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Antoine
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 8 months
- Published
- Nov 2022
Summary
Antoine tested positive for COVID in May 2021, then had severe heart pain, electrical sensations and light-headedness on standing; at worst he crawled to the toilet. He credits mental health support from Amy most, with meditation, daily self-talk and gradually pushing his activity. He began improving around the turn of the year and by spring 2022 said he was back to health, running and training his kids in soccer.
This summary is short because we could not read the full page, only the details recorded about it. The original has the rest.
Read it in their words
positivelycovid.org — a recovery advocacy site.
What they tried
Credits Alternative therapies, Brain retraining, Mind-body practices, Pacing, Brain retraining programs (DNRS, Gupta, ANS Rewire, Primal Trust), CBT and psychotherapy, Graded exercise / graded activity, Meditation, yoga, breathwork.
What they credit
Also tried
Approaches: Alternative therapies · Brain retraining · Mind-body practices · Pacing
Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, in the order they describe; the account doesn’t give enough times to place each step. Hover a point to see what happened and what they link it to. Open dots mark a change they link to a treatment, orange ones a setback. 3 steps say too little to place on the scale and are only in the table. What the levels mean.
Show as a table
| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Tested positive for COVID, then severe heart pain | Not stated | |
| — | Worst part of long COVID; crawling to the toilet, light-headed on standing | Severe | |
| around the turn of the year | Started improving | Not stated | CBT and psychotherapy |
| March 2022 | Feeling much more myself; pushing activity little by little | Not stated | Graded exercise / graded activity |
| spring 2022 | Back to health; running and training kids in soccer | Recovered |
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Anxiety & low mood, Headaches & migraine, Heart symptoms & palpitations, Neuropathy & tingling, POTS & dysautonomia, Pain & fibromyalgia.
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