The body can become stuck in a state of overreaction or faulty signals while the brain can be trained to let go of symptoms. People can experience severe, chronic fatigue that immobilizes limbs and causes intense physical pain. Other dominant symptoms include brain fog, insomnia, respiratory and digestive problems, often occurring in varying constellations. Long-Covid commonly triggers frustrating medical encounters that range from being believed but offered no meaningful explanations to being dismissed entirely. Those experiences produce mounting anxiety, hopelessness and isolation. Recovery often begins when individuals gain an understanding of the bodily processes driving their symptoms.
For some, fatigue can be a dark force that seems to settle in the body - intense, unbearable and unrelenting. You feel a heavy weight that makes it impossible to lift an arm or move a leg without incredible effort. You pay dearly for any such movements through the currency of intense physical pain. For others, the most dominant symptom may be brain fog, insomnia, respiratory issues or digestive issues.
Something most people with long-Covid have in common is an experience within the medical system that leaves us scratching our heads, with a knot of anxiety growing in our stomachs. It is an experience, at best, of being believed and seen but with no explanation available for our predicament - with a spattering of pharmacology to throw at our range of symptoms.
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