🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized. (This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
Ed, thank you so much for writing about this. Your articles about long covid have been by far the best I’ve read. It’s amazing to feel seen. Please keep up this important work
I appreciate your work so, so much. I don't suffer from these illnesses (yet!) but the ways you've helped us all understand them give me hope for morally centered, humanistic science journalism that drives us to build a more caring world.
The need for rest when sick with Covid cannot be overstated. https://time.com/6215346/covid-19-rest-helps/ All the elected officials who talk about working from home after a positive Covid test send a terrible message. Rest, rest, rest. Thank you for all your invaluable work on Covid.
It could help prevent Long COVID
Thank you so much. This is so helpful! There is so much misinformation about CFS/ME. Most doctors still prescribe Graded exercise therapy that is dangerous for us, while hardly treating the pain and other debilitating symptoms. The stigma and lack of understanding make things so much worse.
There are a number of chronic illnesses where bone crushing fatigue is a prominent feature. We get no help, no understanding. I hope this will change and soon.
Thank you for your work on this. I’ve had ME/CFS since before the days of covid, and there’s still so much that people don’t understand. And we’re, literally, tired of the fight.
This is a great article.
This is excellent Ed, thank you for such a strong synthesis of the science as well as the history. I especially appreciated the point that psychologizing fatigue is a way of shifting responsibility to individuals and letting bosses off the hook. Funny we see leftists carrying water for that POV.
Thank you for this. Your work has been invaluable over the course of this pandemic. I’m downloading the Visible app today, and I appreciate the link to the LDN info now that I started taking it myself a few weeks ago. It gives me greater confidence in that treatment to see you bring it up.
Thank you Ed for all of your thoughtful COVID contributions over the last couple years. Such an important piece!