🫀 A haywire heart (POTS & tachycardia)

🫁 Loopy lungs (shortness of breath)

👀 Twisted vision (blurred & double)

🧠 Full-smog brain fog (+ "Extension Brain Lesions")

🥶 Raynaud's Syndrome (Secondary type (I guess))

🏥 Too many high-speed trips to the hospital

🤕 And much more medical mayhem

I was almost asymptomatic during my March 2020 *infection but also oddly unwell for the next 7 months (with no clue it had anything to do with covid; the world didn't know long covid existed yet)

Then in October 2020 a bomb went off in my body and I was seriously unwell for the next 3 months (which is when I first learned about long covid; mostly through the brilliant work of Gez Medinger on Twitter, Gez Medinger on YouTube, and the countless world-class experts he continues to interview tirelessly throughout his own long covid crisis)

After being bed-bound for 3 months straight my health finally recovered throughout January 2021 (Summer) and I lived seemingly covid-free for 4 months from February 2021...

But then in June 2021 (Winter) Long Covid Season 2 dropped with the same cast from Season 1 back crippling me all over again (including Tachycardia & POTS, 24/7 Tingly Limbs, Twisted Vision, Headache Horrors, & more) but with a new twist and villain too: the swift onset of serious neurological symptoms. Doctors feared Multiple Sclerosis so I was led down the very long, expensive path of multiple MRIs, Nerve Conduction Tests, Lumbar Punctures, and more, only for them to "rule it out for now".

After another 5 months of hell my health recovered again throughout January 2022 (Summer, again?) — and I was symptom-free for 4 months living normal life and exercising freely and daily (albeit cautiously with only low intesity).

Then one random day in June 2022 (Winter, again) i jumped in the cold ocean water for 5 minutes and BOOM! Long Covid Season 3 started for me with my feet being 95% numb for the next 2 hours and my health raplidly declining into debilitation, desperation, and more hosptial time (with Tachycardia & POTS, 24/7 Tingly Limbs, Twisted Vision, Headache Horrors, & more). Now I'm apparently suffering Raynaud's Syndrome too which is likely a secondary condition to [something else] and Long Covid seems a clear candidate. But most of the experts and doctors here in Melbourne know little about Long Covid and the rest are dismissive and sceptical of it. The "brand new' Long Covid clinic can offer me speech pathology, physiotherapy, psychology, and social services... but no answers or hope

Latest Update (June 2023): I've been mostly symptom-free for 6 months after my last savage 5-6 month relapse. In December 2022 I was recovered enough to slowly start light exercise and I've since built back up to running ~100km per week and riding a couple of hundred kms per week too. I'm still having some inflimation issues and other mild symptoms, and I'm praying daily to the Covid Gods to spare me another Long Covid relapse this Winter