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A lot of burnout is actually ME/CFS and now possibly Long Covid. ADHD people are more likely to burn out due to shared genetic causes like hypermobile Ehlers Da

A lot of burnout is actually ME/CFS and now possibly Long Covid. ADHD people are more likely to burn out due to shared genetic causes like hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). hEDS is vastly more common than doctors think it is by 100x - so it’s very difficult to get diagnosed. The more common subvariants of hEDS are not even all that hypermobile. This isn’t to say you have hEDS just given ADHS+burnout+reading HN you’re in a riskier category. As for treatments patient forums are far better than doctors with this. It’s important to find the root cause because most people assume they can return to homeostasis simply by doing things to make them healthier, rest, exercise, diet etc. When there is a genetic cause that isn’t an option and more extreme pharmacological interventions are needed.

kiko123 4y ago
+1, there's so much more that may be going on 'under the hood'. Thanks for mentioning ME/CFS and Long Covid. Recently had to quit my job and postpone starting my university studies due to what I (and my doc) suspect to be a pretty severe case of Long Covid. Previously diagnosed with ADHD too, however I do have my own thoughts on that, especially among the rather young demographic I belong. Bottom line is, I have arrived at a point where I can no longer power through or treat the symptoms only. Finding a root cause and healing myself is all I do right now. Even though I'm very young, I've successfully ignored all the warning signs before _something_ took me out completely. I consider it a great lesson, albeit the toughest one I've ever gotten by far. Here's to our healing.
ThrowAway1922A 4y ago
Thankfully I can be confident it's not COVID of any particular length. I have never caught COVID at any point and I actually have the data to back up the claim unlike most people which is helpful since I can rule it out. I'd never heard of the rest of this, but it's quite interesting.
- cjbgkagh 4y ago
  You can get Long Covid from the vaccine, it is being called vaccine injuries. Quite a number of the people in LongCovid support groups have never had Covid and yet acquired Long Covid symptoms shortly after taking the vaccine. I acquired subclinical pericarditis from the vaccine booster. It’s the kind of thing doctors can’t detect in either an Echocardiogram or a MRI so it wouldn’t get included in adverse reaction statistics. It hurt like hell but fortunately was quickly resolved with colchicine. The cardiologist I saw said he was seeing a substantial spike in subclinical pericarditis. Regardless of the cause you can test if you have ME/CFS by doing a max exertion test. Do cardio as hard as you can, and if you can’t get close to the same level two days later then you likely have Post Exertional Malaise (PEM) which is defining characteristic of ME/CFS/LongCovid/VaccineInjury.

kiko123 4y ago

+1, there's so much more that may be going on 'under the hood'. Thanks for mentioning ME/CFS and Long Covid. Recently had to quit my job and postpone starting my university studies due to what I (and my doc) suspect to be a pretty severe case of Long Covid. Previously diagnosed with ADHD too, however I do have my own thoughts on that, especially among the rather young demographic I belong. Bottom line is, I have arrived at a point where I can no longer power through or treat the symptoms only. Finding a root cause and healing myself is all I do right now. Even though I'm very young, I've successfully ignored all the warning signs before _something_ took me out completely. I consider it a great lesson, albeit the toughest one I've ever gotten by far. Here's to our healing.

ThrowAway1922A 4y ago

Thankfully I can be confident it's not COVID of any particular length. I have never caught COVID at any point and I actually have the data to back up the claim unlike most people which is helpful since I can rule it out. I'd never heard of the rest of this, but it's quite interesting.

cjbgkagh 4y ago
You can get Long Covid from the vaccine, it is being called vaccine injuries. Quite a number of the people in LongCovid support groups have never had Covid and yet acquired Long Covid symptoms shortly after taking the vaccine. I acquired subclinical pericarditis from the vaccine booster. It’s the kind of thing doctors can’t detect in either an Echocardiogram or a MRI so it wouldn’t get included in adverse reaction statistics. It hurt like hell but fortunately was quickly resolved with colchicine. The cardiologist I saw said he was seeing a substantial spike in subclinical pericarditis. Regardless of the cause you can test if you have ME/CFS by doing a max exertion test. Do cardio as hard as you can, and if you can’t get close to the same level two days later then you likely have Post Exertional Malaise (PEM) which is defining characteristic of ME/CFS/LongCovid/VaccineInjury.