Hey y'all,
Long story short, I was hospitalized for what I thought to food poisoning, that turned out to be covid (or a stomach virus plus covid), and had a pretty traumatic experience. I got severely dehydrated from the nausea/diahrea and needed IV fluids to rehydrate. My resting HR was 120 when I got there and didn't drop after I rehydrated and felt normal, so the docs wouldnt let me leave. Them the normal covid symptoms settled in my resting HR bumped to 140-150. After a battery of tests, they found my heart was fine and not showing signs of damage. Only late in the evening they found out I had covid, which explained the heart rate. I ended up leaving the hospital with instructions to come back if my resting HR did drop back below 110. The following days felt like normal covid, and my HR dropped back down to 60-80bpm. However, my blood pressure started to climb up to the 144/80s, so now I'm monitoring. This makes me very anxious, which I can feel. I now constantly feel anxious, and I can't check my resting HR without feeling anxious about it, which gives me results in the 90-100bpm range. I was always a slightly anxious person, but now I feel anxious all the time. Any heart beat or weird feeling sets me off. I'm terrified of winding up back in the hospital. It's been a week today since I first came down with covid. I've had covid twice and never had a issue with it, nor did I monitor my heart rate then because I didn't realize anything odd. Anyone else have a similar experience? Did you recover? Any tips? I feel like I'm trapped in a feedback loop of anxiety and elevated HR and BP.