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That sucks, mate. Don’t mean to pry but what, if any, treatment options have you been offered? It doesn’t sound like many cases like yours are being formally diagnosed, has yours?
I hope you have a quick recovery.
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I literally could have written this myself
I feel completely knackered and I've been unable to regain my fitness. I just feel totally fucked, which now feels like its getting worse as I've lost the motivation/energy to keep up with exercise. I've not run in weeks because it just became such a ballache - putting loads of effort in but just being left feeling fatigued rather than making improvements like I normally would. This has also led to me being back at my heaviest weight in years. I've picked up a cold (not Covid again fortunately, as confirmed by a test I had to take related to something else) - which seems to be exacerbating the feelings of shittiness.
The difference being that I think I had it but don't know (had a private antibody test late May which came back negative, but they've since said that in most people antibodies only last 2-3 months and all the private antibody tests are basically scams, so who knows).
Also, I started doing turbo at the end of March, it was horrific at first - splitting headaches by the end, destroyed for the rest of the day, that sort of thing - but I got fitter, lost weight and was feeling much better, although it took a lot more work than it would normally to get me to a certain level of fitness.
Then I got what I thought was sciatica* at the end of July, had to stop riding, got less fit, put on weight again and now I seem to have gone backwards. I've had a persistent problem with headaches - which I never used to get - and I'm about to call in sick because I have a stinking one, again, today and I can't face looking at a screen.
*Which was possibly not sciatica and I currently have something called foot drop where I can't walk properly which my physio thinks is somehow related to my arteries, as it doesn't correspond with nerve endings. But I've never seen a physio so stumped and I'm starting to wonder if it's also related...
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I know what you mean... if I go up the stairs i can really be blowing for no good reason.
If I go and do 'proper' exercise is seems better, but there's certainly something lingering. If I do a fair amount of exercise I can get a really hoarse voice as well.
I also seem to get ill really easily nowFox... I now get headaches as well, never have before.
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Definitely not in the same ballpark as some cases mentioned in this thread but I feel like I haven't fully recovered from Covid - which I had back around March.
I feel completely knackered and I've been unable to regain my fitness. I just feel totally fucked, which now feels like its getting worse as I've lost the motivation/energy to keep up with exercise. I've not run in weeks because it just became such a ballache - putting loads of effort in but just being left feeling fatigued rather than making improvements like I normally would. This has also led to me being back at my heaviest weight in years. I've picked up a cold (not Covid again fortunately, as confirmed by a test I had to take related to something else) - which seems to be exacerbating the feelings of shittiness.
I'm just a bit fed up and came to the Covid forum to moan and see if anyone else was feeling the same way post Covid and saw this thread. In my head I've been rationalising that it'll just take time and hopefully I'll be in a better place this time next year. I'm not really used to feeling low on energy or feeling tired generally - not very good at adjusting to it.