ME/CFS
Mild → no benefit
ME/CFS exercise intolerance: one gym session brings frightening flu-like symptoms
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Mild (working or studying, with limits)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Last post
- Feb 2025
In their words
- At worst: Mild
Currently, just going to the gym once leaves me with flu-like symptoms.
In context ↗ - Now: No benefit
Currently, just going to the gym once leaves me with flu-like symptoms.
In context ↗
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Summary
Reddit user said longer rest periods mostly left them feeling fine, but they are intolerant to exercise itself. Currently, going to the gym once leaves them with flu-like symptoms, which they find frightening.
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What they tried
Also tried
rest periods· Helpedgoing to the gym· Worse
Their words about each treatment
- rest periods · Helped
Hey I have done rest periods for longer times. During those periods I feel fine mostly.
In context ↗ - going to the gym · Worse
It is really the exercise itself that I'm intolerant to. Currently, just going to the gym once leaves me with flu-like symptoms.
In context ↗
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Post-exertional malaise
It is really the exercise itself that I'm intolerant to. ... Currently, just going to the gym once leaves me with flu-like symptoms.
In context ↗ - Flu-like symptoms
just going to the gym once leaves me with flu-like symptoms
In context ↗