Long-term symptoms after covid infection, postcovid, long-term covid and post-infectious condition after covid.
There are many names for the disease state that has not yet been defined. It is a strange condition.
I'm 30 years old and I'm like an old cell phone.
Even though the phone has been charged all night, the battery is dead at lunch.
The dark figure is large
Novus estimates that 160,000 Swedes share my experience, in Gävleborg County, 330 people have been diagnosed.
Personally, I did not want to turn to the health center because I was told not to burden the care or go there if I feel sick.
At the same time, I needed to go to the doctor to find out what was wrong and to realize the need for a sick leave.
The World Health Organization WHO believes that people with long-term covid around the world have become stigmatized and unable to navigate through health and social insurance systems.
Fortunately, my employer has shown care and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency has been compliant.
But after waiting for two months to see a physiotherapist, I received a text message from Hudiksvall local hospital announcing that I had been removed from the waiting list.
The knowledge is small
I have been diagnosed but am expected to treat myself. In the evenings I get worried when I read articles about people who have had the symptoms for more than a year. What is happening to my body and is there a cure? Is it enough that I exercise five minutes a day and watch Youtube videos with Buddhists teaching me to breathe through my nose? What do the studies show that heart tissue in long-term covid looks like a thorn bush with broken ends?
The pandemic has been going on for more than a year and there is neither clear information nor any national plan.
I do not know what I should do, and instead I have begun to cherish what I seem to feel good about.
Go to bed when I am tired instead of a certain time.
Think instead of consuming.
Exhale.
And now I actually feel better.
The battery lasts longer.
But for many others, the impressions from within and without are still the opposite.
It is difficult to be exhausted in a society where time must always be filled with something.
But we are human beings and you should listen to your own heart, especially when it is broken.
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In the video, Carolina Carlsson, who is a physiotherapist at Sandviken Södra Din health center, shows exercises that can be done at home.
Photo: Nadya Norton / SVT
In the video, Carolina Carlsson, who is a physiotherapist at Sandviken Södra Din health center, shows exercises that can be done at home after a covid infection.