Page 3 | Severe emotional distress with Covid? August 2024.

LisaRenee · 2024-08-23T17:32:43+00:00

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.

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 29/08/2024 22:50

Can I ask - does anybody know home remedies for this because my DS is struggling with severe anxiety and food intolerance and if it's actually systemic inflammation then we really could do with some tips about how to fix it.

lavenderboux · 29/08/2024 22:52

I'm sorry you're feeling like this, OP. It is rubbish. My mental health has been in the gutter every time I've had Covid. And I'm usually quite a chirpy & bubbly person. Sending big warm hugs xx

StuckOnTheCeiling · 29/08/2024 22:56

Wow, thanks for posting this OP. I had a real struggle with anxiety a few months ago, I just felt utterly drained, would go to bed as early as I could and just lie in the dark shaking, not quite a panic attack but on the edge of one. After a while I felt a lot better, and looking back I was ill around the time it started so that was probably covid. I hadn’t been able to work out what made it come on so suddenly, this makes a lot of sense!

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 30/08/2024 06:17

I wondered if I could ask a question about this?

If these symptoms are brain inflammation, then should that get better with over the counter anti-inflammatories, and would paracetamol work?

I just wondered because my DC has been out of school for nearly a year with these symptoms and if it was as simple as needing paracetamol to take down inflammation that would really be very good to know.

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 30/08/2024 06:21

Oh, I just read online and it seems to be ibuprofen that is anti-inflammatory and you can get nurofen ibuprofen suppositories for people who can't manage it because of gastro symptoms.

@LisaRenee have you tried taking ibuprofen by any chance? I just wondered if it might take the edge off, if the symptoms really are brain inflammation, as people are saying.

WalkingCarpet · 30/08/2024 08:19

Brain inflammation for a year sounds like PANS/PANDAS
I suggest you look into it.
I think I have an adult version.

Anonym00se · 30/08/2024 08:21

I always feel really emotional with Covid, and burst into tears at the drop of a hat. It’s weird because I very rarely cry. Hope you’re feeling better soon.

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 30/08/2024 09:16

WalkingCarpet · 30/08/2024 08:19

Brain inflammation for a year sounds like PANS/PANDAS
I suggest you look into it.
I think I have an adult version.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's a bit hard to tell. DC is diagnosed as ASD/trauma. I will read about it and have a ponder.

Lizzbear · 30/08/2024 10:02

I've been feeling really emotional and quite desperate for the past few weeks. I also thought that I might have had covid recently.
Thanks for your post op, I now feel they may be connected.
Let's hope we feel more normal soon x

crazyunicornlady73 · 30/08/2024 10:39

Oh yes the anxiety, depression and general tearfulness, tiredness and feeling of not coping with life have been awful after every bout. Much worse than the actual period of being "ill" the first time I was really worried until I compared notes with others and realised I was still experiencing Covid symptoms. Other times I have felt a little bit reassured because I understand that this is how Covid plays out for me...it's horrible though.

nnjj · 30/08/2024 14:03

I didn't want the covid jabs but was forced into it as we traveled during covid.

We had to have two jabs. After both I was beyond paranoid. I was checking, double checking and triple checking that all the doors and windows were locked in our home.

Additionally, I felt the same unexplained heartbreak that a PP spoke about.

Weird.

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 30/08/2024 14:11

I'm so relieved that it's not just me. I also had palpitations after having the jab and then delta in quick succession. During the palpitations I totally lost track of time and thought that three days had passed when it was only one. Weird stuff. Alarmingly I had to keep working while doing that and I was remote so none of my colleagues could see that I was a bit loopy.

OneChirpyWriter · 02/09/2024 17:46

Omg. I've felt rough for the last 10 days. Started with feeling low and tearful and jittery then nausea and diarrhoea and no appetite. Now I'm so weak and exhausted. I haven't tested but now I'm thinking it's covid!

OneChirpyWriter · 02/09/2024 18:43

Saucery · 23/08/2024 20:26

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

Saucery I feel exactly the same. Anxiety and low mood and upset stomach are awful

OneChirpyWriter · 02/09/2024 19:48

LisaRenee · 23/08/2024 22:43

@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.

Omg this is how I'm feeling. Anxious,jumpy,very emotional etc

BustyCrustacean · 05/09/2024 12:54

can I ask how long people's symptoms have lasted?

I'm now coming up to 6 weeks and still feel grotty physically- though nothing like I was
But my sleep and the anxiety seems to have taken another dive over the past week! Does this happen- 2 steps forwards, one back type of thing?
I'm not as depressed but it's still there
I had a couple of nights' normal sleep so am very frustrated that the difficulty dropping off, constant waking, palpitations, nightmares are back!
I really want to exercise but I haven't got the will- I just wonder if it would help- should I try or would a run send me backwards?
(I'm not a big exerciser normally but I know it works wonders when I do bother and I so want feel better)

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:23

sonjadog · 23/08/2024 22:47

The time I got tinnitus, my anxiety was extreme for a few weeks and I felt like I was losing my sanity. I ended up on a low dose of anti-depressives for a few months, but that was also to help deal with the tinnitus. All in all, it was a horrible time. But it did pass in the end.

Tinnitus really sucks. I have it already and whenever I get a bout of Covid it does flare up. So far it has not settled down either.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:29

Cloxs · 25/08/2024 16:01

Yes! I’m a couple weeks in, tested negative about 5 days ago and that was the main symptom for me initially - total sobbing depression like I only ever had with PND - still struggling, so exhausted and get fluey feelings if I do anything much. I have been able to actually get off the couch the last 3 days and did some errands yesterday but I felt pretty awful. Attempted to build my LO new rebounder and broke in a sweat and shaking. I thought I had it loads this year but tbh didn’t test positive apart from this time around, and last time confirmed was last April. I hate this virus. How are you going now?

The depressive episodes are really terrifying. Sorry to hear that you were the same. It's been a week or two now since I last posted and I have definitely improved though not enough to be be bouncing around as usual. I went straight into a period and then ovulation too after I last posted so I think my body is tired and a bit confused. I feel less depressive now and just replaced with a generalised low mood and very very slight anxiety. Still exhausted and needing a daily nap but not extreme fatigue. Also feel hormonally very hot and flushy. The aches and pains and headaches have completely gone now.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:35

baroqueandblue · 25/08/2024 16:19

It has done me in mentally/emotionally, OP. I estimate I've had it a good 3 weeks or more at this point, and the crying jags have come and gone at times but now I just feel deathly depressed. In fact, reading your thread today has convinced me I'm not just inexplicably depressed (with very morose thoughts). It could well be the covid, although I haven't tested - I'm self-diagnosing based on symptoms and past experience. Today I have been thinking my life is pointless and not worth living! And although I can go there from time to time, this has hit me like a juggernaut out of nowhere, the intensity I mean. I'm exhausted, my body aches in places I didn't even know I had, and I'm really having to force myself to be bothered to eat. Breathing has been 'foggy' the last 3 or 4 days, gums ache, face feels woefully tired, bladder aches, but most of all I could scream with existential misery - not because I'm ill, but because the pleasure has been drained from everything!

How are you doing today, any improvement in mood at all?

Oh bless you, am sorry you feel so rotten too. I had all of those symptoms. I am through the very worst of it I think but have been left with post viral fatigue, some hormonal imbalances and a generalised low mood. Also my tinnitus is still going strong and I still look very peaky. I have also had a weird flare up of my contact dermatitis on one hand which has now spread to the other hand (never had it there before) it has started to resemble eczema and is dried cracked and itchy with a peeling going on and has spread to my wrists and hip. Very odd symptoms. 6-7 weeks in now and it has been grim. I hope you feel much better soon .

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:39

BustyCrustacean · 27/08/2024 12:42

oh my goodness- thank you for posting this- I thought I was done for!
I've only skim read the thread but can see my awful symptoms mirrored back at me- such a relief.
the exhaustion and physical symptoms- sore throat, profound nausea, headache are deeply unpleasant but, Jeez, it's the emotional symptoms
I dread the nights now as insomnia bad and nightmares dreadful- then waking up with palpitations, anxiety (so jumpy) and a bleakness that makes me want to end it all!
I'm going to read the thread properly now as it is comforting- misery loving company and all that
I'm coming up to 5 weeks of symptoms
hadn't bothered to have booster- (I will now!)
Commiserations, Op, and here's to a full recovery for all us (I'd say speedy but I think that ship's sailed!)

I turned a corner around 5.5 weeks but got my period at 6 weeks and then ovulation so I think the added inflammation and hormones can knock you back a bit too. I hope you feel much better soon.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:41

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 29/08/2024 22:49

Yes I had this too. Extreme anxiety first time and deep deep sadness with the recent one. Also sometimes since having long covid twice, I often get the sadness with just any other virus. It's as if I'm getting a flare up of covid symptoms even though it is a different virus.

It's really awkward because I can be in the middle of a zoom work meeting and suddenly I feel as though I will just start sobbing, and it's nothing but a mild virus starting.

I also had the neurological crazy feelings that one of the first previous posters mentioned as though I was going nuts after the vaccine. Fortunately it went away, but I definitely did not have a second one after that.

That is a very scary response to a vaccine. I haven't had any shots and I don't intend to because I just know I would be one of the unfortunate cases where I have a bad reaction to it.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:47

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 29/08/2024 22:50

Can I ask - does anybody know home remedies for this because my DS is struggling with severe anxiety and food intolerance and if it's actually systemic inflammation then we really could do with some tips about how to fix it.

I have just started to take a fermented cod liver oil supplement and a vitamin D supplement. The fermented oil is supposed to work wonders on brain and systemic inflammation because of the fermentation process. I am going to stay on it for 3 months plus cut out any sugars and ultra processed foods and focus on whole foods and staying hydrated. Also a good pro biotic would be a good place to start. For the anxiety look on you tube for somatic body based exercises to calm the nervous system for anxiety. They don't look like much use but somatic body work is very effective. Hope he feels better soon, poor thing.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:49

ItIsSoVeryComplicated · 30/08/2024 06:21

Oh, I just read online and it seems to be ibuprofen that is anti-inflammatory and you can get nurofen ibuprofen suppositories for people who can't manage it because of gastro symptoms.

@LisaRenee have you tried taking ibuprofen by any chance? I just wondered if it might take the edge off, if the symptoms really are brain inflammation, as people are saying.

Hi there. I can't take Ibuprofen unfortunately but you could try it and see? Otherwise I am focusing on a whole food diet, hydration, pro biotics and fermented cod liver oil for brain and systemic inflammation, 3 months and see how I feel after that.

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LisaRenee · 05/09/2024 19:54

BustyCrustacean · 05/09/2024 12:54

can I ask how long people's symptoms have lasted?

I'm now coming up to 6 weeks and still feel grotty physically- though nothing like I was
But my sleep and the anxiety seems to have taken another dive over the past week! Does this happen- 2 steps forwards, one back type of thing?
I'm not as depressed but it's still there
I had a couple of nights' normal sleep so am very frustrated that the difficulty dropping off, constant waking, palpitations, nightmares are back!
I really want to exercise but I haven't got the will- I just wonder if it would help- should I try or would a run send me backwards?
(I'm not a big exerciser normally but I know it works wonders when I do bother and I so want feel better)

Yes it is very backwards and forwards, it would seem many people do experience feeling better then getting much worse again. I think you should prioritise rest and nutrition and hydration. Definitely don't push the exercise. I hope you feel better soon. I am now on week 7 and still have lingering symptoms so I am taking my time .

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Emeraldwaters · 05/09/2024 20:22

'Yes it is very backwards and forwards, it would seem many people do experience feeling better then getting much worse again. I think you should prioritise rest and nutrition and hydration. Definitely don't push the exercise. I hope you feel better soon. I am now on week 7 and still have lingering symptoms so I am taking my time .'

Sound advice. It's hard as exercise can often make us feel better, but seems the reverse plays out when trying to recover from covid. Many feel exertion pushed them into long covid. Take things slower than you think you need to.