My Long COVID Story: What Finally Helped Me Recover (Not Medical Advice)
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My Long COVID Story: What Finally Helped Me Recover (Not Medical Advice)

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 2, 202641 min
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Pre-order ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten and discover how hormones shape focus, motivation, executive function, and emotional regulation ⁠http://drbrighten.com/adhdandwomen In early 2020, my life completely changed when I contracted COVID-19. As a doctor, I thought I knew what to expect—but my symptoms didn't look like anything on the news. Instead of a cough or high fever, I experienced a subtle, terrifying decline in my ability to breathe. When I finally went to the ER, a physician stood across the parking lot and told me to get my affairs in order. But tha...

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Back in early 2020, I got sick with what we would later know as COVID-19. And the really strange thing about how this story began is that I didn't have the typical symptoms that everyone was talking about. So I never developed a cough. I never had a high fever. Instead, it was this gradual onset of difficulty breathing. And not because

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it felt like I couldn't get the oxygen into my lungs. I could. It just felt like I couldn't get the oxygen to where it needed to go. And day by day, it was becoming harder to breathe. And when I was living at the time, there was Sargazm, there were other things going on that I started to tell myself stories. Like, because this was so subtle, maybe it was because of the Sargazm.

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That's a type of seaweed that puts off really awful smell, but awful gas as well. Then I thought like, you know, maybe I just need to rest more. Maybe I'm burning the candle at both maybe this is some kind of anxiety. And then it became impossible to ignore.

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