Fascinating article on post-exertional malaise in Long Covid

[slab_happy]

Freed from the paywall: https://archive.is/2023.04.27-185140/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-patients-exercise-bad-medicine

I had ME/CFS for several years in my teens, and still have issues with getting very easily fatigued even when I'm "fit" overall. So a lot of this is awfully familiar, and anyone dealing with it has my deepest sympathies.

 

[kelvin]

Learning to 'pace' when you've lived most of your life full on has been easier than I thought it might. The consequences of doing too much and your baseline dropping yet again is not something I'd like to suffer again. Pacing it is.
PEM is hateful.