{"id":8166,"date":"2024-11-20T08:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:25:59","slug":"long-fatigue-the-exhaustion-that-lingers-after-an-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/20\/long-fatigue-the-exhaustion-that-lingers-after-an-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20241119-long-fatigue-the-exhaustion-that-lingers-after-an-infection\">BBC<\/a> <strong>Before Long Covid there was post-viral fatigue \u2013 a mysterious set of illnesses caused by other infections. Now scientists are starting to unravel their secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since an acute infection with Covid-19 in the summer of 2023, Rachael Edwards has been battling a fatigue so crippling that it has left her bedridden for weeks at a time. A previously healthy 31-year-old marketing manager living in Amsterdam, she describes feeling like she is &#8220;weighted down by an anchor&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Long Covid fatigue differs from the exhaustion of parenting newborns or long days at the office in a number of ways,&#8221; says Edwards. &#8220;Imagine you&#8217;ve completed the hardest marathon of your life with poor sleep and no fuel. Then after the adrenaline has worn off, try walking up a flight of 100 stairs. That is how my body feels. My muscles won&#8217;t move. I can&#8217;t even hold my hand above my head,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Covid-19 pandemic came long Covid, the lingering symptoms after an infection with the virus has cleared. Now it is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/21641846.2020.1778227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long Covid<\/a>\u00a0which has opened a new window into the study of post-viral fatigue \u2013 a similar illness of persistent exhaustion which some people experience after recovering from other kinds of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-admin\/post-new.php?post_type=post\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Before Long Covid there was post-viral fatigue \u2013 a mysterious set of illnesses caused by other infections. Now scientists are starting to unravel their secrets. Since an acute infection with Covid-19 in the summer of 2023, Rachael Edwards has been battling a fatigue so crippling that it has left her bedridden for weeks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}