{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Which means so far my record for dealing with Long Covid symptoms so far is\nBrain infection \u2013 caught a big chunk of damage with...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/714167244517670912/", "html": "<p>Which means so far my record for dealing with Long Covid symptoms so far is</p><ol><li>Brain infection \u2013 caught a big chunk of damage with only and all of the parts of my brain I didn&rsquo;t like, used the depersonalization to explore the concept of selfhood from outside and more precisely reshape the self in line with my life experience as it returned</li><li>Aerobic energy generation \u2013 rendered me barely conscious to the point of hardly breathing, I <i>immediately</i> reasoned it out and converted it to miraculous weight loss that is finally giving me a body to match my idealized self</li><li>Blood pressure drops \u2013 okay I passed out twice at the bar that actually trusted to serve me despite how the brain stuff made me unsteady and slurry, that kinda sucked, but it&rsquo;d been a bit high before so okay?</li><li> this or maybe</li><li>I think was the testosterone, which was subtle enough I didn&rsquo;t even notice at first, but on top of making me more sexually charismatic means my wounds heal faster and I gain more muscle from exercise \u2013 those are the effects steroids hack. Which is nice, because the #1 brain stuff switched me from being flatfooted to walking with raised arches, which apparently uses a completely different chain of muscles throughout the body I have to train up from scratch</li><li>Iron deficiency \u2013 the fatigue had gotten worse and even more creatine didn&rsquo;t help, my limbs felt weighed down, and then 3 days in I was in the supermarket and was like &ldquo;wait, you know what this reminds me of reading about? <i>anemia</i>&rdquo; and got some iron pills and yeah, that was it</li><li>Used muscles fatigue more \u2013 this one&rsquo;s receded some, I think it might have interfered with the breakdown of lactic acid, but as the muscles continue to build (with the help of testosterone, #5) even intense smashing just doesn&rsquo;t push me to the limits and generate as much?</li></ol><p>So basically as far as I&rsquo;m concerned, I am the human that <b>won</b> this plague</p>"}