Illness Recovery Experiences

Commenters share personal anecdotes about recovering from severe illnesses, injuries, or conditions such as COVID, polio, comas, and accidents, discussing recovery timelines, permanent damage, symptoms, and long-term effects.

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docflabby Mar 8, 2023 View on HN

It's not something you recover quickly from :(

BWStearns Nov 12, 2024 View on HN

Fully recovered. Felt like shit for about a year after from losing so much weight, and being stuck in a room alone for 3 months probably didn’t help much.Wouldn’t be surprised if it broke something that shows up later but so far everything is fine 8 years on.Only chronic symptom so far is I got into functional programming while quarantined and it stuck, so maybe it’s a sign of mental illness.

da02 Sep 27, 2018 View on HN

Any permanent damage? Or did you make a full recovery?

rnprince Jul 3, 2017 View on HN

Sorry to hear about what you went through. Any tips about how you recovered, or what you would have done differently?

techsin101 Nov 28, 2019 View on HN

Healthy recovery of my close relative

the_af Mar 13, 2024 View on HN

Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you fully recovered.

ainiriand Jul 14, 2020 View on HN

It is something terrible, and really scary. My best friend at the time suffered one at 23 years old. He eventually recovered but he suffered a huge loss of concentration capabilities and had to drop from college eventually. He also fought with speech impairment for many years but with a lot of training he was able to recover 99% of it.

ozfive May 30, 2023 View on HN

Count your friends and loved ones lucky in that sense. It certainly happened to me and am still recovering from it 2 years later.

grugagag Jan 7, 2023 View on HN

Wow, is it really permanent? I thought most people get it back eventually. I lost and recovered mine after covid

glp1guide Jul 8, 2024 View on HN

I assume you mean experienced -- what did you do to recover? Sounds like it was temporary?