u/Glad_Tangerine_4338

So, I'm a doctor who was going into a surgical residency when I caught Covid at work. I've tried to get back to work for almost 2 years now, but I keep crashing. I have now been on full sick leave since 3 months and realize my low capacity. I was a very active skier and biked to work every day but now I can only walk about 4 km daily without PEM (some days much less).

Me and my wife are grieving the life we had and the city life with all the required energy it takes to even be a part of work and social life is such misery.

We are renting out our aptm and moving to the countryside for a year or two. We feel so stuck chasing a cure like this. Medical care haven't done shit for me except some sleeping pills because it can't cure a complex condition like this. I need to slow down an already slow life, but I need to relax as best I can. It's hard with all these pains, fatigue, migraines, dysautonomia etc, but what other alternative is there? Atleast then I can watch the birds sing and the seasons change without the ambition and noise of the city giving med headaches (literally).

I need to find a baseline and stay there, this push and crash and full on misery looking and hoping for some cure is making me sicker. My wife said she has had enough seeing me in this much pain.

Did anyone try a 180 and simplified their lives? How do you handle the guilt of being cared for? My wife's income is all we will have once social security tries to force me into work again and I say no.

Hello everyone!

So, since the infection I've had many symptoms but will focus on this one right now because it's the most consistent one for me to keep an eye on; it seems to be the one symptom that signifies some weird shit going on in my nervous system. I have an internal vibration in the back of my head that goes down my spine, and on bad days my muscles too. It is some kind of dysautonomia. It ramps up after exercise and when it does, I know a crash is coming. As soon as I "relax", I can feel it and it feels like this electrical circuit that is faulty, if you know what I mean. I now rely on sleep medication because of it.

Over the soon 2 years of illness, this one symptom hasn't changed, which makes me wonder if it's some kind of permanent neurological injury. I also have restless legs with this symptom, which I never had before in my life. It makes me wonder if my dopamine neurons are damaged since I'm stiff in the muscles as well. However, did anyone experience this, and what in the world can be done about it, except pacing?

Also, I've had my share of stress in life, but this seems to be there regardless of me being in a wonderful headspace or not.

This thing is keeping me from working and exercising. I've tried pushing through this thing, but the last time I did that I crashed pretty hard. Since then I'm on sick leave from work. I improve very slowly by doing nothing basically, but what kind of rehab is that?

Anyone with similar issues? Advice or even sympathy would be appreciated. Covid really did a number on us, damn.

Hello guys! So, I have been painting minis for some years and am ready for an airbrush for the obvious reasons. I do also make spoons, trays etc using carving and other woodworking techniques. Ideally I would like to buy an airbrush that would be decent for both endeavors. Do you kind souls have any suggestions? Also, the airbrush doesn't have to be the smallest/most exact one one in terms of using it for miniatures, I will mostly be using it for priming and zenithal highlights. Thank you!

Hello!

I was hit by insane burning headaches 3 weeks after testing positive. This was 18 months ago. I also lost my sense of smell in the same week. Since then these headaches come and go but are present 70% of the time with a month here and there without them. I tried pushing through at work but it makes it much worse and lands me in bed for a week. Anyone else suffering from this?

Symptoms:

Bilateral burning headaches. Worsened by activity.

Lower leg paresthesias

More frequent migraines

Loss of smell - regained only maybe 10% now.

Exercise intolerance

Sleep disturbances

Inner vibrations

So obviously a long covid phenotype. Looking for others who has developed headaches after covid that doesn't fit with any other headache type; not migraines, not tension type etc.

I'm sorry for anyone suffering, this is truly terrible!