#covid fatigue

[16woodsequ]

I had a terrible doctor's appointment yesterday and I cope with memes so here's some highlights:

#covid #covid fatigue #memes #mental health memes #doctor #doctor appointment #meme #funny meme #vent meme

[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.

#long covid #covid #covid 19 #coronavirus #longcovid #chronic illness #covid research #netherlands #news #covid fatigue

[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

#GetBoosted

#Covid apathy #covid fatigue #stress #trauma #PTSD #get vaccinated #Get boosted #Instagram

[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.

#long COVID #chronic fatigue syndrome #myalgic encephalomyelitis #mecfs #me/cfs

[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.

#covid #solidarity #mutual aid #social justice #chronic illness #disability #me/cfs #chronic fatigue syndrome #mask up

[sensitiveheartless]

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#breaking news: local man is confronted with the fact that if he uses dumb contests as an excuse to avoid emotional vulnerability — #then his partner is going to do the exact same thing lol #also covid update: I had a bit of a relapse and have been completely stuck in bed again the last couple days #am still definitely doing better than before but remain very very fatigued #apparently changing my bedsheets was a little much for me lol #anyway thank you to the people who have sent in asks the last couple days!! I am very excited to get to them #I just had to get this self indulgent comic out of my system first lololol #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #soukoku #skk #bungou stray dogs #my art

[drifting-bones]

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

#disability #disabled #physically disabled #me/cfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis #joint pain #joint problems #cripple punk #physical disability #mobility aid #cane user #mobility aid user #ow my joints #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #chronic illness #chronically ill #chronic migraine #long covid

[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

#chronic illness #chronic pain #chronically ill #chronic fatigue #long covid #me/cfs #disability #i can live or i can have a clean house #right now i can't have both

[joseywritesng]

Is the pandemic over? If only it were that simple

Is the pandemic over? If only it were that simple

September 21, 2022 – President Joe Biden says the pandemic is over. According to the World Health Organization, the end is in sight. Many of us prefer to talk about almost anything else, and even New York City has dropped most of its COVID protocols. Biden’s claim (made to reporter Scott Pelley on Sunday) 60 minutes) has once again exploded the debate over COVID-19, even though he has twice now…

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#about #coronavirus #covid fatigue #COVID-19 #pandemic #pandemic over #pray

[gentlemanbutch]

I am so tired of medical professionals. I am so tired of having to try to speak in code so they listen to me, because apparently just outright stating my symptoms is the incorrect way of doing things. I am so tired of trying to give them enough details so they understand, but not too many details, because then they might think I’m dramatic. I’m so tired of them not bothering to learn any of my history and just being told I just need to eat less, or drink more water, or get out and exercise. I’m so tired of having to pretend to not know what I’m talking about. I’m so tired of arrogant pricks who don’t know what’s going on being too proud to refer me fo someone else. I’m so tired of being brushed off if I did my own research or have theories about what’s happening in my own body. I’m so, so goddamn tired of not being believed about the experience of my own life.

For all these providers with enormous fucking power that you use to abuse, gaslight, and dismiss patients who have spent years in pain — I hope you rot.

#ableism #medical trauma #medical gaslighting #health care trauma #chronically ill #chronic illnesses #chronic illness #disabled #disability #disability justice #fibromyalgia #pcos #endometriosis #mecfs #me cfs #chronic fatigue syndrome #myalgic encephalomyelitis #ibs #long Covid #covid #chronic pain #chronic fatigue

[thebibliosphere]

“You’re sitting, but it feels like you’re running for a bus,” she explains. “Your body’s like, ‘You need to stop!’” She compares it to the after-effects of an all-nighter, only she’d had a full night’s sleep beforehand. This lack of explanation was alarming. She couldn’t comprehend why sitting in class was so draining. Naturally, doubts crept into her mind. What if, on some subconscious level, she was faking everything?

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Despite ME/CFS’s low recovery rate, since the late 1980s certain researchers and clinicians, particularly in the UK, have touted two ‘cures’: cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET). The wider ME/CFS community—including clinicians, researchers, and patients alike—discredits both. They’re rooted in the erroneous belief, known as the cognitive behavioural model, that the condition is a psychiatric disorder and its physical symptoms are psychosomatic. “It’s a multi-systemic disease,” says Professor Simon Décary, a University of Sherbrooke physiotherapist who researches long COVID and ME/CFS care outcomes. “There are vascular, neuro-inflammatory, and postural problems. You can’t create these with your brain.” Understandably many patients do develop psychiatric symptoms, but they’re a consequence of their illness.

Just going to leave this here for anyone who needs it.

Bolding mine for emphasis.

#me/cfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis #chronic fatigue syndrome #long covid #it's me #I needed it

[unveilandresist]

thinking about everyone with medical conditions doing their damnedest to avoid covid while living with people who could not give less of a shit about getting themselves and other people sick. you're not alone and you deserve better.

#ableism #chronic illness #disability #masking #me/cfs #long covid #chronic fatigue syndrome #chronically ill #disabled

[prue126]

Honestly, seeing everyone return to "normal" as if the pandemic is over has left me feeling abandoned. Which seems silly, but I don't know how to deal with that.

#pandemic #covid fatigue #covid #mypost

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

On Ed Yong's July article, "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person: Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with #longCOVID & #MECFS experience"

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Screenshot from American ME and CFS Society newsletter

#chronic fatigue syndrome #long covid #chronic fatigue #mecfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis