Padma Priya first got COVID-19 in April 2020. The journalist living in Hyderabad, India, recovered a few weeks later. But not completely.
“I was experiencing a lot of fatigue. But … everyone kept saying, ‘oh, you know, after a bad viral or any flu you do get that sort of fatigue.’ But I never improved,” Priya, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the digital media platform Suno India, told Devex.
And then she had a “bad crash.” She was buying vegetables in the market when her heart started racing and she fainted. This would repeat on several occasions, but no doctor could pinpoint exactly what was going on. At one point, they thought it was an adrenal gland tumor.