Stay strong! Just thought I'd share my experience with you:
Couple days of the cold, followed by a fever and increasing difficulty breathing for 3 days. Just getting up from the couch felt like having just run a marathon and having to 'make' my body breathe. Actually having to force the air into my lungs. To the point where I called the hospital and was told there wasn't anything they could do ATM.
Then, one moment I will never forget. I went to sleep with the biggest worries I've ever had about how the next day would look. If there was even a next day. I woke up at 3:00 AM. And I could just breathe normally. All symptoms were just gone. No fever, nothing. The biggest relieve of my life.
Followed by 3 months of weird pains and discomforts. One of which was a stabbing pain that would travel from my lungs down to my side during the course of 4 days. Something that my SO also experienced.
Also, most of the issues I experienced in the months after the whole ordeal where psychological in nature. I could make myself short of breath by just thinking about it and I would have to go lie down. I also experienced chest pains 4 months after. All of that went away when I started to breath differently. I had been taking very short breath right from my upper chest area. This was actually causing me pain. I learned to breath by expanding my abdomen and after forcefully breathing very slowly like that for 2 days, everything went back to normal. So there's a big tip for anybody reading this. I think it's called diaphragmatic breathing, Google it.
Anyway, good luck to you and anybody else that needs it! When all of this is over and we're back at the bars, first round is on me! <3
> Also, most of the issues I experienced in the months after the whole ordeal where psychological in nature.
Interesting proposition not many people bring up. We’ve just had eight months of constant media coverage saying how bad it is, changing everyone’s daily lives, making the awareness of it literally inescapable. That has to play into account for some people.
Right or wrong, justified or exaggerated, there is definitely a psychological component now.
> I had been taking very short breath right from my upper chest area. This was actually causing me pain. I learned to breath by expanding my abdomen and after forcefully breathing very slowly like that for 2 days, everything went back to normal. So there's a big tip for anybody reading this. I think it's called diaphragmatic breathing, Google it.
And the moderate version of the other way is called "shallow breathing" or "chest breathing". From what I understand it's actually really common but not very good for us, because it doesn't really expand the bottom of the lungs, so we're not getting as much breath as we should.
Couple days of the cold, followed by a fever and increasing difficulty breathing for 3 days. Just getting up from the couch felt like having just run a marathon and having to 'make' my body breathe. Actually having to force the air into my lungs. To the point where I called the hospital and was told there wasn't anything they could do ATM.
Then, one moment I will never forget. I went to sleep with the biggest worries I've ever had about how the next day would look. If there was even a next day. I woke up at 3:00 AM. And I could just breathe normally. All symptoms were just gone. No fever, nothing. The biggest relieve of my life.
Followed by 3 months of weird pains and discomforts. One of which was a stabbing pain that would travel from my lungs down to my side during the course of 4 days. Something that my SO also experienced.
Also, most of the issues I experienced in the months after the whole ordeal where psychological in nature. I could make myself short of breath by just thinking about it and I would have to go lie down. I also experienced chest pains 4 months after. All of that went away when I started to breath differently. I had been taking very short breath right from my upper chest area. This was actually causing me pain. I learned to breath by expanding my abdomen and after forcefully breathing very slowly like that for 2 days, everything went back to normal. So there's a big tip for anybody reading this. I think it's called diaphragmatic breathing, Google it.
Anyway, good luck to you and anybody else that needs it! When all of this is over and we're back at the bars, first round is on me! <3