While most people with a mild or moderate case of COVID-19 recover within about two weeks, others experience lingering symptoms, such as fatigue and shortness of breath. "But there's just this little voice in the back of my head that's like, 'Jeez, it would be nice to get a solid sleep one of these days'." Sleep disturbances seen in post-COVID patients
"I feel very grateful that I have a job that I can largely do from home," Jen says. "I try strategies to get back to sleep, knowing that I've got work the next day and I'm feeling really tired … but I just really struggle, it's very frustrating."Įarly mornings, which used to be the most productive part of her day, are now noticeably slower, on account of feeling "dozy". She struggles to get back to sleep and stay asleep for more than an hour, before abruptly waking again - a cycle that repeats itself throughout the night. Jen says she's able to fall asleep reasonably quickly, but often finds herself awake two hours later. "But even since I've stopped coughing, I've noticed this very, very interrupted sleep pattern." "In the early days, the cause was obvious - I couldn't stop coughing," she says. Six weeks later, the Melbourne-based academic still feels pretty average, dealing with regular headaches, daily fatigue, and disrupted sleep.
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