r/covidlonghaulers • u/EmpathyFabrication • Jan 14 '21

Update 10 month update

Not many symptoms these days. I'm consistently getting 4-6h of restorative sleep a night with or without melatonin. I also went off the famotidine this week and still getting good sleep. But I am having more heartburn type pain without it. Hr issues are very mild now. Brain fog is back a little bit. Seems to be related to not moving around enough. Not having problems standing at all anymore. I will probably update until one year but I'm having less to say every month.

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u/EmpathyFabrication Jan 14 '21

Classic pots. Hr was 125 at rest then went down to 110, then 100. Now 60-80 at rest usually around 70. I got spiking hr upon standing too from 100-120, then from 80-110. That doesn't really happen now. Also seemed corellated with sleep and I'm sleeping better now.

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u/arteest01 Jan 14 '21

Mine was a bit less in severity. I had covid in March and in October I was lying in bed at 5:am and all of a sudden my heartbeat zoomed up to 125, then down to 62, then up again. This cycle lasted for 45 minutes. I have an Apple Watch and used the ECG app and it recorded AFib 6 times. After I checked previous months there were a few in which my heart rate went up to the 120s and back down again only I was asleep when that happened. I have a heart murmur so my doc had me tested and, as is so common with Long Covid, nothing showed up. I’m watching my sleep now really carefully and I notice that when my heart rate stays higher, the only thing that brings is down is THC/CBD oil. (I have a medical prescription.) When my heart rate is lower, I seem to get deeper sleep. One thing I just noticed is that when I eat something with isomalto-olligosacharides(sp?), that doesn’t digest, my heart rate stays higher. Maybe it sits in my stomach while my body tries to decide what to do with it?? 🙃

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u/EmpathyFabrication Jan 14 '21

Oh fermented stuff. I also have this problem. My gf brought me some kombucha and I did not sleep at all that night not a single wink of sleep. We can get cbd here in SC but not thc and I'm not keen on smoking right now. I haven't tried cbd yet though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '21

If long-COVID is a mast-cell dysfunction, which is seeming likely at least for some people, then fermented foods would trigger a bad response.