[MuddyBoots]

About a month ago I got "sick." Just had a really runny nose, little bit of a sore throat (chalked it up to breathing weird in my sleep), more weak/tired. Overall was pretty okay, every fall I get pretty bad ragweed allergies, and this started when weather got wonky (I was walking on half a foot of snow one day and in a tank top two days later kinda deal).

My mom (who I live with) about two days after my nose got runny got massively sick. I mean coughing non-stop, couldn't breathe (I gave her my albuterol inhaler and it helped. If it didn't we would've gone to the hospital.), vomiting, fever, chills, maybe other stuff that's just what I remember. She was sick about a week and a half and got better.

I stayed about even keel while she got sick and better, and then my runny nose went away but some other physical and mental stuff kicked in that was/is wayy worse than the allergies or whatever. I slept up to 14 hours a day and never slept less than 6 hours at night (which is really REALLY weird for me), have massive brain fog/confusion/no concentration, have no energy or motivation (pretty much spent weeks on the couch only leaving to get my meds in the morning and even that I loathed), have auditory and visual hallucinations (mostly visual), get dizzy, no appetite, nauseous, and sometimes get unbearable headaches that become tolerable with ibuprofen. One thing that made me think "covid??? (turning into long covid?)" was the fact the dish soap smells like fruit punch, but it's not like that was a consistent thing the whole time or at the beginning. It was sometime in the past week I noticed that and nothing else smells off to my knowledge. I also have periods of SEVERE paranoia and irritability (usually together), but that's rare, but I am more paranoid/irritable overall than I have been in months prior.

I mean, I'm on this site because of lifelong mental health stuff (bipolar, BPD, eating disorder, ADHD), and of course I'm on meds for that now (Depakote and methylphenidate and PRN trazodone) but I haven't had any real med changes in almost three months.

I just don't know if I should rest as much as possible or push myself a little or if I need a med change from pdoc or pester my PCP (which I really really really really really don't want to do because I kinda hate her).

[Discombobulated]

I’m no expert but I’m just recovering (faint positive) from covid for the second time and both times I got persistent urticaria (hives) which respond to antihistamine and then pop up again. It’s like my system goes into overdrive. I’ve read long covid could be the auto immune system attacking itself.

[Tart Cherry Jam]

Long covid can manifest itself in depression, I have read in more than one source.

[Frog4Life]

Definitely can look like allergies. I went in the doctor once swearing it was allergies and turned out to be covid. (And, of course, that was the day they took my picture for my chart)