Long COVID brain fog, now nearly normal after stress test and harder workouts
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- 18 months
- Last post
- Jun 2023
In their words
- Now: Near normal
Now I'm feeling nearly normal.
In context ↗ - Began after: COVID
didn't know if COVID was to blame because I had not had it in over 18 months
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Summary
A Reddit user who had COVID-19 more than 18 months before posting in June 2023 described brain fog and unclear symptoms they suspected were long COVID. A cardiac stress test found nothing wrong, but pushing their heart rate to 180 and above during it, then doing increasingly harder workouts, coincided with the fog lifting and things getting better. They reported feeling nearly normal at the time of writing.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- high intensity work out · Helped a lot
One of the things I found that really helped me was getting high intensity work out.
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Approaches: Exercise and activity
Their path
How ill they were on the ME/CFS severity scale, estimated from what they describe at each point, with time counted from when the illness began. Hover or tap a point. The chart starts 18 months after onset: the story doesn’t say how ill they were before that. 1 step says too little to place on the scale and is only in the table. Dates are when they posted. What the levels mean.
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| When | What happened | Where they were | After |
|---|---|---|---|
| before December 2021 | COVID-19 infection, then brain fog and unexplained symptomsdidn't know if COVID was to blame because I had not had it in over 18 monthsIn context ↗ | Not stated | |
| by June 2023 | stress test and high-intensity workouts; things started getting betterOne of the things I found that really helped me was getting high intensity work out.In context ↗ | Mild | Everyday exercise and activity |
| 2023-06-08 | feeling nearly normal after increasingly intense workoutsNow I'm feeling nearly normal.In context ↗ | Near normal | Everyday exercise and activity |
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Brain fog
for me the fog lifted after really intense exercise
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