Article in Guardian: I rested my way to recovery from ‘long-haul Covid’. I urge others to do the same | Fiona Lowenstein

[Invisible Woman]

I rested very well for the first 7 years and reached a level of 80-90% improvement. I don't believe resting for another 5 years would have made any difference in my situation.

When you reached 80-90% improvement - was it that you felt that much better or could do that much more (less the burden of commuting & working) without feeling worse?

 

[Trish]

My n = 1 which I have posted here before, so I won't detail it was this:

PVFS after assumed glandular fever age 28, 6 months bed rest, complete recovery.

PVFS after gut infection age 40, very little rest, pushed myself to keep going, ME still ongoing after over 30 years.

This doesn't prove anything, but I very much wish I had been able to rest properly second time around. Maybe I would still have ME, or maybe that would have been a few months PVFS too.

I think there is some ancedotal evidence of rest helping in reducing the chances of PVFS becoming prolonged for some people, but it's hard to do a prospective study.

 

[Andy]

Trial By Error: Lowenstein’s Guardian Opinion; Eliot Smith’s Post-NICE View; Tack’s Take on Blinding Study

https://www.virology.ws/2021/06/25/...-post-nice-view-tacks-take-on-blinding-study/

 

[Amw66]

Yep, she was staring down the barrel of M.E but craftily managed to disarm it by playing dead. Paul ran away hither and thither, flailing his arms.

Expect responses re the size of the gun .....