Fatigue after recovering from covid?

Its just going to take time. You should have social distanced.

Some people of my personal acquaintance have experienced devastating fatigue long after they "recovered."

lease wrote:

Some people of my personal acquaintance have experienced devastating fatigue long after they "recovered."

Everyone talks about deaths but hardly anyone talks about the after effects or permanent damage.

Ah yeah I figured it might just be a sort of waiting game, thanks. For the record, I did social distance but someone else in my household did not :(

That's terrible, hopefully things get better for them soon :(

I've heard of people getting ME/CFS after having a virus like covid but my problems thankfully aren't severe enough right now to make me think I've got ME/CFS.

62 tested positive at our high school. Only 2 with symptoms. Several have been at XC practice and have no impacts. One is a 15:30 5k runner.

bell a ruze wrote:

62 tested positive at our high school. Only 2 with symptoms. Several have been at XC practice and have no impacts. One is a 15:30 5k runner.

I am *very* glad to hear that so many came through okay (though of course it would have been better if no one had been infected at all). Another good example of what we already knew: The disease affects different people differently.

Uh, yeah, in a school with younger kids who are likely not in a high-risk category only 2/62 were symptomatic. This means that coronavirus is in no way dangerous to anyone. Let us base our entire pandemic response to a sample size of 62 people. Good idea.

Nobody said it is not dangerous to fat old people. Probably 200k will have died by the end of the year. But it is not dangerous to healthy young people. Rough stats are that 20 under age 15 have died while 200 under age 15 have died of the flu.

not my real handle wrote:

Its just going to take time. You should have social distanced.

You're going to get it eventually. Try not to lose sleep over it.

I probably had it but only had mild symptoms for two days. I've often felt fatigued, like I've been getting two fewer hours of sleep/night, but it hasn't affected my training that much. I'm not sure how much of it is just being stuck inside my apartment most of the day working from home.

I'm pretty sure I had an asymptomatic virus, COVID or otherwise, a few months ago, because my roommate definitely had some respiratory virus at that time. Now, I have unusual heart discomfort after running. I'm worried its viral myocarditis. I've stopped running and plan to see a cardiologist.

Point being, there definitely can be long-standing aftereffects of viral infections, and COVID seems especially powerful in this respect. Some of the milder ones may only be noticeable to people who are fairly active, such as runners.

Viruses cause oxidative stress and that can use up your bodies antioxidant reserves. You need to replenish those.

It is also typical to become anemic so you need to rebuild your red blood cells.

I think the reports when some people take a long time to recover could be due just to a lack of nutrients.

lease wrote:

bell a ruze wrote:

62 tested positive at our high school. Only 2 with symptoms. Several have been at XC practice and have no impacts. One is a 15:30 5k runner.

I am *very* glad to hear that so many came through okay (though of course it would have been better if no one had been infected at all). Another good example of what we already knew: The disease affects different people differently.

Sounds like it affects most people the same way (i.e. not at all).

not gonna get it wrote:

lease wrote:

I am *very* glad to hear that so many came through okay (though of course it would have been better if no one had been infected at all). Another good example of what we already knew: The disease affects different people differently.

Sounds like it affects most people the same way (i.e. not at all).

Haha, perfect response to such sanctimony.

I will provide updates later in the season but it sure looks like the asymptomatic have no impact to running.

really tired - are you running right now or are you still waiting it out?

Not me but several of our runners. None with symptoms and no slow down or fatigue.