro stuff this time, seems more achy, extreme exhaustion and neurological and emotional in nature. I’m looking for reassurance that it is in-fact the Covid making me feel like this and I’m not stark raving mad! And please tell me it subsides, 3 weeks in is deeply unpleasant.

This happened to me after my 3rd Covid booster, 18 months ago - I had anxiety that felt like I was dying of a heart attack, and intermittently had a strong sense that everything in my nervous system had gone haywire and I might actually be going mad. It was terrifying at first but quickly became less intense and finally resolved after about 3 months.

Sorry OP, that sounds really hard. This is not that uncommon. Hope it resolves itself soon.

Yes. It was horrendous and I'm just coming out of it

Yes, felt suicidal for about 24 hours. Like I had had my heart broken or something. So bizarre. I hope you feel better soon x

Inflammation does that to many people - many with autoimmune disease have it as one of the first signs of a flare. Good doctors/hospital teams don't rush t the antidepressants because they've seen people like it one minute, give them a long acting steroid injection and then they're perfectly fine within a couple of hours.

Yes! Horrible.

Yes I had COVID last Xmas for the second time ( first time was newly jabbed and symptom free pretty much) and I was floored by the fatigue, light headedness and extreme anxiety. It was horrible.

Neither of my COVID infections have given me cold or cough or gastro symptoms in the slightest.

Me!! Had covid in January this year and genuinely thought I would never be the same again - like you, I felt total despair, horribly anxious, just could not cope at all. But as I recovered it got better and I was back to normal within a few weeks. It's awful but it does pass!

Same here. And as an added Fuck You it messed with my menstrual cycle all three times, resetting my period, making it longer. I never suffer much with cold symptoms, but the tinnitus, anxiety, palpitations and weepiness are off the scale every time.
Hope you are soon on the mend OP, it really sucks

Covid really sucks.

And yes, it has neuro effects

Hello OP. I’m 5 days into my 2nd bout of Covid, OH is at day 8. At first we thought it was a summer cold and that all the other weird stuff was down to stress as my 85 yo DF had a stroke last week. When I got really bad on Monday we decided to buy tests and sure enough it’s Covid.

We have both experienced a lot of anxiety, uncontrollable racing thoughts when trying to sleep and emotional disruption. It’s reassuring for me that OH is experiencing this too as he is usually incredibly laid back and can sleep hanging by a toenail from a clothes line. I beyond fatigued at the moment. I did experience this kind of thing first time and it did settle after a few weeks.

I hope that it passes for you soon and you feel better.

Wow that sounds terrifying @Bunnyhair I have not been vaxxed, that sounds awful, three months! Am glad you were able to rebalance eventually.

@violetsparkle Am sorry it got you too :( Am very glad though that you are coming out of it. How long did it take roughly?

I had a weird thing where I was very jumpy. I’m not a jumpy person normally, but any noise and I was leaping out of my skin. It was very uncharacteristic for me.
I also felt very depressed with it. Thankfully as soon as the virus left, I went back to normal.

Yes! Absolutely terrifying. I was about ready to walk out on my life because everything was wrong and what am I even doing anymore..this is definitely not just a cold @BlameGamer

@NeverDropYourMooncup Really? that's interesting..I have Fibro so am used to the pain getting much worse and fatigue in covid but never this emotionally unhinged! I was saying to my husband that it feels like some sort of brain inflammation, i was fine one minute and the next just hysterical. I wander whether it is worse this time round because I have been through a very stressful period just prior and my nervous system was probably jacked to a hundred already

So horrible @scorchia

@ladygindiva It is the pits

@Mattietoes Thank you so much for this, the feeling of never being the same again and just staring into space for hours in agony is really not nice. Am glad you are back to yourself.

Yes. I was getting over an operation and feeling much better then caught Covid (not really badly but I felt very unwell) and I felt quite tearful, now I've got joint pains which is making me miserable two weeks after testing negative.

@Saucery It really does suck, it's bizarre and like you it messed up my periods as well. Very crampy and heavy and irregular afterwards.

I have had covid four times now, and twice I have had bad anxiety for a few weeks afterwards. I also got tinnitus after the second time which got a lot better after a couple of months, but which I still have to a moderate degree.

It is unpleasant, but it will pass.

@MamaBobo Oh the racing thoughts are just awful, I keep seeing things in my peripheral vision that aren't there too, last night getting some water I could swear I saw a man in the doorway and it frightened the bejesus out of me, my heart was racing for 20 minutes after. My OH never seems to suffer with covid, I don't recall him ever having any anxiety or low mood and seems to bounce back after 5-6 days of mild symptoms usually.

@Jifmicroliquid Yes! That is exactly how I am so jumpy and easily startled with horrible depression. Am reassured that it finally eased off for you, when you're in the thick of it feels like it won't.