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(Anecdote!=data and all) Are there similar stories of lingering pain/symptoms from people who suffered traumatic injuries or survival events? I (35M) fell ill

(Anecdote!=data and all) Are there similar stories of lingering pain/symptoms from people who suffered traumatic injuries or survival events? I (35M) fell ill with covid-like illness and a period of post-fatigue between feb and april and still haven't 'recovered fully'; When I test my body, it's obviously very capable and fit (more than before when I was sick, even) and so I've come to an understanding that I must approach this as something like a trauma that I'm still processing or an injury I'm slowly mending from. If you were in a serious vehicle accident or injure a major muscle group or tear a ligament, your posture and form doesn't just return to pristine form when the body repairs itself, common wisdom would say to go to a physical therapist and practice a set of deliberate exercises designed to restore your strength and help your body re-learn what is a correct form/posture/movement/recruitment. After plenty of injuries, there's an expected "you won't be the same after this" It makes sense to me that something similar is at work here; I wonder, how many of these people are making an unreasonable assumption that they would recover to their full capacity without trying to cultivate it? How much of the association with 'long-term symptoms' is an anxiety/panic/fear/trauma response from grappling with a novel virus which was once advertised as extremely serious and likely fatal?

codezero 6y ago
May be mumbo jumbo but when folks I've talked to had this sort of "phantom illness" they figured it was probably mostly in their head/trauma - this is a resource I've heard multiple people swear buy, though they've said not to get too deep into the dogma of it and if it helps it helps... https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain
- neuronic 6y ago
  Thank you! This article was extremely interesting. I think, after visiting a range of physicians, it's worth approaching my medical issues from a new perspective. I am kind of tired of having pain and discomfort dismissed as imaginary. I covered my bases by having had actual physicians look at me and now I can safely take a new approach without disregarding the advice of medical professionals.

codezero 6y ago

May be mumbo jumbo but when folks I've talked to had this sort of "phantom illness" they figured it was probably mostly in their head/trauma - this is a resource I've heard multiple people swear buy, though they've said not to get too deep into the dogma of it and if it helps it helps... https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain https://aaroniba.net/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain

neuronic 6y ago
Thank you! This article was extremely interesting. I think, after visiting a range of physicians, it's worth approaching my medical issues from a new perspective. I am kind of tired of having pain and discomfort dismissed as imaginary. I covered my bases by having had actual physicians look at me and now I can safely take a new approach without disregarding the advice of medical professionals.