Living with the ups and downs of long covid symptoms.
"Are you better now? I'm regularly asked. It is a difficult thing to admit that no, since having covid in October 2022, I am still living with on-going symptoms. My lovely GP has gently told me that four months of symptoms isn't actually that long in terms of covid, which feels both reassuring and frustrating. All I want is to get better and soon. But there is no hurrying the process along. The trouble with not getting better after this length of time is that post-viral fatigue starts to be described as a type of long covid (of which there are a few different forms). When I first heard "long covid" being applied to my health a few weeks ago, it didn't really help! Countless hours were spent either worrying about how long this was going to last for or frantically trying to work out what to do. My sleep became disrupted and every time a new minor symptom appeared, I would worry further. Physical and mental fatigue remain my constant companions. And som