#covid fatigue

[maithancailin]

Lads for the love of all that is good if you have covid-esque symptoms stay at home,mask up if you need to!

I caught it a month ago at a concert and still fatigued with seemingly a permanent cough now.I know more people who have caught it in the last month than the height of the pandemic. People dgaf anymore seemingly.. 😕

[romythe]

The reason for the extreme fatigue associated with long covid has been discovered by Dutch scientists.

Turns out the mitochondria (energy centres) in the muscles are not working properly and muscle tissue wastes away.

I sincerely hope this will be a step towards something that can actually help people with long covid and definitely the stigma attached to it.

[purrfurnax]

[post-grammatic-stress]

If you've ever told a person who's had to be bedbound for a period of time that you wish you could "just stay in bed", DO IT.

Stay in bed. For days. But don't get up if someone needs you to, or you get bored, or you get antsy. Don't do anything other than rest. Just lie in your bed, whether you need to get stuff done around the house or socialize or anything else "productive". You'll have to cancel on people, you'll disappoint them, they won't understand.

And if you're thinking, "well, i CAN'T just be in bed. There's stuff that has to be done - I have plans", maybe ask yourself why you assumed a disabled person doesn't have plans or things to do or desires.

[spoonfulofhannah]

Fatigue feels like you have sandbags tied to your feet while trying to walk. It feels like you haven’t slept in weeks. It feels like gravity is pulling you down. It feels like cotton balls are in your head, clouding everything.

Fatigue is NOT the equivalent to being tired.

[spotlightstory]

"It seems likely that the brain-muscle axis is activated by respiratory infections via the CSF [cerebrospinal fluid]… and continues to signal long after the initial infection is cleared," the researchers write in their paper. "Long-COVID may therefore be caused by chronic cytokine signaling."

Researchers have just discovered a process in fruit flies which links inflammation with impaired motor function, providing researchers with a potential target for treating the persistent muscle fatigue that follows many infections. Of long COVID's numerous symptoms, an intolerance to exertion could be considered one of the more debilitating. "This is more than a lack of motivation to move because we don't feel well," says Washington University developmental biologist Aaron Johnson. "These processes reduce energy levels in skeletal muscle, decreasing the capacity to move and function normally."

Continue Reading.

[ricisidro]

Covid apathy and fatigue are real. Here's how to fight your Covid apathy and how to best protect yourself from Covid again as the virus is rising in many parts of the world.

#CovidApathy #CovidFatigue #stress

#trauma #PTSD #GetVaccinated

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[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

Press release for this Canadian study [Metabolomic and immune alterations in long COVID patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]:

“We do not actually believe that long COVID is a separate new disease,” explains rheumatologist and clinical immunologist Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, professor of medicine, who is an expert in fatigue associated with rheumatic illnesses.

“Some symptoms — such as the loss of taste and chest pain — are very specific for COVID, but we see a common pathway with ME/CFS, which leads to the same fatigue, brain fog, post-exertional malaise, widespread pain and non-refreshing sleep,” he says.

[readmarkclippastecollage]

Tumblr peeps must be wired different, because I am definitely not seeing this level of mask wearing irl.

Would appreciate reblogs to reach a wider sample size!

[drifting-bones]

they should invent walking that doesn't make you feel like you're going to keel over and die

[unveilandresist]

by January 10th 1 in 3 people will have had this wave of covid. covid causes long term damage with each infection and wears down your immunity. you do not want this. there is no cure for long covid or me/cfs and there is a significant chance (last I checked I think it was 1/5 infections) of getting long covid that increases with each infection. please protect yourself and your loved ones by wearing a mask. variants have become more transmissible so a n95 or kn95 is the minimum protection to keep yourself reasonably safe(r) from getting covid.

it is important to understand often viruses do not simply clear up and go away. like chicken pox and shingles or what we now think of as polio that is actually post polio syndrome. polio symptoms were mild and 75% of cases are asymptomatic. we do not yet see the full scope of what this virus will do over our lifetimes. as someone who had my entire life derailed by me/cfs after having mono, (almost 10 years ago! it hasn't gotten better!) we have to take pathogens more seriously if we care about ourselves and our communities.

I'm willing and open to talk with people who want to understand better what covid does to our bodies and how we can best practice community care and also harm reduction if we're stuck in unsafe situations at home or work (certain mouthwashes and nasal sprays can help).

if you're watching what's happening in Palestine and live in the US, the government doesn't care about your life either. They lied about palestine and they lied about covid too. It is not just a cold.

[fernthefanciful]

Please please please I am BEGGING y'all

When you visit someone who is chronically ill or disabled and their house is not as clean or tidy as you'd like: just don't say anything

We *know* okay.

Trust me, we know

We'd love to see it differently too. But the truth is we *can't*. And you know this, you do!

So please. Just shut up. Don't pile on more guilt and feelings of inadequacy. We have enough of our own

[corona-journal]

I kinda wish this was an optional thing....

But, virus don't care...

12 September 2023

[alexx-is-tired]

I know it might sound silly, but I'm so happy that I started learning how to knit recently.

I've been working on my first big project, a sweater, and it's given me something to be excited about each day. I look forward to getting out of bed so I can work on it, I've been taking more time offline and just listening to music while I knit and it feels almost therapeutic.

It helps distract me a little from the pain and fatigue I'm experiencing, and it's also given me something to feel proud of and accomplished in!

Maybe once it's finished I'll post a picture of it here :3

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

People are very critical about long COVID/ME/CFS patients not being on diets and it's probably the most fucking annoying ableist thing we have to deal with on a regular basis that people think is totally fine or even helpful.

Preparing homemade food takes a ton of energy. Preparing homemade food to fit a diet takes even more energy and is expensive. Carnivore is one of the most common recommendations and, aside from dieticians practically screaming about how dangerous it is due to the complete lack of vitamins, meat is expensive. Even high protein, low carb diets that aren't as strict still require you to spend quite a bit on protein. Diets like anti-inflammatory, mediterranean, low fodmap, and others that restrict certain types of food are often prohibitively complicated, and many times advice is conflicted on whether things are ok to eat and in what amount. The vast majority of restrictive diets don't come with easy-to-prepare meals unless you have a ton of money to drop on expensive meal kits.

And most importantly, for some of us food is all we have left. Being closed inside for 90% of your life is incredibly boring in a way that's hard to describe. I spend 8-10 hours a day in the same place doing the same things because they're all I can do. Eating something interesting is pretty much the only way I get to add enrichment to my life. Diet is not a cure for us, it only provides mild symptom relief if any. It's just not worth giving up the small sliver of joy that is an "unhealthy" meal when it's not going to actually result in us regaining the ability to do other things that bring us joy.

❌If you give dieting advice on this post I will block you. You're annoying and you're missing the point.❌

[manichewitz]

sitting in bed rn trying not to cry thinking about how i’ve had long COVID for more than a year and i haven’t gotten it checked out until now bc i didn’t know i really could. i thought i’d have to have it for a year before it counted as “long” but its actually only six weeks. i hate that i didn’t know this—information on COVID is so hard to find lately because its not really in the news anymore, and let’s face it the US ‘moved on’ from the pandemic and informing people about the dangers of COVID way too quickly anyway. i know it’s not really my fault but it still sucks.

so anyways if you’re still feeling sick a month or more after getting COVID, go to a doctor. don’t be like me