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What do I need?

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gingertoast · 28/08/2022 11:49

I'm 44, healthy weight, moderately active... usually good health

A few weeks back I had a hideous cold/flu-y thing. I don't think it was covid (LFT's were consistently negative) but it laid me out for 6 days.

Now I just can't get 'right'. I've zero energy, brain is foggy, I feel completely shitty. Yesterday I decided to try and buck myself out of this slump. Went for long drive out in countryside and early dinner in town. Today I'm ruined and can barely move.

I'm eating ok, drinking loads of water, daily berrocca but nothing is helping. What can I do to get better? I'm struggling to concentrate at work and just feel a right miserable cow

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Willdoitlater · 28/08/2022 12:26

Rest, rest and more rest. Any chance you get. Always sit down if you can, don't stand up, in kitchen, bathroom etc. Eating easy to prepare foods is more important than eating healthily. Don't test your limits. Don't think getting moving, getting some fresh air etc will help. Always do less than you can manage. You will probably find it helpful to keep a diary: what you did, for how long, how it made you feel. Rest your brain by meditating, rather than watching TV or reading. This is what people with ME and now sadly long covid, have to do to have any hope of improving. You have probably just got some post-viral fatigue, so it should resolve slowly if you don't over do it. (Not a doctor).

dizzydizzydizzy · 29/08/2022 09:17

Willdoitlater · 28/08/2022 12:26

Rest, rest and more rest. Any chance you get. Always sit down if you can, don't stand up, in kitchen, bathroom etc. Eating easy to prepare foods is more important than eating healthily. Don't test your limits. Don't think getting moving, getting some fresh air etc will help. Always do less than you can manage. You will probably find it helpful to keep a diary: what you did, for how long, how it made you feel. Rest your brain by meditating, rather than watching TV or reading. This is what people with ME and now sadly long covid, have to do to have any hope of improving. You have probably just got some post-viral fatigue, so it should resolve slowly if you don't over do it. (Not a doctor).

This! I was going to say the same and I do have ME.

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gingertoast · 29/08/2022 20:05

Thanks both, I think I was just overly ambitious about a night out! Lesson learned. Had a day of doing naff all yesterday and it was exactly what I needed

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