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

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

Symptom: Icicle Stabbing Spondylitis

Symptom: Derealization

2025_2_6 My body no longer tolerates stress well, and US pol is very stressful

2025-2-10 Acute Stress Response

Symptom: Disconnection

Accessibility Erasure

025-1-22: Fire & Ice

Symptom: Coat Hanger Pain

2025-2-5 Headache

2025-1-19 MCAS trigger: allium smell

2024-12-9 hung up by my trapezius

2025_1_23 insomnia

2025_1_20 environmental allergies triggered (MCAS)

2025_1_25 just going about my day feeling impaled…

2024_12_13 “Pain is not the same as suffering”

2024_12_12 I feel anger towards most people…

2024_12_10 I want to believe everything would be better if my pain went away.

2024_12_9 It’s not entirely exaggerating to say this bath saved me

2024_12_8 I feel the cold in my joints. I’m 33 years old or something.

I was walked in on taking a bath.He was more embarrassed than me.

Symptom: Anger

2024_11_9 My heart feels too big for my body

2024_10_4 Aching Beneath My Shoulder Blades

Freedom from Safety

Treatment: Meditation Retreat (Zen Sesshin)

2024_10_19 Why won’t throat calm down?!

2024_10_18 Sudden Nausea

Symptom: Mental Post-Exertional Malaise

2024_9_28 Sore Throat

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