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That's very interesting. I posted the above because I'm researching what's happening to me along with what a long covid specialist told me. I don't know if I

That's very interesting. I posted the above because I'm researching what's happening to me along with what a long covid specialist told me. I don't know if I have the mitochondrial issue yet, but my doctor said I was at risk for Dysautonomia that could progress to POTS if I didn't a, do diaphragmatic breathing exercises, b, avoid weight training, c, do small amounts of cardio. He described anaerobic exercises causing dysautonomia due to the mitochondrial issues I later found the above. And reading what you wrote, I had a very strong reaction to Levofloxacin I was taking for an asymptomatic infection. For 12 hours I had fever, joint pain, nausea, anxiety, headache, chills fever, and it went away, til I took another dose (for the last time ever). My covid experience reposted: Two months ago I caught it, had two weeks of being reasonably sick, the last 10 days being a mean dry cough. Then the shortness of breath began, and the night sweats with the inability to sleep. Also a lot of very deep seated anxiety/ fight or flight feelings. The doctor said Dysautonomia was a very high risk and to avoid any real exercise, especially weight training. I started to feel better and caught a cold which brought back the cough. I don't know what this all means, but it seems likely that: covid affected the nervous system, that it may have caused neurological damage, that it caused long term inflammation...and finally, I'm sorry, but three vaccine shots doesn't prevent this (surely didn't for me). I've learned a lot these past months, and I'm meeting people regularly with dysautonomia symptoms after covid (dizziness, racing heart, shortness of breath). Some of them thought it was the vaccine. Nope, this can start months after infection.

NittLion78 4y ago
I started to have the most minor of flight-or-fight symptoms April 2020. I'm guessing I was exposed to covid then but was asymptomatic. Fast forward to August 2021 and I suddenly couldn't lift weights anymore without feeling like my head lost all oxygen. Like, my body can DO the thing but it will be severely punished for having done so. I've been lucky that I've never had any of the breathing issues, even after I for sure had covid in December of 2021. But the post-anaerobic activity suffering is the worst. The general neurological damage (brain fog, nerve pain, untriggered anxiety) is the most frustrating bit as no one can seem to find the cause of it using any conventional scanning, at least not with me.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  how long after the exposure did the anaerobic intolerance begin? it takes that long to manifest? had you been lifting the whole time and found it suddenly started happening? and how soon after lifting weights do the symptoms begin? Have you tried re conditioning your cardiovascular system with aerobic exercise? If I'm honest reading your message makes me nervous the same will happen to me. I've been able to do some simple calisthenics without obvious fallout so far.
- mancerayder 4y ago
  I recommend: a) go to a Long Covid specialist / center b) get tested for POTS Monitor your heart rate, especially the delta from lying down to standing up for 10 minutes. The metabolic issue discussed in an article is a possibility but Dysautonomia / POTS are worth exploring. What you describe is what the long covid specialist warned me about. I'm a bit shocked that it took a year to manifest.
- trhway 4y ago
  >without feeling like my head lost all oxygen >brain fog, nerve pain, untriggered anxiety that all reminded me the time when i had anemia (for different than covid reason though), and reading symptoms described by others it all very similar to low oxygenation. I wonder if covid screws with oxygenation machinery - either lung function or in some anemic like way. >The most common reported symptom of long COVID is fatigue and the overall symptom picture resembles that of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), which is often triggered by a viral infection. There have been studies connecting the chronic fatigue syndrome to the post-viral infection rage of B-cells which may go for months https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame... - in this and other similar studies they've used cancer (like methotrexate) and/or immune suppressing drugs to kill the B-cells.
  - najarvg 4y ago
    >I wonder if covid screws with oxygenation machinery - either lung function or in some anemic like way. Covid messes around with the oxygenation machinery in multiple possible ways including botching up the lung ability to restrict blood flow to damaged vessels in the lungs, formation of micro-clots in the blood vessels and severely disrupting the normal air-blood flow ratios.

NittLion78 4y ago

I started to have the most minor of flight-or-fight symptoms April 2020. I'm guessing I was exposed to covid then but was asymptomatic. Fast forward to August 2021 and I suddenly couldn't lift weights anymore without feeling like my head lost all oxygen. Like, my body can DO the thing but it will be severely punished for having done so. I've been lucky that I've never had any of the breathing issues, even after I for sure had covid in December of 2021. But the post-anaerobic activity suffering is the worst. The general neurological damage (brain fog, nerve pain, untriggered anxiety) is the most frustrating bit as no one can seem to find the cause of it using any conventional scanning, at least not with me.

mancerayder 4y ago
how long after the exposure did the anaerobic intolerance begin? it takes that long to manifest? had you been lifting the whole time and found it suddenly started happening? and how soon after lifting weights do the symptoms begin? Have you tried re conditioning your cardiovascular system with aerobic exercise? If I'm honest reading your message makes me nervous the same will happen to me. I've been able to do some simple calisthenics without obvious fallout so far.
mancerayder 4y ago
I recommend: a) go to a Long Covid specialist / center b) get tested for POTS Monitor your heart rate, especially the delta from lying down to standing up for 10 minutes. The metabolic issue discussed in an article is a possibility but Dysautonomia / POTS are worth exploring. What you describe is what the long covid specialist warned me about. I'm a bit shocked that it took a year to manifest.
trhway 4y ago
>without feeling like my head lost all oxygen >brain fog, nerve pain, untriggered anxiety that all reminded me the time when i had anemia (for different than covid reason though), and reading symptoms described by others it all very similar to low oxygenation. I wonder if covid screws with oxygenation machinery - either lung function or in some anemic like way. >The most common reported symptom of long COVID is fatigue and the overall symptom picture resembles that of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), which is often triggered by a viral infection. There have been studies connecting the chronic fatigue syndrome to the post-viral infection rage of B-cells which may go for months https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame... - in this and other similar studies they've used cancer (like methotrexate) and/or immune suppressing drugs to kill the B-cells.
- najarvg 4y ago
  >I wonder if covid screws with oxygenation machinery - either lung function or in some anemic like way. Covid messes around with the oxygenation machinery in multiple possible ways including botching up the lung ability to restrict blood flow to damaged vessels in the lungs, formation of micro-clots in the blood vessels and severely disrupting the normal air-blood flow ratios.