Covid Fatigue Quotes

It's extraordinary how many people have a postviral syndrome that's very strikingly similar to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

But the fatigue of physical dysfunction, I came to recognize, is as different from normal sleep deprivation as COVID-19 is from the common cold. It was not caused by needing sleep, I thought, but by my body’s cellular conviction that it needed to conserve energy in order to fix whatever was wrong. The feeling erased my will, the sense of identity that drives most of us. The worst part of my fatigue was the loss of an intact sense of self.

During my time of need, the medical system failed me.

Through sickness I became notable.

Money helps, but being sick makes life hard.

Do you find it strange that the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in just one year but Long COVID is still a mystery to the medical profession?

I wouldn't work in a hospital again! They do not tell you about the high disease risks when they hire you. It is well known that hospital jobs are lemons today with the pandemic. One of my coworkers was suffering with chronic fatigue from her thirties onward. She has never been healthy since working there. She probably had an infection from a sickly patient and never recovered.

it is not a season you have either wanted or chosen. It is a very real, very painful, very present and very costly season.

I started to see a serious decline in health in high altitude professional astronomy. Most noticeable was the onset of constant fatigue, memory issues and confusion. The condition progressed during my time in the commercial and utility solar industry where I started falling asleep at work and developed hot skin. The doctors tested me and said I had shift work disorder in 2008 and vitamin D and Vitamin B12 deficiencies in 2011. In 2015 I had a COVID-19 like sickness that made everyone in the family really sick. I never recovered and this started regular visits to the doctors. They diagnosed severe sleep apnea and mental illness and prescribed a CPAP machine. Under the care of the doctors I became much sicker on their prescription drugs and treatments. I eventually got smart and figured out I was not going to recover under their care and they may actually kill me! In 2021, moving to Hawaii island revealed that I had ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ and a high altitude commuting disease called ‘Magee’s Disease’. By the end of 2023 I had developed the treatments for these conditions and made a reasonable recovery. There is no cure for either condition. They are life-long illnesses. I now have to live well below 1,000 feet near sea level and take the treatments for the rest of my life. I documented the conditions in the books ‘Toxic Altitude’ and ‘Magee’s Disease’. The treatments for the hypoxic high altitude damage appeared transferable into COVID-19 and Long COVID and these are documented in the books “COVID Supplements” and ‘Long COVID Supplements’.

Chemical menopause is remarkably like Long COVID.

Summary of COVID-24: SARS-CoV-3 is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3. Common symptoms include fever, sweating, sneezing, coughing, sporadic nerve pain across the extremities and fatigue. While we are still in the early stages of understanding this virus, most cases identified to date have resulted in mild symptoms that appear to resolve themselves without the need for medical intervention. However, an unknown percentage of people infected have experienced acute respiratory distress syndrome, requiring medical intervention. In China, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom, there have been reports of some patients suffering from multiple organ failure, to include septic shock. At this present time, we are unable to determine how contagious the virus is or its incubation period. Until more of this information can be identified, the CDC recommends issuing a level 2 travel advisory for China, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Byung-Chul Han is right when he points out that Covid fatigue is much greater in developed Western societies because citizens there, more than elsewhere, live under the pressure of the compulsion to achieve:

The COVID-19 vaccine was an essential requirement for my compromised immune system.

It seems the medical profession gave Long COVID the name of Chronic Fatigue and feigned not knowing what caused it for decades, even though Coronavirus was discovered in the 1960’s!

Progressing food intolerance that would trigger fatigue and sleepiness was a big feature of my Long COVID symptoms.

During the lockdowns, video conversations were for many a personal and professional lifesaver, allowing us to maintain human connections, long-distance relationships and connections with our colleagues. But they have also generated a phenomenon of mental exhaustion, popularized as “Zoom fatigue”: a condition that applies to the use of any video interface

how could a viral infection mimic moderately severe depression? I reflected on my own symptoms during a recent bout of the flu: low mood, anhedonia, increased sleep, fatigue and a complete loss of appetite. In fact, most of the symptoms one experiences during the acute stages of an infection seem more ‘mental’ than physical. Whether you have Covid, cholera or the common cold, ‘sickness behaviour’ – how we feel and act when fighting an infection – is universal. It seems that your immune system is recruiting your brain to produce behaviours that aid your defence: primarily, wrapping up warm and staying in bed. Indeed, an increasingly accepted hypothesis is that sickness behaviour provides a survival advantage both for the individual – in saving energy to fight off the infection – and also for the herd at large: a state of mind that makes you feel low, withdrawn and tired is one that will restrain you from heading out to the party and sharing your virus with your tribe of revellers. But there was something else in Emma’s story that stayed with me. It was a brief, throwaway comment she had made in our first session, when I was exploring her previous relapses of depression: ‘It’s a bit weird, but whenever my depression comes back, or whenever I’m stressed, my eczema flares up.’ She rolled up the sleeve of her jumper to reveal a raw, red forearm. It was here, in a fairly unremarkable case study of someone undergoing CBT for depression, that I had my first glimpse of a ‘bidirectional’ relationship between the immune system and the mind. Emma’s immune system had recruited her brain – more specifically her thinking, feeling mind – to help deal with a viral infection, but her mind had also activated her immune system, causing skin inflammation. I was peering behind the curtain of my medical training: a relationship between the immune system and mental health was completely absent from all of my medical school textbooks.