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.

Thank you, LisaRenee and Emeraldwaters, makes perfect sense and quite why I thought I would be capable of running anyway is a mystery, I can barely string a sentence together at the moment let alone exercise!

I had this for the first time in my life. I felt incredibly low and sad for 2 weeks.

I was finding it hard to care about anything

So after I’ve been 7weeks sick and just starting to turn a corner, my other half comes home complaining of being ill again, soaked through with sweat and boiling hot.

A Covid rebound 😢 of course he has reinfected me with it and I am now getting all the symptoms again only slightly milder. 7 days of back to square one, I despair honestly, am so sick of feeling sick!!

Only plus is that the neurological/emotional symptoms do not seem to have made an appearance so far.

Hope everyone else is on the mend now?

Happy to update later on down the line for any new posters.

oh I'm sorry to hear that LisaRenee- I hope it's of shorter duration this time.
I can't bear the thought of another bout of this- I wonder where we're at with winter vaccines etc- I very much want one.
Can I vent!
I'm still struggling, coming up to 8 weeks Friday. Maybe rebound but I feel like it's more the first bit ongoing! (or maybe that's what rebound is?! I'm clueless)
I'm not as ill physically but still fatigued, painful teeth, very achy arms and neck and kind of shabby.
I often have pronounced wrist/hand/finger tremors which are noticeable when I hold or carry things (especially drinks!)
My mood isn't great and this is what worries me- though I think it was generally worse a few weeks ago.
I'm finding the nights awful! I find it hard to fall asleep- then sleep between 2-3 hours (nightmares) and wake up with palpitations and feeling really dark. Then I'm awake for an hour or two and then it repeats.
It's horrible and it's really hard to convince myself that this isn't just how I am.
LisaRenee, we're obviously at a similar length of time and I totally empathise with what a drag it all is.
Wishing you and your husband well.

@BustyCrustacean Oh No! Am sorry that you are struggling still also, it is a worry isn’t it! I definitely think mine is a rebound because majority of the symptoms are the same only slightly milder. I was getting a lot better until OH came home sick again, he never really rested throughout so it doesn’t surprise me that he has rebounded.

Regards the insomnia, I have been the same and I noticed that lots of people on the thread below from January have said the same thing about insomnia, nightmares and getting better, then worse again.

I would be interested to hear from anyone else on our thread here regarding how many weeks they were unwell for and whether there was any rebound or worsening of symptoms with this strain.

Sending you a big cyber hug. It’s really rotten feeling so bad.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4985908-anyone-had-covid-recently?page=2

Sorry to hear you have it again; that’s dreadful.

I had Covid the other week, and the night before I tested, I was sobbing uncontrollably both with the headache (and the unfortunate timing of my period & the accompanying pain) and just an overwhelming sense of sadness and despair. My husband was so worried as he’d never seen me like that before. We were both relieved when I tested positive the next day.

Following that, I had a week of very low mood and a feeling like I was going to be miserable forever. Luckily that has since lifted, but I had to drag myself out of it. Weirdly though, I’ve had horrible joint pains after exercise that I don’t normally experience and have found exercise a slog…even the long walks I usually love left me exhausted and sore.

Thanks for that January thread LisaRenee- it does help to know that others find insomnia to be a big feature of this

Yes, @FourForYouGlenCoco1 the sadness totally freaked me out. I was on a plane sitting with my 18 yr old son to my right, a stranger to my left and me letting tears tears cascade down my face!! I would never normally subject my son to that. I told him later I had covid- he said, "no kidding"!
I'm glad you're no longer in those depths but certainly the aches are rough- I just tore up a cardboard box and my arms, Jeez, they hurt!

Sympathies to everyone on this thread. Three weeks into Covid and still utterky exhausted. Did a little work Friday first time in a week and it's utterly wiped me out. I'm self employed and have had to cancel 2 weeks work. I'm now hugely anxious this is me for ever. Just been sobbing as feel so ill again. Am on Sertraline already which keeps me well usually. Had thought the anxiety and pessimism was a response to the last three weeks. Now I wonder if it's both. Really struggling not panic all the time.

Three weeks in and still.feel bad physically - sore throat, tickly cough, headache and severe fatigue if I do anything at all. Now major anxiety and low mood.

I had Covid from the beginning of August for about 4/5 weeks . It was really really bad . Sore throat / jelly legs / sinus / anxiety / panic attacks / insomnia etc . However I highly recommend getting back to some exercise asap . As soon as my legs recovered I went back as it really helped with the terrible anxiety . I had to have some Valium prescribed on week 3 I was in such a state . I also took steroids to clear my sinus issues and after taking them and two valiums over two days , it kind of lifted and I felt ok again .
the THOUGHTS of catching it again gives me the horrors , so you have my sympathies xxx I am on a plane this weekend and I plan to wear a mask fully for the time I am on it - I just can’t face it again 😫

I have found my thread!

Currently 5 days in to Covid, and as you can see by the time of this post, the insomnia is hitting me hard. I feel like I've had every symptom on the list, bed/sofa bound for days and then my body not being able to properly rest and sleep it off is sending me spiralling. My brain won't switch off, old anxieties creeping in, just feel in a complete panic.
Hope everyone else on here is seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Just reading this thread has made me feel less alone.

Yes me, and every time too. It has been horrendous.

Still awake here now nearly 3 hours on, not a single minute of sleep the whole night. Anxiety is through the roof, that I'll feel ill forever and never sleep again. Already anxious about whether I'll be able to sleep tonight and scared to nap today in case I ruin my chances. My husband started with symptoms last night, just a slight sniffle and sleeping like a log (a noisy one). So unfair😭

What a useful thread! The malaise and existential dread I felt during Covid was unlike anything I had ever experienced. And don't start me on the insomnia. I was very, very, low. Interesting to know that I wasn't the only one. (Any research or data on this? I haven't rtft, sorry)

oh goodness sorry to see so many feeling the same- but hope it's some solace that this has to be covid and not us going completely mad!
I'm now 9 weeks in- physically ok with the exception of fatigue and the odd ache.
Mentally- it's taking a while and the sleep's still worse than normal- admittedly it's often not great.
I have actually managed to exercise- which sounds odd given the fatigue but was so fed up with feeling crap moodwise.
I'm definitely way less fit than I was- it was a low bar, but still! I can tell therefore that I'm still recovering and that actually makes me feel better- it explains mood and sleep issues.
On balance I'm not as bad as I was- it's just that it's gradual with some false dawns that can make me feel I'm trapped in it.
I know it will go- but yes, the anxiety and existential dread are a definite component of this
Will get vaccine this winter- can't cope with this again

I know what you mean re catching it again... am wearing a mask in the supermarket and train now. Really don't want to go through this again.

Four weeks in, physical symptoms are improving which is helping with the anxiety, but mood is dreadful. F£%king horrible virus.

I really relate to all this. Awful to feel so stressed and miserable as well as ill and it can go on for a really long time.

Me either, but my body was floored.

Then I got shingles just after. Thought it was just sore underboob and tried to carry on.
Nope.

Floored again.

Covid weakens immune systems.

Mood worse today.

Thank you for posting these experiences everyone. They've made me feel better, knowing I'm not alone, or imagining the anxiety, sadness, from the virus

I'm four weeks in and I'm just not getting better and this evening I cannot stop crying 😭😭😭

Colouringindoors

I'm sorry you're feeling so awful. But hope it helps to know it's affected others like this

Thank you

This a million times, I had this after my first vaccine dose and it was way before you could blame the vaccine out loud. Every time I've had covid since I get a less extreme version of the effects of that first vaccine. I'm so please to read someone else had the same effects and that I wasn't just going mad as HCPs tried to make it out to be at the time.

With the vaccines/ actual covid these symptoms along with headaches have been the main issue for me along with tiredness, I've not had the awful coughing etc.

Sorry to hear of everyones struggles, while I'm good a lot of the time I do sometimes wonder if I'll ever be back to the same person I was before.