Cindy contracted COVID in December 2020 and became bedbound with long COVID symptoms including tachycardia, brain fog, and severe anxiety. After five months, she started the Gupta Program, doing about 15 brain retraining sessions daily, and reached full recovery within a year. She now walks three miles a day and says she feels better than before COVID.
Questions this video answers
End of December 2020.
About five months.
About 15 times per day.
Walking about three miles per day.
About one year from onset (she estimates ~8 months of recovery after starting the program; 100% by ~12 months).
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My name is Cindy and I'm from Florida. I got Covid. In the end of December 2020, I had a very mild case of COVID And then as I started going about my day, I got hit with long Covid symptoms. My doctor called it the cytokine storm. My body just. I started getting tachycardia, very high heart rate, chronic fatigue, brain fog. I was bedbound for about five months, and that's how it all started.
And what were the symptoms like that you experienced?
Just high accelerated high heart rate, which they call tachycardia. I dropped weight very quickly, chronic fatigue. Like I said, I was bed bound for about five months. Brain fog and an incredibly heightened nervous system where I had anxiety that I had never experienced before that such a heightened level of anxiety.
And in your worst periods, you said you were bed bound. So what were you able to do? Or were most tasks not possible?
Most tasks were not possible. My husband took care of me almost completely. He worked from home, so I could not. I did not cook. I literally got out of the bed to use the toilet and to, you know, go and eat whatever my husband had cooked for me, you know, so that was it. And the rest, I was in bed.
And how did you feel emotionally?
Oh, I was so anxious. Like, no, I've never had anxiety like this. Well, first of all, it was just the very beginning of COVID and nobody knew what was happening. It was 2020, so it was before. We didn't have any vaccines or anything at the time. So I think part of it was just what was happening in my central nervous system. But. But then also part of it was just the fear of COVID and not knowing what was going on with my body. So that I felt incredibly isolated. I was just completely in solitude most of the time. I mean, luckily my husband and daughter were there, but I spent all the time alone and, yeah, just unbelievable amounts of fear and just complete. No energy. Just no energy to do anything. And I am a very energetic person. And that was so frightening to just have the energy just taken out from under me.
And how long did you have the condition for before you found the Gupta program?
It was five months. Five months. And I worked with two doctors. I worked with a functional medicine doctor and a traditional medical doctor. And everything they gave me, it didn't help. Nothing helped. And they were trying. And it was not until my husband found the Gupta program on a world symposium with medical doctors about Long Covid. He found it for me and said, I think this would really be good for you. And immediately When I watched the first video about how the brain, how the nervous system and the immune system work, I just knew it was going to help me. And immediately for me, I started getting better. Just started. It was the first glimmer of hope I had in those five months.
And what was the trajectory then of your condition as you used more of the program?
I still had a lot of fatigue at first. I would do the retrainings about 15 times a day. I was very committed. And so I, I would just find myself being able to get out of the bed for a little bit longer, sitting at dinner with my family a little bit longer, you know, staying up to read, because I, I, I had such brain fog that I was unable to even watch television or even on my phone. But little by little, I was able to start reading. I just, yeah, just started getting better and better. I would say I was probably once, I was probably at 10% before the Gupta program. And then as I got on the Gupta program, I went probably up to 20% very quickly, like within a week. And then little by little, like week by week, I would have more energy, more calm. The meditations helped me tremendously in the Gupta program. And it was not like a quick, was not an overnight thing. It was a slow process. But every week I would probably gain, you know, 10% better, 5% better, you know, that type of thing.
So how long did your recovery take.
Then to get 100%? Oh, gosh, I would say a year to be 100%, but five months of it was bedbound before the Gupta program, so probably eight months, maybe, maybe a little longer.
And then once you did, let's say, the eight month mark with the program, what were you then able to do?
I was able to walk, which I had not been able to go outside and walk. I started walking little by little. I just took it. I would go a block and then I, the next day I'd go two blocks. And, you know, and now, well, probably after six months, I was walking three miles, you know, every day. I started, you know, going out and going to the market. You know, I started cooking dinners again, which I remember weeping the first time I had the energy to cook dinner for my family. You know, it was very hard time.
And how do you feel now?
A hundred percent. In fact, I feel better than I did before I got long Covid, which is kind of crazy that I am grateful for it because I learned how to deal with anxious thoughts that I had even before long Covid, the meditations, the brain retraining, it's all helped me to be so much more of a present. Grounded, spacious, more open human being. So I would say I'm better than I was even before I got Long Covid.
And many people may have Long Covid. They may have tried many things. What would be your advice to them?
Oh, I would say go on the Gupta program as soon as possible. I mean, it was the only thing that changed anything for me, you know? It wasn't like I wasn't trying other things. I had two doctors working with me, you know? But it was what worked. It worked.
