You have no idea how long your social life will be "on hold". And it may not be on hold, but just different than it was before.

Maybe you can meet a friend for a board game? Video game? Movie? Listening to a new album? Walk? Card Game? Bike Ride? Coffee shop hang out?

Just let your friends who are are going to hang out with know that you may have to suddenly call it quits and they'll probably be ok with that.

Meet with less people at a time than you were before?

"Partying" isn't the only way to socialize. There are lots of things you might want to do once you take that off the table.

You might make a new friend?

Or make a current friend a closer friend?

You may only have to deal with these issues for a few more days, or a few weeks. You, nor anyone else, know how long these symptoms will last that are prohibiting you from having a more robust social life.

You could wake up one day feeling all better! (It happens. I've read about it.)

If you do wake up feeling all better, watch out to see if the symptoms return, and if they do, continue to take it easy, or back off whatever it is you're doing.

But agonizing now that you have to completely give up your social life for several months seems way premature and very pessimistic.

Just hang in there and try to take it one day at a time if you can.