#Coronavirus after effects how to
"I couldn't process how to read the menu, the words weren't making sense, I could see them but couldn't understand what was on the page."Įven more so than COVID-19, long COVID is in its infancy as a disease and the large variety of symptoms are making a cause hard to pin down.Ī study published by the National Institute for Health Research said long COVID could be a combination of four different syndromes affecting the body at the same time. His concerned parents visited him and took him, by car, to a restaurant. Mr Brown got signed off work by his GP for a month in September and says there were times when he could not even call his mother because picking up the phone was too much.īy week three, he had to buy a walking stick to leave the house, and said: "If I walked too far I'd get aches in my quads and my femurs felt like lead." "By Thursday, I could walk slowly but I was in a Zoom meeting and just burst into tears for no reason - that weekend I was bed bound." "I just had to stay in bed and I would get breathless rolling over in bed. "One weekend I went for a 10km walk and felt fine, then the next day we hired bikes and went around London, stopping every half an hour as they're only free for that time, but did about 17km."īy the Wednesday, after two busy days at work plus a night of being on-call, he "completely crashed". "After six months back at work, I'd get home and my partner would have to cook for me as I couldn't cope.
Mr Brown said a few of his colleagues who had COVID-19 were also getting drops in energy every one or two weeks, but they put it down to working hard during the pandemic.
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