Thread by @SalvMattera

I continue to remain 90-95% recovered from my Long COVID. But what did I recover from? I went back through my symptom journals, and here's a list of all the Long COVID symptoms I had at one point then recovered from:

Heart palpitations. Sometimes they would last literally all day, like 16 hours. And occur in different parts of my body (legs, neck). It really used to freak me out, to the point where I wouldn't even tell my doctors how bad it was.

Numbness, tinging and odd sensations in my hands and feet. Sometimes specific fingers would go numb for hours. With my feet, I'd feel like someone was touching them with their fingers, or if I had stepped on a bug.

Tendonitis in my right elbow and right hand. I've had tendonitis issues from weightlifting in the past, but typically, it would gradually resolve over time. But not Long COVID tendonitis - it would come and go. One day would be bad, the next fine, and the day after bad again

General dizziness and feeling lightheaded for hours. Not like POTS dizziness that gets triggered on standing. Just a general dizziness that might last the better part of a day

PEM-like energy crashes. All of a sudden I would feel like I'd been hit by bus and would need to lay down for several hours and try not to die.

Blurry vision. Things would look sort of color-shifted. Often occurred following exertion.

Weird TMJ pain and odd sensations in my jaw muscles. I've had TMJ issues since I was a teenager, but this was different.

Caffeine intolerance. Drinking more than half a cup of coffee would give me horrible chest pain, almost like an allergic reaction.

Feeling like my back had "blown out" and not being able to walk comfortably for several days every month because of terrible lower back pain. I think triggered by a muscle spasm. Had to spend a few months sitting with a heating bad most days.

One time I had a panic attack.

Pain in various parts of my body. Honestly, this was probably the worst of all my symptoms. Pain in my neck. Excruciating chest pain. Pain in my sides. Occasionally, I felt like my entire body was in pain, as if I had been struck by lightning. Would last hours

Muscle twitching and tics throughout my body. Almost every day a different muscle would twitch off and on for the entire day. Lasted several months.

If you lift weights, there's this thing called delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) which is when your muscles ache bad a day or two after lifting weights. I would get that feeling occasionally in random muscles for no reason

I'd feel like I was going downhill on a rollercoaster (like where your stomach drops in your chest) sometimes just walking around my house

Bouts of nausea that didn't last too long, but would hit me for about an hour almost every day

One time the left side of my face went numb for several hours. Had to go to the ER for that. Think it was caused by a Pfizer COVID shot as it occurred a couple days after

Other pain symptoms I forgot: feeling like an elephant was sitting on my chest for hours. Stabbing pain in my upper back. Pain in my right shoulder that turned out to be a torn labrum. Burning pain in my toes. Burning pain I my abdomen.

Hearing in the left ear would frequently go out. Still sometimes occurs, and I think it did even before I ever got COVID, but there was a period where it was occurring every single day for minutes at a time

Episodes of air hunger. Would just be sitting at my desk and all of a sudden I would feel like I couldn't breath for 10 or 15 minutes. No matter how times it happened, I would always panic a bit when it did, which probably made it worse

I felt like someone was choking me or trying to strangle me. Probably inflammation in my neck

General feeling of fatigue in the background every day, all day. Like my battery was drained.

I was still able to exercise through most it, but I couldn't do as much exercise as before. I would always get oddly exhausted before the end of a workout I used to be able to handle without issue.

Think that's everything, but I may be missing things. Looking back, I think I've blocked out most of this from my memory. I only found it digging through old symptom journals.