Paul Garner's Story
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 10 months
- Published
- Undated
Summary
He credits a mind-body approach, working with an unnamed practitioner who had himself recovered from ME/CFS, using relaxation techniques and reinterpreting his symptoms as a stress response, alongside a gradual return to exercise from gentle activity up to military fitness training; no specific named program, clinic or practitioner is given. He developed COVID-19 in March 2020 and was severely fatigued and cognitively impaired, with chest tightness, tachycardia, brain fog, tinnitus and joint pain, for about 10 months before recovering. He says he is now "back to normal," with only occasional fatigue similar to a healthy person, and states recovery is possible. He did have a temporary setback after contracting dengue fever on holiday, which worsened his fatigue, but he says he applied the same recovery principles to overcome it. No further follow-up or ongoing maintenance practice beyond this is mentioned.
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Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Brain fog, POTS & dysautonomia, Pain & fibromyalgia, Tinnitus.