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Hi all,
What’s the general consensus for time between symptoms/positive result and starting zwift ?( obviously not rising outside)
On day 5 of symptoms and test- really low energy but coming to the end of headaches/rapid pulse/restrictive chest.
Gentle pootle on the bike whilst watching the tour( obviously not on rest day) or just continue to play Lego (with my kids I promise) whikst going stir crazy?
Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated as always...
Try it and see?
Everyone's different.
chill with the kids.
Play Lego with kids? Lego is for adults these days.
Rest.
About 12 month (or more). Just take it easy.
Was about a month for me before I put in anything like any effort.
Just checked Strava, I got covid first week of Jan, did a gentle 20km road ride on 22nd put some effort in on a virtual TT on Feb 13th but I was not at all firing on all cylinders, started to feel back to normal early march.
There is an interesting article on GCN answering this very question. The doctor being interviewed suggested waiting ten days. For me I was back on the bike as soon as the symptoms went and I felt like it. Which was about three days.
About 6 weeks, but as above, everyone is different.
Cheers all for the replies.
Will read the gcn article and maybe just see if I can turn the pedals without coughing up a lung. Will also finish off the boys Lego pirate ship, those are my aims for the day!
As an aside, finally realising the premise of the Lego movie and why the father wants to superglue the Lego.....what takes hours to build is often destroyed in bloody minutes:))
Thanks again all
I can’t read your thread title without hearing it as if spoken by Alan Partridge. And now I have EVERYTHING IS AWESOME playing in my head as well. Curse you.
I'd err on the side of caution. A lot of fit, athletic people who copped long covid say retrospectively that they returned to exercise too soon. It's worth taking it very easy for a few weeks now to avoid months of incapacitation. But everyone's different and the effects of covid aren't yet fully understood.
With long Covid, exercise actually exacerbates the problem (or so I've read).
After I had Covid, my lung capacity was shot for a few weeks.
general consensus
Not really.
🙂
Just do what you feel ready for and be prepared to back it off again.
With long Covid, exercise actually exacerbates the problem (or so I’ve read).
Yeah, based on 15 months of it, I'd say that's pretty much correct. Between March last year and January this year I could basically manage a ten-minute walk around a football pitch. Pre-covid my FTP was just shy of 300 watts and I rode a lot. With hindsight, the point in early May last year when I felt a bit better and did a few 'easy' one-hour rides was possibly instrumental in prolonging things. There's an endurance athlete FB long covid group full of people with very similar stories. Hence, be cautious and listen to your body, particularly after exercise. My experience was that my HR stayed disproportionately elevated after riding or even walking, and with hindsight that was a bit of a red flag.
The thing is though, that understanding of long covid is still pretty sketchy, it may be that I would have got it regardless of what I did. Or not. Clearly there are reasons some get it and some don't, but don't assume that being fit and active means you won't get after-effects, it doesn't seem to work like that.
This is useful guidance and is widely being adopted/suggested https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/19/1174
I have repeatedly read 7-14 days after all main symptoms have passed (as you can't see any cardiac issues from your sofa), with the exception of a dragged out cough. For me, it took 3.5 months before long covid allowed me back on the bike, for 10 mins! I was simply too tired and my lungs just did not work on exertion (my sats etc, etc were all fine)
I simply went on feel and because my infection was far milder than my partner, tried to quickly go back to z4+ efforts up hills. Bizarrely, I had some good power numbers by my own standards a few weeks after infection, but maybe that was adaption from the most intense training schedule I've done to date that ended just before infection.
However, going back to those hard efforts so soon caught up with me, massive fatigue that would take days to recover from instead of ~24 hours.
These days in hindsight I'd suggest doing several weeks of z2, see how that goes and very gradually increase intensity.
To the op, curious to know if you'd been vaccinated?
I've just developed symptoms in the last few days. Probably contracted it in the week before my second vaccine and about 5-6 weeks after the first. Hoping this will equate to milder illness and quicker return to activities but obviously that's not a given. Thus far (day3) it's just been like a mild cold.
I was on the treadmill as soon as I physically could. I'm not suggesting that's a sensible approach, but I go mad if I don't exercise for more than a day or 2 so it's what i did.
Don't have a control test to work out if it made my overall recovery longer of shorter, but I don't think it's done me any harm,though i would say that wouldn't I?!
Had my first vaccination first week of may days after my 45th birthday.second was supposed to be the week after next but I’m told I have to delay no2 until 4 weeks after. Wonder what this effect will have on my immunity, jab1/COVID/jab 2.
Feel worse today than I have done since symptoms started last Tuesday. Having a couple of ciders last night probably hasn’t helped but was very out of breath when tidying all the crap out of the garage, and just have no energy to do anything other than vegetate.
I’m going to leave any phys until I go back to work next Monday. It may be anecdotal but there are too many stories of long COVID, that I’m going to err on the side of caution rather than phys and do something thhat then screws you for longer.
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Wonder what this effect will have on my immunity, jab1/COVID/jab 2.
I'm similar although the line between jab 2 and covid is pretty blurred for me. I almost certainly contracted it in the week prior to vaccine 2 but didn't show symptoms till the week after. I'm a teacher, that was last week of term and there were positive cases in the school.
Bad timing but looking at the positives it's definitely better than having got it before any vaccine. I'm just feeling tired so far but I'm going to take it very easy over the self isolation period, no jumping on the turbo or anything and continue to take it easy after that.
So it’s day ten today. My freedoms day of being let out. But I have slept for half the day, am laying on the sofa watching the tour under a blanket and fairly breathless, needing to work a little harder to breathe. I screwed for a little while arnt i:(?
It has taken me about a year to get back to pre-Covid fitness levels.
It has taken me about a year to get back to pre-Covid fitness levels.
Sorry to hear that. I was well down on pre-covid fitness before I even caught it! Was it bad when you had it? I've just felt a bit spaced out for a week and had a runny nose.
Knocked me out (like an actual bad flu) for about 3 weeks and then I struggled to get going again really. Just no energy or strength. I just accepted my fate and didn't push things. Things seem to be getting back on track again but I'm finding it hard. Probably age-related too.
Glad to hear you're back on track. I'm hoping I'll not be too badly affected but I have heard of a few folks with mild symptoms that just dragged on.
The Mrs has found it even harder to get back to fitness but we've also just found out that she is low on Iron so that's likely a factor.
I've said before that I'm full of sympathy for the younger generations who've had to sacrifice so much this past 15 months or so, but they will have their time. For us oldies it always seems that a year lost has more meaning as we have fewer left in which to make it up 🙂
I didn’t have too bad a time with it. Low energy/constantly knackered, bad headache and general blughness. But the lack of energy and feeling constantly drained is really going to screw me. I start work again on Monday and am on a training course which I’m expected to perform faultlessly for the foreseeable future.
Also référence how this will affect the young. Since as Tired said, this will become /has become endemic, it just means that when the young become older, then they becomes the ones who start succumbing more and more to this bloody illness. Almost to the point where it will cull off the ones who pick up illnesses/comorbidities over time.
Bit of an update,
So 6 weeks after having a mild form of Covid ( fatigue, headaches, just feeling unwell)
Heart rate remains about 15 higher than it normally would be, and any sort of walking upstairs will increase my heart rate to about 130.
Work is stringent so makes me do an ecg( all fine), blood pressure ( slightly higher than normal) spirometer thingy ( pass) but also a sats minute reread 1 min step test.
Failed it last week as my bloody oxygen dropped to 91, and again this week when it went down to 93.
Now I’m 45, fairly fit and moderately healthy. God knows what this is doing to those who don’t get monitored so closely.
Again, tip tip, don’t get it !
Tested positive just over 3 weeks ago. Went through constantly being knackered, no energy etc. for 2 1/2 of those 3 weeks until I started to feel a little better. I'd say I'm about 90% now and will start to introduce exercise back into my routine. Went back to the gym today and did 45 minutes on the treadmill and feel OK. I've had both jabs and am very grateful that I have, dread to think what it would be like with no vaccine in my system.