I saw some info suggesting that some of those recovering from the virus are left with ME type symptoms - fatigue, muscle pain etc.
Just wondered if anyone here is now in that stage? In as far as we can guess we’ve had the virus without testing of course.
I am fairly sure I have had it in the last week and although the worst actual symptoms have luckily passed, I’m now feeling exactly as I did in 2012 when I first got sick. That had started as a severe chest infection, and when I never fully recovered I was diagnosed as ME (also now have diagnoses of PoTS and fibromyalgia).
I have had flare ups in the intervening years - usually caused by other illnesses, to the extent even having a cold makes me A Bit Nervous. But nothing, at all, like this. This is like coming down with ME from scratch, all over again. The virus I’ve had (whatever it was - obviously I can’t say for sure) was nothing like I’ve had before either.
It is ridiculously early days clearly, so I’m trying not to be too worried obviously - it could just be that (as usual with any bugs I pick up) I’m taking a little bit longer to heal after the main symptoms have gone. Or it may just be that this is still the actual virus?! But it feels different from when I’ve had even other chest infections since the first one in ways that are very hard to describe so I just wondered if anyone here thinks they’ve had it and is now struggling with similar?
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Post viral fatigue/left with “ME-like” symptoms?
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LaneBoy · 26/03/2020 18:54
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