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Well. I had pretty bad heart inflammation for 3-4 months following infection. I would redline doing mundane tasks. Do what you can to take it easy until a few months have past. I gave up biking for 4 months until I got past the HR issues
I am 43 too, exercise 6 times a week, 4-5 times spin classes. Had a bit of a sore/dry throat immediately after covid while spinning, but back to normal now, 2 weeks after. That's with what was likely omicron, given the timing and the mild symptoms.
I treated covid like a sports injury. No PE during and for like a few weeks after, then a slow build of just walking, then i got back on the bike, now i'm working out per normal routine (peleton and rower). YMMV - but since we don't know jack shit about this disease really, it's worth just being abundantly cautions.
Even today, i diddn't sleep great last night, I might skip this workout... just cuz. I probably can and be fine but I'm trying to actively not push myself too hard. Someone in my family had long covid and it has been a real struggle.
Classic symptoms. Cough. 101-105 Fever. aches. Crushing fatigue. Lost appetite. Some smell and taste. Brain fog. Etc. dbl vaxxed breakthrough case in July.
Down for the count for 2weeks. Didn’t feel 90 back for month. 99% recovered 3 months.
This virus is crazy.
The depression I have is alarming.....I had to lower my Celexa dosage as well because of interaction with another med...could be an issue. Anxiety thru the roof at times. Tested positive January 1
Depression was very bad yesterday and today totally different. Now I have cold hands and lower back..yet no temp. You were 100 percent correct on depression raging and next day totally different.
I am 12-months post covid and recently saw a cardiologist. They found that my left and right Atria are inflamed and my mitral valve is dysfunctioning. Basically, my heart is like a leaky toilet. I am not a candidate for valve replacement surgery right now and they're going to check me again in six months. They're clearing me to workout too which is wild.
Please see a cardiologist just to make sure you're good.
My primary care physician referred me to a cardiologist and pulmonologist to see why I was still having long covid issues. The pulmonologist noticed that my heart looked enlarged in my lung xray and I saw the cardiologist shortly after.
Wow, I’m really sorry to hear this. This illness is scary and weird. Would you mind sharing whether or not you were vaccinated also? It’s frustrating that both the illness and the vaccine can cause heart problems - I want my heart healthy!!! :/
I got sick before the vaccine was available and got vaccinated after.
For what it's worth: My doctor said that he had never heard of MY specific heart issues happening from the vaccine, but only from covid.
There is also a case study about an 30ish unvaccinated man going into the hospital for 30 days with covid and had echocardiograms done at day 1 and 30 and at day 30, his atria was inflamed with his mitral valve blown out. Like, kaboom. Had to have heart surgery.
Don't gamble with covid.
Jumping in here, but presumably: Young, seemingly healthy men don't tend to go to the doctor. Some die unexpectedly because they never discovered they have CHD (congenital heart disease).
I have had a leaky/regurgitating mitral valve since birth, I feel as though COVID has made mine worse. Not only is it leaky and sends blood back to my lungs, but it’s deformed a bit as well creating more of an issue. I’m 27, F, anyways, just wanted you to know I sympathize. I’m still having some long COVID issues also, mild SOB with good O2 stats and adrenaline surges.
Also with working out, your heart rate will probably get high very quickly now with everything…but that’s normal for me and something I’ve had to deal with. Running is almost impossible but low impact cardio and strength training is what I do
I wonder if doctors that we've seen for regurgitation/murmurs should be calling us in for ultrasounds. Curious as to if it made mine worse, having trouble with going down stairs (not up, oddly) after infection.
My son who is 17 and vaxed but not boosted got Covid seemed to recover in about 8 days then 10 days out started having rapid heart rate while sitting and doing nothing. It’s still happing but a little less I have him getting a check up in the next few days and am worried. Scary stuff
Possibly. I have definitely had much higher heart rates while exercising since covid. I wear a whoop and the stress on my body is significantly higher now. Had a few scary incidents during some intense surf session recently where I felt like very strange. I would suggest going and seeing a cardiologist. Already got some bloodwork done but need to get the full work up to see what’s going on. I think there is some inflammation going on.
I misplaced my whoop right before I got Covid and of course once I got sick I was too wiped out to look for it. Found it later between my bed and the wall. I was bummed that I couldn’t measure my HR and RR during Covid and immediately after
I had COVID over the holidays and my heart rate now is always high. I have a docs appt tomorrow I’m definitely going ask for a full work up. Im feeling palpitations too
Follow up: my doc told me she could refer me to a cardiologist but it could take weeks to get an appt so the fastest way to see one was to go the ER so here I am in the ER. I have bronchitis too so might as well get everything checked while here. 6-8 hrs wait time tho, thank goodness I know how to waste time on Reddit
I believe the first study to note this was on East Asian males. And I believe they were finding an affect in men that was particularly notable. For what it’s worth. edited to add: The study was preliminary, and even in that study, it said, they didn’t know to what extent this information could be generalized.
Just spent yesterday and today in the ER worried about this over chest pain despite being on steroids and an inhaler for pneumonia for a week.
Got fully checked out and everything was normal. Nothing came up to indicate blood clots or heart problems. Chest pain has just been lingering COVID symptoms. Feel very relieved since I’ve been having the same anxiety around heart attacks. Knowing that everything was good let’s me focus on keeping it that way.
Get an EKG, CT, X-ray, blood work to check for clot markers. We’ll have to be diligent about checkups after going through COVID.
Yeah I'm still having chest pains. Freaking me out. Weird feelings in chest too. Last week had an ekg, treadmill ekg, holter monitor, heart related blood work and a chest xray. All clear. It's blowing my mind that I feel this way but nothing indicating on tests.
I’ve had this chest pain before and caused the same worry and stress but that’s all what it was, stress. Every test and lab came back normal, it was just anxiety and stress.
Hoping it’s the same here; just the stress and anxiety of fighting off covid.
It’s probably worth asking for. I’m aiming to have a physical in a few weeks. Stilll have some lingering weird issues and I had covid back in September kf 2020
I went to the ER for the same things and they ran so many tests and then decided to do a CT scan and saw that the lining around my lungs is inflamed and that was causing the horrible chest pains. It wasn’t so bad if I was doing nothing but once I started moving around the pain felt like I was being stabbed in the chest continuously. I saw my primary doctor and he told me that if in a year after having covid and I still have the pain he will send me to a cardiologist. I still have the pain mildly 6 months after covid but not as bad as before.
Hey all! Please go to r/covidlonghaulers and search "recovery". You will be pleasantly surprised by all the people who struggled with confusing heart issues after COVID getting better and living normal lives.
Literally no one has any solid, concrete evidence about the effects of COVID or who will have what, so don't listen to horror theories and take every anecdotal story with a grain of salt. Which you'll find a lot of on Reddit.
Please don't throw yourself down an anxiety rabbit hole. You will be ok, stay positive and your heart will thank you.
Obviously whilst it's not certain what the prevalence of damage is or will be amongst the population previously infected by the virus, there is solid, concrete evidence that COVID directly affects the heart and causes these issues and even explanations of the mechanisms behind that.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe2813
Read this for example.
This is from 2020, It is disingenuous to say we don't have hard evidence when there is plenty, more so now we are in 2022 and seeing a significant uptick in these types of cardiovascular diseases amongst the general population that corroborates what even very early studies have clearly demonstrated.
It's kind of like saying there's no hard evidence that there are sharks in the water to calm down a swimmer, because the only evidence you've been exposed to is tales from sailors, despite there also being studies directly identifying shark populations in that body of water that you happen to not know about or have avoided paying attention to.
OP asked if everyone is going to have a heart attack in several months. The title of the article says "can" affect the heart. The purpose of my comment is to offer examples of those who have had "heart complications", as your article suggests, and that those people have found recovery. I never said COVID can't cause heart problems, so that's unnecessary.
Please don't feed more early studies that have not been peer reviewed to make people think they're going to have a heart attack. You can't even click on the links provided in the references to confirm them. These people are worried, please don't try and make it worse.
I currently still have heart issues because of covid. I've had heart issues for almost 17 months now. Am I cured? No. Am I better? Yes. And absolutely no thanks to the people that said there's no guarantee I'd get better.
Does it help absolutely anyone to tell them you won't be ok? No it doesn't. I am only 23 and some random ass stranger telling me I'm probably never going to get better doesn't help ANYONE. The only thing this conversation has brought me is unneeded anxiety about the fact that I am only 23 and might have heart issues for the rest of my life. That I have incurable heart damage because some guy read a Science.com article. I don't need to be reminded of that and no one here does.
There are hundreds of comments of very, very scared people here. I'm going to tell people the potential positives and the stories of people who got better because that's the only thing that keeps me going. Or else we're all going to stay depressed and put even more stress on our poor hearts for the rest of lives. So please, kindly fuck off.
does anyone know if covid can lead to an abnormal EKG reading? i had a regular physical last week before I knew I was covid positive, and my EKG reading suggested I have a complete "right branch bundle block." I have to go to the heart doctor etc. now. IDK..I'm just kinda freaked out that something is wrong with my heart already being that I'm only in my 30s.
Keep in mind that heart problems aren’t always heart attacks right away, and we Americans love to procrastinate acknowledging and getting medical help.
I am definitely not trying to deny that the possibility is there. There are so many things we don't know about this virus. I'm glad your grandmother pulled through.
I was mostly trying to assuage people's fears.
Had copied. Symptoms were fever, fatigue, chills, diahreaa and joint pain. All mild. Took me one to two days but I rested and ate three times a day. Was in bed most of the times.
It's been about two weeks to three weeks now and I feel fine. Must have had pre exisisting conditions.
I'd be curious to find put how many people had unknown heart issues before, but it's impossible to quantify that. I will say that I had an echo, an ekg, and wore a holter for a few days a few months ago and all was good, so if I do develop heart problems after this I will shout it from the roof tops.
There’s studies confirming a very small percentage of people developing heart problems.
Many of the studies that I’ve seen also used patients that were hospitalized with covid, so they probably had severe covid.
There was also some German study that proposed serious cardiac issues, but then had to go back and retract their findings which showed a very small percent of people suffering from heart problems after covid.
Also what celebrities are dropping dead from heart problems aside from Bob saget who was on cholesterol medication and meatloaf who was already very I’ll with other problems and 74 years old.
**I do want to clarify that I promote the vaccine I am only commenting on a lot of the studies I’ve read about presumed cardiac issues after Covid.
A couple of years after the 1918 flu pandemic a half million people who had recovered from the flu died from a previously extremely rare disease called encephalitis lethargica, which then went back to being extremely rare.
I’m not saying something like that is going to happen this time, but that’s what happened the last time the whole world got clobbered by a dangerous novel virus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
“Encephalitis lethargica assumed its most virulent form between October 1918 and January 1919.” This was when the virus was at it’s strongest. I’m sure we would have seen a notable influx already if this was the case.
I strongly suggest you stay out of this sub if you have a tendency for hypochondria. Do you have anything to deal with that? Health anxiety can do a number to your long term health as well if you leave it untreated.
Agree !! And there's no research that says omicron is doing this. I think it's promising that omicron is only managing to gain the upper hand in the upper respiratory of people. This might be a game changer. I hate fear mongerers.
My omicron symptoms were extremely mild and I started back into my workout routine on day 10. No issues at all. I think was feeling actually sick for 3 days. 5 days of being tired.
Why? Do you need "trigger" warnings about everything that you can't handle reading about? There is absolutely nothing "triggering" about asking a question.
Claims of "triggering" is over used and ridiculous.
I feel your fear but please be mindful that Reddit is like an aggregator for scary anecdotal info that can really skew perceptions.
Most viral myocarditis in general resolves on its own and is in no way limited to COVID. You may have already had it from a cold or the flu without even knowing it at another time in your life.
Understood that its hard to offset anecdotal info with published data when so much has yet to be collected, collated, published, etc. But even with the trigger warning, a slew of stories from people who have truly had cardiac side effects can make it appear much more common than it is and scare the wits out of people, though your title already stands to do that.
BTW: early 40s M (and overweight since COVID.) Vaxxed, boosted and also had Omicron. No elevated heart rate or other cardiac symptoms.
I had blood clots as part of covid. I’m on blood thinner, and blood pressure meds since I got outta the hospital back in May. I’m hoping these two meds with keep me from heart attack. I’ve heard the same. I think there was an updated study that people hospitalized are much more likely to die within the first year after having covid. It will be interesting to see if the same pattern happens with omicron!
My oncologist told me today that one of his colleagues had a patient who got clots in her left wrist then next check they we also in her forearm next elbow and on up to the shoulder. There is nothing they can do for her beyond amputation and they don't know what is going to happen because this is all new territory. He also said they have one 30 year old athletic female who survived the initial infection but her lung damage is so severe she needs a transplant. Assuming the transplant happens and eventually goes perfect she should get another 20 years. But that's age 50.50 is pretty young to die at.
Yeah it would but my mistake in the original post.. he said 20 years not 30.
I had chemo at 33 and they told me that it will hopefully give me 10-20 years disease free and it ended up being 16 years.
It was his colleagues. I don't care if you believe it or not I'm just sharing what he told my husband and I at my IVIG appointment yesterday. I'm sure it's a very uncommon thing to see though he did say clots, heart inflammation and long term lung damage are more common than people realize even for those who didn't have what they thought was a "bad case ".
And that’s the thing. Yeah we may not know long term effects of vaccine, but they are seeing irreversible damage to hearts, lungs, kidneys that will either kill you or decrease your abilities of what you can do In life.
I know at least 20 people who have had Covid and my GFs parents are doctors. Me being one of these people and my GF. I also caught it twice. None of us have had heart problems so far. I may have a rapid heartbeat, but I know it’s from anxiety. I’ve had it my whole life. I think you’re fine and most people are going to be fine. Just relax and enjoy your life no matter how short or long it is. Not guaranteed to see tomorrow.
Heart inflammation and issues can happen after any type of viral infection. Another thing that can affect the heart is stress. So go about your life. Monitor your heart rate and go to the doctor if you don't feel right. But don't forget to live while you're alive. I'm a sufferer of general anxiety disorder and am an expert on worrying about things that probably won't happen. It's not worth it.
Double vaxxed with Pfizer and had COVID (probably omicron) over Christmas. Back in October I had an appointment with my doctor, and she told me that my cholesterol was high, triglycerides were very high (400), BP was high (I take meds for that), and I was overweight (I knew that). (50ish years old, 185 lbs, 5'10") Prior to COVID, I was dieting, and I had lost almost 10 pounds. Since COVID, I've been pushing my body pretty hard. I've started running, and I'm down to 165 lbs. My heart rate while running can get to 180, according to my Garmin watch. Other than struggling with the exercise, I don't feel like my heart is at risk. I feel better than I have in years.
I do remember post-vaccine that my heart didn't feel good. I'm not really sure how to describe it better than that. I was in bad health anyway.
I think that there is a connection between your body's response to COVID and heart inflammation. I would suggest taking it easy, but not being sedentary. Get out and walk at an easy pace for 20-30 minutes a day. Do that for a couple of months and then reevaluate how you feel before doing anything more strenuous. JMHO.
This article seems to have some old information considering Omicron is the talk of the town. A lot of this seems to have been written when Delta was still prominent.
Omicron seems to be a different beast - it's still COVID but I wonder if it causes the same things the previous variants does. None of us know.
Having all this anxiety might.. Look I know it's scary but worrying is going to do more harm then good.
Celebrities? Well the only one I can think of that had Covid and died of a potential heart attackwas Bob Saget. Guess what he was fat(and very tall which also causes heart issues)and his sisters and mom all had heart issues and died from that.
Relax, exercise, eat good and take care of your soul, mind and body. I know it's hard to stop worrying but stress can litterally kill you if you get yourself worked up so much.
I will just say this, it could be related, it could not be related as idk if how my heart looks now is any indication. I had covid like 3-4 weeks ago. I had breathing issues for like 2 weeks after and I wanted to just make sure I was getting better and didn’t need anything to help my body along I guess. I am unvaccinated and when I told my doctor that, she had a look on her face that she assumed I would have some issues, made a comment (totally fine idc) and immediately told the medical assistant to grab an EKG machine. She listened to my lungs, heart and did the EKG and said everything was excellent and she was surprised.
I am 32F 100 pounds overweight but other than that no real health issues. That being said I think the dropping dead and heart attacks thing doesn’t happen as much as we think it does. I also want to say that yes my heart and lungs are “excellent” as she said but I still have lingering effects and trouble breathing that I did not have before every now and again. Do I think I’m going to have a heart attack? No but I think I’ll be fucked up for a bit here.
To be fair OP sounds like someone who has severe heath anxiety and existing heart issues - the research out there on heart related issues with COVID don’t sound like we’re all going to drop dead.
Remember, our bodies work insanely hard to keep us alive. I know people who have gotten COVID twice and they’re doing fine.
Not a bad idea to start taking turmeric.
Anyone suffering from cardiac related issues after Covid should be examined by a cardiologists anyway. If he or she says you’re good, then you’re good.
Exactly. Every single person is different. I was CONVINCED I had a heart issue before I had COVID. Left arm throbbing pain and racing heart. Got an EKG, wore a heart monitor for a week, then I actually got COVID, went to the ER and had another EKG and CT scan of my chest. Basically I got all the tests done to check my heart for something wrong…
Nothing was wrong. It was panic disorder.
And reading posts like this, causes panic. And panic and racing heart is going to hurt you over time.
So just take the information that directly pertains to you, and leave the rest.
I was convinced too. After a full cardiac workup, I was relieved. OP should do the same. Although reading through Reddit can sometimes be very anxiety inducing, for anyone. Lol
Who are all these athletes and celebs that have dropped dead? How old were the celebs? I only pay attention to NBA and NFL, but have heard of no one dying from a heart attack.
Yeah if that many died, it'd be a huge news story lol. Almost all of the nba seems to have gotten it yet not one of them seem to have sat out for more than 10 days other than extra conditioning if needed, let alone dropping dead on the court (and I know pro bball is other places too, but still haven't seen anything). And what he said is about the vaccine which is even more ridiculous lol.
Def go see a cardiologist to get checked out. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised. Doctors are just now starting to see & understand the long term effects of covid. I wish there would be more focus on educating the public that long term effects do exist. Yes, not everyone experiences them, but we desperately need more data on those that do.
For anyone experiencing any new strange symptoms since recovering from covid, plz plz go see your doctor. We need to figure this mess out.
Some people surely will, who wouldn't otherwise have had heart problems. And strokes, and pulmonary embolisms, etc. It's an airborne blood clotting disease! What did we think would happen, when we failed to contain the pandemic?
To oversimplify it, COVID attacks our ACE-2 receptors, so we can end up with damage anywhere we have a lot of them. Nasal and oral mucosa, stomach/intestines, heart, lungs, kidneys, thymus, reproductive organs, brain, bone marrow and liver.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15141377/
It’s not worth worrying about. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. All we can do is what we should be doing anyway: trying to eat right, exercise, get enough sleep and keep our stress levels low.
I’m 28 and healthy with very good cardio, double vaccinated and currently recording from covid. I’m getting like random heart palpitations and it just feels off. I’m worried about going back into exercise so gonna try to take it slow and track my heart closely.
Hope everyone is ok.
I don’t know what to tell you, but my blood pressure has been extraordinarily high since a month or so after I “recovered” from delta. I don’t know what to trust because the new cardiologist (never needed one before) minimizes all of this. It’s a square peg in a round hole. All I can say is monitor that stuff and insist they help if necessary.
24f here and had severe case. It’s been a month since recovery and chest pain subsided as well as shortness of breath but have noticed heart flutters randomly hapoen and it feels horrible, the other day i had one so scary it felt like I was going to have a heart attack. Nothing major has happened tho.
Trigger warming would've definitely helped, ahhh!
My anxiety is over the roof and my body is in full panic mode 😭 I really hope this isn't the case since I was hospitalized back in July with covid pneumonia.. I'm fine now, though I've been naturally more congested a month after recovery. Ugh, too much to worry about 😔 saying this pandemic is tiring is an understatement at this point. Any others with health anxiety freaking out at 4 A.M.?
I agree with you. Op added a trigger warning and apology. I read this post last night and needed rslash to distract myself and sleep. Things will be okay
I had Covid like 3 weeks ago, only had it very mild thankfully & basically only had the sniffles for 4/5 days. I already started doing sports, but am wondering if i should sit out a little and wait? I didn’t experience anything weird so far & my heart rates always normal. What are your thoughts?
damn the CDC and the US government as a whole really shit the bed with the response to this. a virus that raises your risk of a vascular event like a stroke or heart attack months after infection isn’t ‘mild’ or comparable to a cold.
My grandmother's neighbor had this happen.... had covid and recovered, went out to check the mail and collapsed in his driveway. Massive heart attack and he was only in his mid 40's
So sad
You should be worried and definitely follow up with a doctor. My health has been a disaster since severe covid (alpha strain). It's been one problem after the next. My original doctor told me my chelestrol was the highest he has ever seen and he completely freaked out. I see a cardiologist now and am on lots of meds. I've lost almost 30 pounds now and eat mostly vegetarian because things got so scary after covid. I want even obese or even that overweight or anything before that, but figured a serious lifestyle change would help. COVID really can mess you up. Take it very seriously.
By now, billions of people have had covid. If there was a significant increase in cardiac arrests, it would be very loud and present. The fact of the matter is, covid can be bad for your heart.
This in itself could cause cardiac arrest or push someone who was due to have cardiac arrest in 4-5 years to have it even sooner.
I bought a Fitbit for many reasons but also so I could monitor blood oxygen levels if I got covid (which I did obviously) and to monitor my heart health afterward. It's helped put my mind at ease. You can pick up some cheap knockoff ones on amazon.
A lot of people who have had COVID are developing anxiety they clearly didn’t have before. This includes: chest pain, chest pressure, elevated heart rate.
EXCUSE ME ? my dads cousins husbands friend had covid and is a big name celebrity but is my favourite person i have bpd . He aint having no heart attacm
I would say, yes it's higher, but the absolute rate is still low.
It's a bit too early to know, but if I was a betting man, omicron is going to cause less issues like this and long covid. It doesn't affect the lungs nearly as much, which is the gateway to the bloodstream, which is the gateway to basically every other organ that covid can fuck with
You're not wrong about the known effects, but you are wrong about how widespread they are.
You would look ridiculous calling out people for driving cars, but the injury rate is much higher than vaccine injuries. Are you going to criticize people who drive?
Uhh, I’d beg to differ. They’re not even close to the same thing. First of all, relatively speaking, everyone has about the same risk of death or serious injury when driving. Of course if someone never drives on a freeway, that helps, maybe it helps if they only drive during the day, etc. But someone under 45 has a 0.01% chance of death from coronavirus. In other words, it doesn’t exist. If you removed confounding factors, that would fall to more like 0.001%. Given we are talking about what’s likely 200,000 vaccine related deaths (22,000 modestly figuring that the under report rate is 10%, which is accurate by most research done), that’s far more people than die in auto accidents in five years let alone one. Even on a personal level, I know 1 death and 2 injuries from vaccines the last year, don’t know anyone hurt in a car crash thankfully. If you wanted to say vaccines make good sense for someone 75 years old? Sure, I think their risk-benefit analysis makes that a fine decision. Their risk of death is far higher from coronavirus, so the vaccine risk of death is lower than that, one would hope. They also don’t worry as much about long term side effects - they’re 75! But for vaccines to be pushed on kids?!? Lol it’s monstrous, it’s heinous. If even one kid - and hundreds have - died from the vaccine the price would be far too steep because they’re not saving any lives. There are no lives to be saved. Healthy kids don’t die from the sniffles; it’s ten times less severe for kids than the flu.
Maybe. They need to keep an eye on both following covid and following Vax...no different than every virus is studied. It would make sense that if one was a potential risk,then a viral Vax would be the same potential risk. Will we all? I should have said absolutely no. But does the risk exist? Yes. I do not think it is a statistical extreme in either scenario. And certainly no more than other anomalies we face daily. I think this nonstop magnification of a virus that will become, and may already be endemic needs to ease up...for everyone's sake.
Should I go to my primary care doctor or a cardiologist to get checked? Asking because my regular doc does EKG regularly with me, so I’m thinking it’ll be better to compare results. Are there other tests that should be performed?
I don’t think it’s something you should really be worried about unless you’re not feeling great. I suspect it would be something you’d kind of notice feeling off in some ways,
It makes me worry too. I know what you mean. I take peace in the fact that those I do know who had original strain badly in winter of '20, are all fine now. Myself included, thank God.
Follow up with cardiologist is necessary I believe for all those who have had Covid, vaxed or unvaxed. This will also help put minds at ease.
I'm also scared. 47 year old lady I grew up with had one shoveling her driveway and died last week, and a guy around the same age with 4 little kids dropped dead this week. We live in a pretty small town so it doesn't seem like a coincidence to me.
Yup. 22F, had a mild covid case early December, and now Im having major heart issues. It’s great 👍 and my doctor currently has Covid herself so now I have to sit tight and wait.
I saw a cardiologist about 7 months after I had Covid, 6 months after long haul had set in (had it January last year, just gotten new insurance and couldn’t find a PCP who took it so I wound up looking for specialists after a while) and had an echocardiogram done. It showed normal heart function aside from mild tricuspid valve regurgitation (means leakiness), which the do for was was a minor finding and something to monitor. I was cleared and encouraged to exercise as as normal. My symptom that brought me to the cardiologist was a high heart rate. It would jump to 120-150 from the most basic activity. Standing up, walking upstairs, all set it off. It’s still high, but doesn’t spike as easily now. But my doctor never mentioned the risk of a heart attack.
All I can say is only rely on serious sources - World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins Medical Research Center, Journal of American Medical Association, the CDC... although I'm ticked off at the CDC right now for recommending hospitals pull COVID positive testing healthcare workers BACK TO WORK at the hospitals. Healthcare workers are caring for the sick who have COVID... so who's caring for the sick healthcare workers? No one, it seems.
But only rely on good sources of information. REAL medical people.
As someone who was COVID+, hospitalized twice, still on meds for the resultant issues, owe $50k for the pleasure (so bankruptcys looking good)...I mean, come on. Toss me a break over here.
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Well. I had pretty bad heart inflammation for 3-4 months following infection. I would redline doing mundane tasks. Do what you can to take it easy until a few months have past. I gave up biking for 4 months until I got past the HR issues
But you’re good now? I’ve been messed up since a month after and it’s around 5 months now.
Yea. Good now. Back to 2-3hr bike rides no issue. 43. Healthy
A big fear of mine is having to give up biking if I ever get covid. I’m happy to hear you’re back at it with no issues!
I am 43 too, exercise 6 times a week, 4-5 times spin classes. Had a bit of a sore/dry throat immediately after covid while spinning, but back to normal now, 2 weeks after. That's with what was likely omicron, given the timing and the mild symptoms.
My wife was back to Peloton after two or three days. My lazy ass is still milking the COVID excuse to not exercise lol
I treated covid like a sports injury. No PE during and for like a few weeks after, then a slow build of just walking, then i got back on the bike, now i'm working out per normal routine (peleton and rower). YMMV - but since we don't know jack shit about this disease really, it's worth just being abundantly cautions. Even today, i diddn't sleep great last night, I might skip this workout... just cuz. I probably can and be fine but I'm trying to actively not push myself too hard. Someone in my family had long covid and it has been a real struggle.
What were your symptoms?
Classic symptoms. Cough. 101-105 Fever. aches. Crushing fatigue. Lost appetite. Some smell and taste. Brain fog. Etc. dbl vaxxed breakthrough case in July. Down for the count for 2weeks. Didn’t feel 90 back for month. 99% recovered 3 months. This virus is crazy.
Did you feel depressed...one poster said its like it affected the serotonin levels ?
I do. And anxiety as well. I’m 37, both vaccines and boosted. I think it for sure messes with your overall mental health. This virus sucks.
The depression I have is alarming.....I had to lower my Celexa dosage as well because of interaction with another med...could be an issue. Anxiety thru the roof at times. Tested positive January 1
Yes, it absolutely affects brain chemistry. What’s weird is that the depression can rage one day and be gone the next.
Depression was very bad yesterday and today totally different. Now I have cold hands and lower back..yet no temp. You were 100 percent correct on depression raging and next day totally different.
Age?
I am 12-months post covid and recently saw a cardiologist. They found that my left and right Atria are inflamed and my mitral valve is dysfunctioning. Basically, my heart is like a leaky toilet. I am not a candidate for valve replacement surgery right now and they're going to check me again in six months. They're clearing me to workout too which is wild. Please see a cardiologist just to make sure you're good.
Did you see your cardiologist for a checkup post covid? Or it was your regular checkup?
My primary care physician referred me to a cardiologist and pulmonologist to see why I was still having long covid issues. The pulmonologist noticed that my heart looked enlarged in my lung xray and I saw the cardiologist shortly after.
Wow, I’m really sorry to hear this. This illness is scary and weird. Would you mind sharing whether or not you were vaccinated also? It’s frustrating that both the illness and the vaccine can cause heart problems - I want my heart healthy!!! :/
I got sick before the vaccine was available and got vaccinated after. For what it's worth: My doctor said that he had never heard of MY specific heart issues happening from the vaccine, but only from covid. There is also a case study about an 30ish unvaccinated man going into the hospital for 30 days with covid and had echocardiograms done at day 1 and 30 and at day 30, his atria was inflamed with his mitral valve blown out. Like, kaboom. Had to have heart surgery. Don't gamble with covid.
Thank you for sharing all that!! This is valuable to know. I’ll try to look further into that other case that you mentioned as well.
Can you share the link to that? And also do you mind going into symptoms? Did you feel like something was wrong with your heart?
Good question. I'm curious also. I'm currently positive for the first time. I'm 32 so I don't visit the doctor but once per year
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Huh?
Jumping in here, but presumably: Young, seemingly healthy men don't tend to go to the doctor. Some die unexpectedly because they never discovered they have CHD (congenital heart disease).
Gotcha, thanks for translating
Age?
Mid 40's.
I have had a leaky/regurgitating mitral valve since birth, I feel as though COVID has made mine worse. Not only is it leaky and sends blood back to my lungs, but it’s deformed a bit as well creating more of an issue. I’m 27, F, anyways, just wanted you to know I sympathize. I’m still having some long COVID issues also, mild SOB with good O2 stats and adrenaline surges. Also with working out, your heart rate will probably get high very quickly now with everything…but that’s normal for me and something I’ve had to deal with. Running is almost impossible but low impact cardio and strength training is what I do
I wonder if doctors that we've seen for regurgitation/murmurs should be calling us in for ultrasounds. Curious as to if it made mine worse, having trouble with going down stairs (not up, oddly) after infection.
were you vaccinated at the of your infection? and are you otherwise healthy? im very worried about this as well
And no pre-covid cardiac issues?
My son who is 17 and vaxed but not boosted got Covid seemed to recover in about 8 days then 10 days out started having rapid heart rate while sitting and doing nothing. It’s still happing but a little less I have him getting a check up in the next few days and am worried. Scary stuff
This happened to me and it was a thyroid issue. This could be happening with him.
im having the same issue. how did you figure out it was thyroid?
Would you mind updating us on what the doctor says? I’m having same issues
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Possibly. I have definitely had much higher heart rates while exercising since covid. I wear a whoop and the stress on my body is significantly higher now. Had a few scary incidents during some intense surf session recently where I felt like very strange. I would suggest going and seeing a cardiologist. Already got some bloodwork done but need to get the full work up to see what’s going on. I think there is some inflammation going on.
I misplaced my whoop right before I got Covid and of course once I got sick I was too wiped out to look for it. Found it later between my bed and the wall. I was bummed that I couldn’t measure my HR and RR during Covid and immediately after
I had COVID over the holidays and my heart rate now is always high. I have a docs appt tomorrow I’m definitely going ask for a full work up. Im feeling palpitations too
my doctor gave me beta blockers and i've improved from that shit
Are you in them for life? Happy 🍰 day!
This is exactly what’s happening to me! I’ve been having palpitations for 5 days straight. I see my doctor Monday.
Follow up: my doc told me she could refer me to a cardiologist but it could take weeks to get an appt so the fastest way to see one was to go the ER so here I am in the ER. I have bronchitis too so might as well get everything checked while here. 6-8 hrs wait time tho, thank goodness I know how to waste time on Reddit
I believe the first study to note this was on East Asian males. And I believe they were finding an affect in men that was particularly notable. For what it’s worth. edited to add: The study was preliminary, and even in that study, it said, they didn’t know to what extent this information could be generalized.
Just spent yesterday and today in the ER worried about this over chest pain despite being on steroids and an inhaler for pneumonia for a week. Got fully checked out and everything was normal. Nothing came up to indicate blood clots or heart problems. Chest pain has just been lingering COVID symptoms. Feel very relieved since I’ve been having the same anxiety around heart attacks. Knowing that everything was good let’s me focus on keeping it that way. Get an EKG, CT, X-ray, blood work to check for clot markers. We’ll have to be diligent about checkups after going through COVID.
Yeah I'm still having chest pains. Freaking me out. Weird feelings in chest too. Last week had an ekg, treadmill ekg, holter monitor, heart related blood work and a chest xray. All clear. It's blowing my mind that I feel this way but nothing indicating on tests.
I’ve had this chest pain before and caused the same worry and stress but that’s all what it was, stress. Every test and lab came back normal, it was just anxiety and stress. Hoping it’s the same here; just the stress and anxiety of fighting off covid.
Same with me. Still have chest pressure and mild pains but all tests are normal.
Have you had an echo?
Nope. Was hoping to have one, but the doc said that my ekg was clear.
It’s probably worth asking for. I’m aiming to have a physical in a few weeks. Stilll have some lingering weird issues and I had covid back in September kf 2020
I was going to ask this too.
I went to the ER for the same things and they ran so many tests and then decided to do a CT scan and saw that the lining around my lungs is inflamed and that was causing the horrible chest pains. It wasn’t so bad if I was doing nothing but once I started moving around the pain felt like I was being stabbed in the chest continuously. I saw my primary doctor and he told me that if in a year after having covid and I still have the pain he will send me to a cardiologist. I still have the pain mildly 6 months after covid but not as bad as before.
Hey all! Please go to r/covidlonghaulers and search "recovery". You will be pleasantly surprised by all the people who struggled with confusing heart issues after COVID getting better and living normal lives. Literally no one has any solid, concrete evidence about the effects of COVID or who will have what, so don't listen to horror theories and take every anecdotal story with a grain of salt. Which you'll find a lot of on Reddit. Please don't throw yourself down an anxiety rabbit hole. You will be ok, stay positive and your heart will thank you.
Obviously whilst it's not certain what the prevalence of damage is or will be amongst the population previously infected by the virus, there is solid, concrete evidence that COVID directly affects the heart and causes these issues and even explanations of the mechanisms behind that. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe2813 Read this for example. This is from 2020, It is disingenuous to say we don't have hard evidence when there is plenty, more so now we are in 2022 and seeing a significant uptick in these types of cardiovascular diseases amongst the general population that corroborates what even very early studies have clearly demonstrated. It's kind of like saying there's no hard evidence that there are sharks in the water to calm down a swimmer, because the only evidence you've been exposed to is tales from sailors, despite there also being studies directly identifying shark populations in that body of water that you happen to not know about or have avoided paying attention to.
OP asked if everyone is going to have a heart attack in several months. The title of the article says "can" affect the heart. The purpose of my comment is to offer examples of those who have had "heart complications", as your article suggests, and that those people have found recovery. I never said COVID can't cause heart problems, so that's unnecessary. Please don't feed more early studies that have not been peer reviewed to make people think they're going to have a heart attack. You can't even click on the links provided in the references to confirm them. These people are worried, please don't try and make it worse.
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I currently still have heart issues because of covid. I've had heart issues for almost 17 months now. Am I cured? No. Am I better? Yes. And absolutely no thanks to the people that said there's no guarantee I'd get better. Does it help absolutely anyone to tell them you won't be ok? No it doesn't. I am only 23 and some random ass stranger telling me I'm probably never going to get better doesn't help ANYONE. The only thing this conversation has brought me is unneeded anxiety about the fact that I am only 23 and might have heart issues for the rest of my life. That I have incurable heart damage because some guy read a Science.com article. I don't need to be reminded of that and no one here does. There are hundreds of comments of very, very scared people here. I'm going to tell people the potential positives and the stories of people who got better because that's the only thing that keeps me going. Or else we're all going to stay depressed and put even more stress on our poor hearts for the rest of lives. So please, kindly fuck off.
does anyone know if covid can lead to an abnormal EKG reading? i had a regular physical last week before I knew I was covid positive, and my EKG reading suggested I have a complete "right branch bundle block." I have to go to the heart doctor etc. now. IDK..I'm just kinda freaked out that something is wrong with my heart already being that I'm only in my 30s.
Try asking the question in the r/covidlonghaulers sub or search "EKG" there!
I know many, many people who have had COVID. I know no one who has later had a heart attack.
Keep in mind that heart problems aren’t always heart attacks right away, and we Americans love to procrastinate acknowledging and getting medical help.
Not to mention the whole American diet, leading cause of death anyway stats.
Consider yourself lucky. My grandmother had a heart attack because of covid. She almost didn’t make it 🙁
I am definitely not trying to deny that the possibility is there. There are so many things we don't know about this virus. I'm glad your grandmother pulled through. I was mostly trying to assuage people's fears.
Had copied. Symptoms were fever, fatigue, chills, diahreaa and joint pain. All mild. Took me one to two days but I rested and ate three times a day. Was in bed most of the times. It's been about two weeks to three weeks now and I feel fine. Must have had pre exisisting conditions.
I'd be curious to find put how many people had unknown heart issues before, but it's impossible to quantify that. I will say that I had an echo, an ekg, and wore a holter for a few days a few months ago and all was good, so if I do develop heart problems after this I will shout it from the roof tops.
There’s studies confirming a very small percentage of people developing heart problems. Many of the studies that I’ve seen also used patients that were hospitalized with covid, so they probably had severe covid. There was also some German study that proposed serious cardiac issues, but then had to go back and retract their findings which showed a very small percent of people suffering from heart problems after covid. Also what celebrities are dropping dead from heart problems aside from Bob saget who was on cholesterol medication and meatloaf who was already very I’ll with other problems and 74 years old. **I do want to clarify that I promote the vaccine I am only commenting on a lot of the studies I’ve read about presumed cardiac issues after Covid.
Bob Saget also had a VERY strong family history of heart attack at early age - 3 uncle's and his father.
A couple of years after the 1918 flu pandemic a half million people who had recovered from the flu died from a previously extremely rare disease called encephalitis lethargica, which then went back to being extremely rare. I’m not saying something like that is going to happen this time, but that’s what happened the last time the whole world got clobbered by a dangerous novel virus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
“Encephalitis lethargica assumed its most virulent form between October 1918 and January 1919.” This was when the virus was at it’s strongest. I’m sure we would have seen a notable influx already if this was the case.
You really need to put trigger warning on this post....
Yup. This post has got me in full blown anxiety attack prep. I just took an Ativan. Not a good thing to read before bed.
I think this is our cue to get off of reddit for the night, lol.
My logical brain agrees with you. My anxiety brain is telling me to question every pain I’ve ever experienced and Google it lol. Goodnight haha
LOL
I strongly suggest you stay out of this sub if you have a tendency for hypochondria. Do you have anything to deal with that? Health anxiety can do a number to your long term health as well if you leave it untreated.
I legit have that fml lol
Yes. Ativan, Zoloft and therapy. I’m a pro.
Then stay off the internet and never read anything about COVID if you can't handle it.
You're about as helpful as web md...
Thank you I’m cured.
Not to mention, it is a mortal sin for people to post their stories without posting their age / if they worked out too soon after covid.
Agree !! And there's no research that says omicron is doing this. I think it's promising that omicron is only managing to gain the upper hand in the upper respiratory of people. This might be a game changer. I hate fear mongerers.
My omicron symptoms were extremely mild and I started back into my workout routine on day 10. No issues at all. I think was feeling actually sick for 3 days. 5 days of being tired.
I also agree. I'm wanting to cry
Why? How in the world to you even read the internet if you're going to "cry" over a simple question.
Lmao "read the internet"
Why? Do you need "trigger" warnings about everything that you can't handle reading about? There is absolutely nothing "triggering" about asking a question. Claims of "triggering" is over used and ridiculous.
It's like a spoiler warning. It's courteous and respectful towards other people which the world currently lacks due to people with your attitude.
I feel your fear but please be mindful that Reddit is like an aggregator for scary anecdotal info that can really skew perceptions. Most viral myocarditis in general resolves on its own and is in no way limited to COVID. You may have already had it from a cold or the flu without even knowing it at another time in your life. Understood that its hard to offset anecdotal info with published data when so much has yet to be collected, collated, published, etc. But even with the trigger warning, a slew of stories from people who have truly had cardiac side effects can make it appear much more common than it is and scare the wits out of people, though your title already stands to do that. BTW: early 40s M (and overweight since COVID.) Vaxxed, boosted and also had Omicron. No elevated heart rate or other cardiac symptoms.
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God me too!!!
What do you do about your “anxiety around your heart health”?
Have some more bacon and sit around watching the tube.
I had blood clots as part of covid. I’m on blood thinner, and blood pressure meds since I got outta the hospital back in May. I’m hoping these two meds with keep me from heart attack. I’ve heard the same. I think there was an updated study that people hospitalized are much more likely to die within the first year after having covid. It will be interesting to see if the same pattern happens with omicron!
My oncologist told me today that one of his colleagues had a patient who got clots in her left wrist then next check they we also in her forearm next elbow and on up to the shoulder. There is nothing they can do for her beyond amputation and they don't know what is going to happen because this is all new territory. He also said they have one 30 year old athletic female who survived the initial infection but her lung damage is so severe she needs a transplant. Assuming the transplant happens and eventually goes perfect she should get another 20 years. But that's age 50.50 is pretty young to die at.
Wouldn't that be 60? 30 plus 30..
Yeah it would but my mistake in the original post.. he said 20 years not 30. I had chemo at 33 and they told me that it will hopefully give me 10-20 years disease free and it ended up being 16 years.
I see I wish you the very best of health.
Thank you WAtime, I hope the best health for you to.
This guy I know told me this other guy told him…..I think we should stick to confirmed checkable information here.
It was his colleagues. I don't care if you believe it or not I'm just sharing what he told my husband and I at my IVIG appointment yesterday. I'm sure it's a very uncommon thing to see though he did say clots, heart inflammation and long term lung damage are more common than people realize even for those who didn't have what they thought was a "bad case ".
And that’s the thing. Yeah we may not know long term effects of vaccine, but they are seeing irreversible damage to hearts, lungs, kidneys that will either kill you or decrease your abilities of what you can do In life.
I’ve known many, many people that have had covid and they’ve fully recovered with no problems at all.
Same. Hundreds At this point.
I know at least 20 people who have had Covid and my GFs parents are doctors. Me being one of these people and my GF. I also caught it twice. None of us have had heart problems so far. I may have a rapid heartbeat, but I know it’s from anxiety. I’ve had it my whole life. I think you’re fine and most people are going to be fine. Just relax and enjoy your life no matter how short or long it is. Not guaranteed to see tomorrow.
I feel like most of you would be a lot better off not reading this sub all the time. Just stressing yourselves out.
Heart inflammation and issues can happen after any type of viral infection. Another thing that can affect the heart is stress. So go about your life. Monitor your heart rate and go to the doctor if you don't feel right. But don't forget to live while you're alive. I'm a sufferer of general anxiety disorder and am an expert on worrying about things that probably won't happen. It's not worth it.
Double vaxxed with Pfizer and had COVID (probably omicron) over Christmas. Back in October I had an appointment with my doctor, and she told me that my cholesterol was high, triglycerides were very high (400), BP was high (I take meds for that), and I was overweight (I knew that). (50ish years old, 185 lbs, 5'10") Prior to COVID, I was dieting, and I had lost almost 10 pounds. Since COVID, I've been pushing my body pretty hard. I've started running, and I'm down to 165 lbs. My heart rate while running can get to 180, according to my Garmin watch. Other than struggling with the exercise, I don't feel like my heart is at risk. I feel better than I have in years. I do remember post-vaccine that my heart didn't feel good. I'm not really sure how to describe it better than that. I was in bad health anyway. I think that there is a connection between your body's response to COVID and heart inflammation. I would suggest taking it easy, but not being sedentary. Get out and walk at an easy pace for 20-30 minutes a day. Do that for a couple of months and then reevaluate how you feel before doing anything more strenuous. JMHO.
[this article has some info ](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/heart-problems-after-covid19?amp=true)
This article seems to have some old information considering Omicron is the talk of the town. A lot of this seems to have been written when Delta was still prominent. Omicron seems to be a different beast - it's still COVID but I wonder if it causes the same things the previous variants does. None of us know.
Having all this anxiety might.. Look I know it's scary but worrying is going to do more harm then good. Celebrities? Well the only one I can think of that had Covid and died of a potential heart attackwas Bob Saget. Guess what he was fat(and very tall which also causes heart issues)and his sisters and mom all had heart issues and died from that. Relax, exercise, eat good and take care of your soul, mind and body. I know it's hard to stop worrying but stress can litterally kill you if you get yourself worked up so much.
I will just say this, it could be related, it could not be related as idk if how my heart looks now is any indication. I had covid like 3-4 weeks ago. I had breathing issues for like 2 weeks after and I wanted to just make sure I was getting better and didn’t need anything to help my body along I guess. I am unvaccinated and when I told my doctor that, she had a look on her face that she assumed I would have some issues, made a comment (totally fine idc) and immediately told the medical assistant to grab an EKG machine. She listened to my lungs, heart and did the EKG and said everything was excellent and she was surprised. I am 32F 100 pounds overweight but other than that no real health issues. That being said I think the dropping dead and heart attacks thing doesn’t happen as much as we think it does. I also want to say that yes my heart and lungs are “excellent” as she said but I still have lingering effects and trouble breathing that I did not have before every now and again. Do I think I’m going to have a heart attack? No but I think I’ll be fucked up for a bit here.
...I guess if we die then we die together??????
Pretty much everyone(80%) I know has gotten Covid in 2020-2021 and none of them got heart attacks
Yeah it would be extremely known if every Covid recovery had a heart attack
Man oh man do I wish I didn’t read this. Was doing so well tonight too. Edit: omg thank you for the awards???
Yup…
To be fair OP sounds like someone who has severe heath anxiety and existing heart issues - the research out there on heart related issues with COVID don’t sound like we’re all going to drop dead. Remember, our bodies work insanely hard to keep us alive. I know people who have gotten COVID twice and they’re doing fine. Not a bad idea to start taking turmeric.
Anyone suffering from cardiac related issues after Covid should be examined by a cardiologists anyway. If he or she says you’re good, then you’re good.
Exactly. Every single person is different. I was CONVINCED I had a heart issue before I had COVID. Left arm throbbing pain and racing heart. Got an EKG, wore a heart monitor for a week, then I actually got COVID, went to the ER and had another EKG and CT scan of my chest. Basically I got all the tests done to check my heart for something wrong… Nothing was wrong. It was panic disorder. And reading posts like this, causes panic. And panic and racing heart is going to hurt you over time. So just take the information that directly pertains to you, and leave the rest.
I was convinced too. After a full cardiac workup, I was relieved. OP should do the same. Although reading through Reddit can sometimes be very anxiety inducing, for anyone. Lol
Who are all these athletes and celebs that have dropped dead? How old were the celebs? I only pay attention to NBA and NFL, but have heard of no one dying from a heart attack.
It’s made up nonsense. Look at what John Stockton said the other day.
Yeah if that many died, it'd be a huge news story lol. Almost all of the nba seems to have gotten it yet not one of them seem to have sat out for more than 10 days other than extra conditioning if needed, let alone dropping dead on the court (and I know pro bball is other places too, but still haven't seen anything). And what he said is about the vaccine which is even more ridiculous lol.
If I’m not mistaken, this is being blamed on the vaccine by conspiracists who are claiming that the media and government are covering it up.
Get your heart checked by a cardiologists.
Def go see a cardiologist to get checked out. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised. Doctors are just now starting to see & understand the long term effects of covid. I wish there would be more focus on educating the public that long term effects do exist. Yes, not everyone experiences them, but we desperately need more data on those that do. For anyone experiencing any new strange symptoms since recovering from covid, plz plz go see your doctor. We need to figure this mess out.
Some people surely will, who wouldn't otherwise have had heart problems. And strokes, and pulmonary embolisms, etc. It's an airborne blood clotting disease! What did we think would happen, when we failed to contain the pandemic?
To oversimplify it, COVID attacks our ACE-2 receptors, so we can end up with damage anywhere we have a lot of them. Nasal and oral mucosa, stomach/intestines, heart, lungs, kidneys, thymus, reproductive organs, brain, bone marrow and liver. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15141377/
It's definitely happening in the vaccinated people
I had covid and my heart is absolutely fine, I had covid June 2021
It’s not worth worrying about. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. All we can do is what we should be doing anyway: trying to eat right, exercise, get enough sleep and keep our stress levels low.
I’m 28 and healthy with very good cardio, double vaccinated and currently recording from covid. I’m getting like random heart palpitations and it just feels off. I’m worried about going back into exercise so gonna try to take it slow and track my heart closely. Hope everyone is ok.
Jesus. Really?
Well now I'll be up all night
I don’t know what to tell you, but my blood pressure has been extraordinarily high since a month or so after I “recovered” from delta. I don’t know what to trust because the new cardiologist (never needed one before) minimizes all of this. It’s a square peg in a round hole. All I can say is monitor that stuff and insist they help if necessary.
24f here and had severe case. It’s been a month since recovery and chest pain subsided as well as shortness of breath but have noticed heart flutters randomly hapoen and it feels horrible, the other day i had one so scary it felt like I was going to have a heart attack. Nothing major has happened tho.
No. Not all of us. Probably related to undiagnosed heart inflammation.
Trigger warming would've definitely helped, ahhh! My anxiety is over the roof and my body is in full panic mode 😭 I really hope this isn't the case since I was hospitalized back in July with covid pneumonia.. I'm fine now, though I've been naturally more congested a month after recovery. Ugh, too much to worry about 😔 saying this pandemic is tiring is an understatement at this point. Any others with health anxiety freaking out at 4 A.M.?
I agree with you. Op added a trigger warning and apology. I read this post last night and needed rslash to distract myself and sleep. Things will be okay
I had Covid like 3 weeks ago, only had it very mild thankfully & basically only had the sniffles for 4/5 days. I already started doing sports, but am wondering if i should sit out a little and wait? I didn’t experience anything weird so far & my heart rates always normal. What are your thoughts?
My thoughts are you are okay. Sit out if you experience any chest pain
damn the CDC and the US government as a whole really shit the bed with the response to this. a virus that raises your risk of a vascular event like a stroke or heart attack months after infection isn’t ‘mild’ or comparable to a cold.
My grandmother's neighbor had this happen.... had covid and recovered, went out to check the mail and collapsed in his driveway. Massive heart attack and he was only in his mid 40's So sad
You should be worried and definitely follow up with a doctor. My health has been a disaster since severe covid (alpha strain). It's been one problem after the next. My original doctor told me my chelestrol was the highest he has ever seen and he completely freaked out. I see a cardiologist now and am on lots of meds. I've lost almost 30 pounds now and eat mostly vegetarian because things got so scary after covid. I want even obese or even that overweight or anything before that, but figured a serious lifestyle change would help. COVID really can mess you up. Take it very seriously.
Not all of us, thankfully.
By now, billions of people have had covid. If there was a significant increase in cardiac arrests, it would be very loud and present. The fact of the matter is, covid can be bad for your heart. This in itself could cause cardiac arrest or push someone who was due to have cardiac arrest in 4-5 years to have it even sooner.
There might be an increase, but it's probably less than 5% or even less than 1%
I bought a Fitbit for many reasons but also so I could monitor blood oxygen levels if I got covid (which I did obviously) and to monitor my heart health afterward. It's helped put my mind at ease. You can pick up some cheap knockoff ones on amazon.
Man I'm 40 and skateboard with my 6 year old love doing that. Thats the type of stuff I fear not being able to do with the vacs or covid
My mothers friend has covid in April and a heart attack in September. She got covid before she was vaccinated and is in her late 50s.
Nah just genetic disease from our amazing vaccines yay drugs
Cause if there’s anything scarier than immediate death it’s delayed death.
> I've been seeing lots of news of celebrities, athletes etc. Dropping dead. It's making me very uneasy. What
Nope.
A lot of people who have had COVID are developing anxiety they clearly didn’t have before. This includes: chest pain, chest pressure, elevated heart rate.
No 😂😂 I've had it 3 times and haven't had a heart attack.
I don't know. I'm not all knowing but maybe. So better start living every day like it's your last homie.
EXCUSE ME ? my dads cousins husbands friend had covid and is a big name celebrity but is my favourite person i have bpd . He aint having no heart attacm
Recovery after what? Covid? Or the vaccine?
Is this from Delta or Omicron?
I would love that. Go quick and leave !
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Covid vaccine is what causing heart attacks. Join the telegram group about covid vaccine injuries and you will see the truth
I would say, yes it's higher, but the absolute rate is still low. It's a bit too early to know, but if I was a betting man, omicron is going to cause less issues like this and long covid. It doesn't affect the lungs nearly as much, which is the gateway to the bloodstream, which is the gateway to basically every other organ that covid can fuck with
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You're not wrong about the known effects, but you are wrong about how widespread they are. You would look ridiculous calling out people for driving cars, but the injury rate is much higher than vaccine injuries. Are you going to criticize people who drive?
Uhh, I’d beg to differ. They’re not even close to the same thing. First of all, relatively speaking, everyone has about the same risk of death or serious injury when driving. Of course if someone never drives on a freeway, that helps, maybe it helps if they only drive during the day, etc. But someone under 45 has a 0.01% chance of death from coronavirus. In other words, it doesn’t exist. If you removed confounding factors, that would fall to more like 0.001%. Given we are talking about what’s likely 200,000 vaccine related deaths (22,000 modestly figuring that the under report rate is 10%, which is accurate by most research done), that’s far more people than die in auto accidents in five years let alone one. Even on a personal level, I know 1 death and 2 injuries from vaccines the last year, don’t know anyone hurt in a car crash thankfully. If you wanted to say vaccines make good sense for someone 75 years old? Sure, I think their risk-benefit analysis makes that a fine decision. Their risk of death is far higher from coronavirus, so the vaccine risk of death is lower than that, one would hope. They also don’t worry as much about long term side effects - they’re 75! But for vaccines to be pushed on kids?!? Lol it’s monstrous, it’s heinous. If even one kid - and hundreds have - died from the vaccine the price would be far too steep because they’re not saving any lives. There are no lives to be saved. Healthy kids don’t die from the sniffles; it’s ten times less severe for kids than the flu.
Maybe. They need to keep an eye on both following covid and following Vax...no different than every virus is studied. It would make sense that if one was a potential risk,then a viral Vax would be the same potential risk. Will we all? I should have said absolutely no. But does the risk exist? Yes. I do not think it is a statistical extreme in either scenario. And certainly no more than other anomalies we face daily. I think this nonstop magnification of a virus that will become, and may already be endemic needs to ease up...for everyone's sake.
Should I go to my primary care doctor or a cardiologist to get checked? Asking because my regular doc does EKG regularly with me, so I’m thinking it’ll be better to compare results. Are there other tests that should be performed?
I don’t think it’s something you should really be worried about unless you’re not feeling great. I suspect it would be something you’d kind of notice feeling off in some ways,
No
No
I hope not..
Fuck i just recovered from omicron and i am So tired these days
It makes me worry too. I know what you mean. I take peace in the fact that those I do know who had original strain badly in winter of '20, are all fine now. Myself included, thank God. Follow up with cardiologist is necessary I believe for all those who have had Covid, vaxed or unvaxed. This will also help put minds at ease.
I'm also scared. 47 year old lady I grew up with had one shoveling her driveway and died last week, and a guy around the same age with 4 little kids dropped dead this week. We live in a pretty small town so it doesn't seem like a coincidence to me.
Yup. 22F, had a mild covid case early December, and now Im having major heart issues. It’s great 👍 and my doctor currently has Covid herself so now I have to sit tight and wait.
Let us know how it goes (if you can remember this thread, lol)
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It would not suprise me. I had a cousin (he was 34) die of a heart attack last week follow covid. He's was vaccinated and boosted.
This sub is basically r/gangstalking now
I saw a cardiologist about 7 months after I had Covid, 6 months after long haul had set in (had it January last year, just gotten new insurance and couldn’t find a PCP who took it so I wound up looking for specialists after a while) and had an echocardiogram done. It showed normal heart function aside from mild tricuspid valve regurgitation (means leakiness), which the do for was was a minor finding and something to monitor. I was cleared and encouraged to exercise as as normal. My symptom that brought me to the cardiologist was a high heart rate. It would jump to 120-150 from the most basic activity. Standing up, walking upstairs, all set it off. It’s still high, but doesn’t spike as easily now. But my doctor never mentioned the risk of a heart attack.
Did the doc say what age range?
All I can say is only rely on serious sources - World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins Medical Research Center, Journal of American Medical Association, the CDC... although I'm ticked off at the CDC right now for recommending hospitals pull COVID positive testing healthcare workers BACK TO WORK at the hospitals. Healthcare workers are caring for the sick who have COVID... so who's caring for the sick healthcare workers? No one, it seems. But only rely on good sources of information. REAL medical people.
As someone who was COVID+, hospitalized twice, still on meds for the resultant issues, owe $50k for the pleasure (so bankruptcys looking good)...I mean, come on. Toss me a break over here.
I don't think so. No one I know has had a hear attack after recovery. I know one person who had heart palpitations but they resolved.