CORONAVIRUS : The Recovery Path
A CoMorbidity
Patient’s Perspective
This is the 2nd and concluding part of my
experiences with Covid19 on a first-person basis. In this path I outline my
experiences as a recovering patient. This is my personal account, and not meant
to be extrapolatable – in other words,
learn from this, but do not assume symptoms or approach or diet for yourself
without proper medical guidance. This is a serious issue – and my objective is
to give those who are unaware of the reality of this disease an opportunity to
read about a firstperson patient’s experience.
Further, please note that my experience is firstly
of borderline Coronavirus, and is that of a person with CoMorbities – Diabetes
{4 years}, Asthma {16 years} and Hypertension {24 years} in a background of
Cervical Spondylosis {14 Years} and minor infarcts {10 years} {due to BP} in my
brain. I do not know of the technicalities, though am a Biology Grad, and deeply
passionate on Genetics. I still study genetics, by the way – but I am not aware
of anything on Medicine. I am a simple patient, that is all. Lastly, this is writeup
applicable only to myself.
MY EXPERIENCE
Moving ahead – I was out of quarantine by about 10
September or so. It is not two months on from that – and basis my experience, I
have never felt such a massive hitback in the post-disease period of any
illness, and, as can be seen, I have had
some lengthy medical issues to deal with in my life. This is my first and most
important highlighted point. The recovery period for me has been one of
weakness, first and foremost. And the weakness is taking a lot of time to go.
So, ask your Doctor if you feel weak, and obey. I do not know if this is due to
Corona, so I make no link between the two. Ask the Doctor.
It is a strange kind of weakness, it does not completely
debilitate you, in that you are active, and can feel an urge to return to
normalcy. Do not do so without medical advice. Ask specifically, can I return
to normal routine to your Doctor. Trust me on this, please. I felt almost
normal, but not quite. In the first 2-3 weeks, the slightest activity would tire
me, forcing me to sleep in the afternoons for 4-odd hours. Only by the first
week of October, 3+ weeks after quarantine ended, was I able to think of restarting
professional schedules. Well, even then, entire October passed me by and I was
still feeling weakness, though to a lesser degree. My productivity had nose-dived
to 20% of normal!
This has been further exacerbated by a series of
mild irritants, one after the other, in an almost unbroken chain of events. Every
few days I am being hit by a mild cold, or a slight discomfort in the stomach
region. {Read Stomach region as the general region below the lung area, not the
anatomical stomach!} Added to that is a continuing mild ache at times in the
legs and hips region. Of late, there have been some isolated feelings of spasm
in the legs, ache in the knees and ankles. These are mild – in some cases so
mild that no self-respecting diabetic will even call them an illness!
CONCLUSION
Are these due to or related to Corona? I do not
know. I am not a medical person. All I am stating above is the sequence of
events as has happened to me. Note that I do not list medications etc that I am
taking – my sole objective is to list my experience as a patient of Covid-19,
and place on record what I am going through in the hope that it may help others
with profiles similar to mine – CoMorbidity patients. All I know is that it is
only now, Diwali 2020, November-mid, that I am nearing somewhere near 80% of my
previous output. I hope my effort here helps
some one reach the right decisions…
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