I can share my own experience here. When I originally got sick with my lung infection, they had no fucking clue what was wrong with me. Every single major symptom you see with covid, can't breathe, headache, complete body aches, extreme fatigue, ect.. I had them all except high fever. My family Dr. recommended me to a local pulmonologist and put me on a Zpac and steroids until i could see him in two weeks. In the meantime, I layed at home and literally thought I was gonna die. Nothing really helped. Only after see him and doing bronchoscopy did he realize he couldn't help and recommended me to OSU. It was a three month wait to see them. But all the Dr's discussed my situation and put me on immuno suppressants. Within a week I could tell shit was getting better. I did foolow ups with the local guy til I could get to he specialists at OSU. After my lungs calmed down and my body stopped attacking them, we went heavy on steroids. 60 mg a day of prednisone. Holy weight gain. But, eventually I got in at OSU and they had me on the immuno suppressants, steroids, heavy antibiotics, and a couple other pills. I went through lung biopsies, collapsed lungs, extended stays down there. I was diagnosed with NSIP, non specific interstitial pneumonitis. Pretty much no definitive conclusion to what caused it, although they suspect it was moldy grain dust from working at the grain elevator. Im lucky in a sense that I was the youngest person they had seen with this. I've been able to recover to over 80% of my lung function. I suspect they"ll be dealing with lots of younger folks doing the same routine I was.
So I feel terrible for some of these people who were once healthy that will suffer the repercussions of this the rest of their lives. It's a long, physically and mentally grueling battle to get comfortable with. If anyone here ever suffers from this virus or any pulmonary problems, I'd recommend the Pulmonology department at OSU Martha Morehouse. They absolutely are the reason Im still able to do anything close to what I used to.
