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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by thematrixturtle on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:16AM (#30299587)
This isn't really specific to COVID though, any serious illness can do a real number on you.

Anecdote: I'm an avid runner and cyclist, but after I had dengue fever, it took me months to regain my fitness. I used to run 10K's before breakfast, but the first time I attempted a 5 km walk afterwards, I was basically comatose for the rest of the day.

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by dotancohen on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:07AM (#30302271)
I was never an avid runner, but I would jog in the morning sometimes. It was supposed to be a habit, but never was.

I noticed a huge difference in performance before and after getting sick with Epstein Barr in 2017. Even years later I've never returned to the same performance. Maybe related, maybe not, but that's how it looks to me with my sample size of one.

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by agumonkey on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:50AM (#30299872)
It would be interesting (to at least one person) to have good rehab plans. How long did it take for you to go back to easy 10Ks
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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by lobocinza on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:09AM (#30300006)
When I got dengue I was really bad for a few days but quickly recovered and actually improved my fitness/health due to changing lifestyle (so it's biased). Wasn't it chikungunya?
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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by thematrixturtle on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:47AM (#30301414)
Nope, confirmed with blood test. Dengue is quite weird though, it's asymptomatic for most people who get it, under a percent get hemorrhagic shock and end up in hospital, and the rest like me are anywhere in between.
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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by ryanbrunner on Thursday February 17, 2022 @07:14PM (#30380633)
Post-viral conditions happen, yeah, but the percentages coming out of long COVID studies as well as the sheer number of anecdotes everyone has seems fairly novel. At the very least, even if there's a similar prevalence of these issues for COVID, the sheer amount of infections is going to mean this is a larger concern for COVID than other viruses.
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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by x86_64Ubuntu on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:27PM (#30306609)
People talk about NEVER recovering their previous cardio performance after a COVID infection. No one expects anyone to be seriously sick, and then have anything resembling their previous performance levels when they first start back.
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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by johnisgood on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:35PM (#30306689)
> People talk about NEVER recovering their previous cardio performance after a COVID infection.

And how would they know, really?

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Re:Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case by x86_64Ubuntu on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:38PM (#30314587)
Because it's been years since their infection and they haven't recovered it yet.
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