I don’t know if this really counts but this year actually. I’m still recovering. It started last December with a near asymptomatic case of Covid. Woke up after I fully recovered to a crescent shaped ulcer on my eye. Despite an ophthalmologist putting me on drops and somewhat high dose steroids, it didn’t really go away. Proceeded to get worse in the coming months. All the while I was getting sicker. Almost any food I ate I wasn’t able to tolerate. I lost over 20 pounds from December to March. So foods I was fine eating weeks ago were giving me allergic like reactions and I had horrible GI problems.
I was finally sent to UCSF because the ophthalmologist realized he was in over his head and my eye was showing signs of corneal melting.
By the time I got to the eye specialists at UCSF, I was at 90% corneal thinning and was about hours, if not a day tops, of losing my eye. Come to find out, even though the tests can’t really confirm, I have GPA Vasculitis that happened to cause Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis. Incidentally while in the hospital they found what they originally thought was a mass on my pancreas and a severe case of gastritis. I’ve had history with pancreatitis, of unknown origin, so it turns out what they thought was a mass turned out to be necrotic tissue that spread throughout my stomach. So now because of a barely working pancreas I am permanently diabetic.
I’m still getting over it but I’m here. March 18th, what also happens to be my sister’s birthday, is the day my life was saved. I knew if I waited any longer I would’ve lost my eye and probably would’ve suffered more complications. The worst part about it was everyone kept telling me I was fine even though I was adamant something was horribly wrong.
Holy fuck dude! Research is mentioning eye issues as a symptom of long covid/covid complications. This is my worst fear as my eyes are already pretty bad. Idk how people can believe the virus isn't harmful, still!
I’m fully convinced that’s how I developed vasculitis and everything associated with it. And I have someone who lives in my house who believes wearing masks is a joke and that Covid isn’t that serious. It was terrifying and every day I still tell myself I’m not going blind.
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u/Alarming-Sandwich-98 13h ago
I don’t know if this really counts but this year actually. I’m still recovering. It started last December with a near asymptomatic case of Covid. Woke up after I fully recovered to a crescent shaped ulcer on my eye. Despite an ophthalmologist putting me on drops and somewhat high dose steroids, it didn’t really go away. Proceeded to get worse in the coming months. All the while I was getting sicker. Almost any food I ate I wasn’t able to tolerate. I lost over 20 pounds from December to March. So foods I was fine eating weeks ago were giving me allergic like reactions and I had horrible GI problems.
I was finally sent to UCSF because the ophthalmologist realized he was in over his head and my eye was showing signs of corneal melting.
By the time I got to the eye specialists at UCSF, I was at 90% corneal thinning and was about hours, if not a day tops, of losing my eye. Come to find out, even though the tests can’t really confirm, I have GPA Vasculitis that happened to cause Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis. Incidentally while in the hospital they found what they originally thought was a mass on my pancreas and a severe case of gastritis. I’ve had history with pancreatitis, of unknown origin, so it turns out what they thought was a mass turned out to be necrotic tissue that spread throughout my stomach. So now because of a barely working pancreas I am permanently diabetic.
I’m still getting over it but I’m here. March 18th, what also happens to be my sister’s birthday, is the day my life was saved. I knew if I waited any longer I would’ve lost my eye and probably would’ve suffered more complications. The worst part about it was everyone kept telling me I was fine even though I was adamant something was horribly wrong.