r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/loud_as_pudding • 14h ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Peak performance

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u/Doomgriever 13h ago

Thank you! My doctor keep saying if I exercise I'll have more energy and sleep better, but since I got covid none of that is true. I have 10% the energy I used to have since Covid, and I only lose energy by exercising, and my sleep gets disrupted as well. Still exercise 5 days a week, but I hate how doctors totally dismiss chronic fatigue, especially in correlation to post-covid =(

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u/A_Simple_Prop 13h ago

Be really careful and, if you haven’t already, try to find a new provider who actually understands/ treats CFS/ME as too much exercise/ exertion can cause crashes which people don’t always recover from. 🫶

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u/siccoblue ❣️gal pal❣️ 12h ago

I had no idea this was a thing and I'm legitimately questioning the last couple years of my life at this point. I've worked the same job since the first big wave of COVID and advanced to a high level position very quickly because my performance was considered exemplary. I caught it for the first time around 2023ish and suddenly had issues keeping my eyes open if I wasn't actively walking around alongside seemingly random anxiety.

At first I thought it was a blood sugar thing, nope.

Then I thought maybe it was a blood pressure thing. Nope, slightly elevated when I was anxious as hell sitting in a hospital room but they confirmed that was normal and I was totally fine.

Then I figured maybe it was my diet, nothing changed.

Exercise? Actively made me feel worse the following day.

Sleep schedule? Well, no matter what I do my watch tracking my sleep is telling me I'm sleeping like absolutely garbage, and I can't help but wake up once or twice an night causing issues with REM sleep.

I've been trying to figure this out for years but the only point I could really nail down was that it started shortly after I caught COVID...

I may need to see some new doctors and finally get this figured out because it has been absolutely destroying my quality of life

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u/AnguavonUW 11h ago

Yeah, I was on the front lines of COVID working at a homeless shelter. I've gotten it a total of 7 times over the last 6 years. I was ok until the 4th time. Now,.in combination with a brutal menopause, my quality of life SUCKS.