Fellow Covid-19 survivors will immediately connect with the opening line in Dr Vishakha Shivdasani’s book, Covid and Post Covid Recovery. “Surviving is not the same as recovery, doctor. I have survived Covid-19, but I am not the same person I was before Covid,” the patient said, after a month’s recovery. “I have not fully healed.”
As I grapple with the aftermath of Covid-19, I can relate. A month out of hospital, I don’t have the stamina of my pre-Covid days. My energy levels are low. I get exhausted easily. Taking breaks between chores, sometimes a nap, helps me through the day. Other Covid survivors say the same: they experience continuing shortness of breath, muscle weakness, flashbacks, mental fogginess and other symptoms.
“I have seen the entire gamut of cases – from patients who are completely asymptomatic to those who have succumbed to the virus,” says Shivdasani, a Mumbai-based doctor known for helping patients reverse lifestyle-related diseases – diabetes, heart disease and obesity – by combining nutrition and lifestyle changes with medicine.
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