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this is what long covid feels like [CW: body horror illustration, occasional art nudity]

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2026-1-7 Worst POTS day ever

Symptom: Chronic Diarrhea

2025-8-30 Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation & MCAS Environmental Illness

Symptom: POTS Blood Pooling & Coat Hanger Pain

2025_8_18 I booked a hotel to try to identify/isolate variables. As soon as I walked in the hotel room, I felt my head swell.

2025_8_14 I feel better out of the house, which is incongruous with ME/CFS Long Covid.

2025-8-17 The water isn’t the whole picture… but what is?

Symptom: Migraine Triggers

Treatment: Keeping Myself Warm in the Dark

Symptom: Guilt that a treatment is working.

2025_6_22 my new medication has been recharging, but I also have big joint pain.

Make A Terrible Comic Day 2025

2025_6_28 It’s my birthday, but I now view time by different measures

Symptom: it feels like Cranial Pressure?

2025_6_13 I(carus) scheduled two phone calls on the same day

2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.

025-1-22: Fire & Ice

Freedom from Safety

Treatment: Meditation Retreat (Zen Sesshin)

2024_10_19 Why won’t throat calm down?!

Symptom: Mental Post-Exertional Malaise

2024_9_5 Hand, Wrist & Low Back Pain

2024_8_27 Very Unshakeable Head & Back Aches

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