>>13434111i got it. i know a couple other people who got it. it sucks. it's been 9 months now, still cant ride my bike more than a mile (previously 20+miles per day). 32 yrs old, average health. not an ultra marathon runner or anything, but no pre existing conditions. got covid twice. the first time march 2020 put me out for like a week. 2nd time in november, completely incapacitated me for like 3 months, and now has left me pretty disabled for another 6.
as i understand it, there are several clusters of symptom responses, and they all have different treatments, timelines, and effects.
for me, any time i exercise, lift more than about 5 lbs, do any heavy motor activity like video games, guitar, painting, etc i get severe inflammation responses. sometimes minutes later, sometimes days later. for exercise, it manifests as heart inflammation, feeling like a slow 6 hour heart attack that eventually goes away. for the other stuff, it manifests as sharp pains beneath the muscle tissue akin to stabbing with a knife while the area more generally feels like its on fire.
other clusters get brain fog and confusion, likely due to swelling in the brain, while yet more clusters get severe fatigue or stomach pain. almost all clusters are beleived to likely be the result of runaway inflammation.
the working hypothesis is left over protien spikes scattered throughout cells. as those cells get activated, the immune system sees the spikes and goes after them, attacking the healthy cells they are embedded in. this might also explain why the vaccines have been starting to cause some long covid type symptoms now being nicknamed "vaccine syndrome", because the protient spikes used to encode the vaccine are themselves harmful and dont stay at the injection site like previously thought.
