THE MIRROR – A man was locked in a psychiatric ward and accused of being delusional after developing a terrifying condition he believes was triggered by Covid.
Brandon Green’s symptoms included extreme sensitivity to light, hives and a range of allergies; he was eventually forced to spend 20 months living in a blacked-out room.
The 37-year-old contracted Covid in 2020 and says that he was not particularly ill – but the experience was strange.
“The virus itself wasn’t too bad” Brandon says, “but it was weird. I could feel something in my brain. For weeks afterwards, my tongue would go numb, my foot would drop for a whole week, I couldn’t speak for hours. I’d blank out mid-conversation. It was like I couldn’t access my brain.”
The next sign that something was wrong was when he used a supermarket sunscreen on his face and had an unusual reaction.
“By the end of the day, I was burnt all over,” he says. “And the following days and weeks, every time I would go out in the sun, I would feel intense burning.”
As time passed, Brandon’s symptoms worsened. He developed extreme sensitivity to sunlight that felt like being burned by a blowtorch, hives on his skin and a bizarre sensitivity to metal. “I couldn’t sleep on a mattress because the springs would burn me, so I just moved to the floor,” he explains.
He also developed an allergy to mould that left him struggling to breathe and severe sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation, which got worse week by week.
By April 2022 he was forced to spend his days in a blacked out room with the curtains taped shut to ensure no light crept in.
He was only able to venture out at night and jokes he lived for late night shopping on Thursdays …
