Comparing acute sickness symptoms with ME/CFS

And no one is going to let you go into the workplace etc

 

Funny isn’t it given the 2007 guideline was I assumed at the time a giant lab test of seeing what happens if they changed the culture around us so our only option was to never rest gif anything ever

until I realised no one was allowed to write down the results if you gif worse or didn’t improve

 

You see reading the table of physical activity and having driven long distances id slot in 250 miles particularly in an older car as just under the 4 manual labour one. It involves mental concentration too of course but sitting driving that long isn’t not physical either

 

10-100w in 10 min is fairly modest for healthy people. They could study the effect of moderate exercise on cold/flu patients without too much issue, I'd think. Recruiting patients could be a bigger problem. Cold/flu only last a week and the infection would be over by the time they are recruited. Not too many would be interested either in something that is not much benefit to them.

Yeah, I remember that. It's possible that those two cases may have already developed me/CFS while they are still infected with COVID. That's more plausible explanation to me since we don't have any report of PEM in cold or flu

 

Compared to costs of running a study, it’s not that much to pay each participant 100 USD equivalent which is probably going to be a motivator.

 

Nope, certainly not while you have fever or first a few days of infection. But I was able to get back on the trail on the second week of COVID with the drained/exhausted feel and all. I was a little afraid of relapsing into MECFS, but hiking 8 miles up the mountain didn't cause PEM nor relapse

 

It would be interesting. Would have to keep in mind differences between infections. As the book above discussed, exercise only worsens health in some infections. E.g. it seems to be the case in polio, but not TB. So just recruiting based on a "cold" may cause too much variance to be useful.