Browsing Archive: July, 2020

Covid-19, post-viral fatigue and chronic fatigue - Part 3

Posted by Paul Samael on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, In : Random thoughts

This is the third and last in a series of posts about my experience of both post-viral and chronic fatigue, prompted by media reports that quite a few people who’ve had Covid-19 seem to be having similar problems. Click HERE for Part 1 and HERE for Part 2. In this one, I’m going to focus on treatment – and in particular, whether there is anything other than rest/relaxation, pacing and/or the passage of time which might help.

The main treatment recommended by the NHS is pacing, which i...

Covid-19, post-viral fatigue and chronic fatigue - Part 2

Posted by Paul Samael on Monday, July 20, 2020, In : Random thoughts

This is the second in a series of posts about my experience of both post-viral and chronic fatigue, prompted by media reports that quite a few people who’ve had Covid-19 seem to be having similar problems with fatigue and a peculiar range of other ongoing symptoms. Click HERE for Part 1. In this one, I’m going to focus on the frustrating lack of a proven medical explanation for what causes post-viral or chronic fatigue (and how, with no clear explanation, it’s difficult to know what m...

Covid-19, post-viral fatigue and chronic fatigue - Part 1

Posted by Paul Samael on Sunday, July 19, 2020, In : Random thoughts

There’s been an increasing amount of media coverage of people taking a very long time to recover from coronavirus/Covid-19 and reporting a wide range of symptoms, but particularly fatigue. As far as I know, I haven’t had Covid-19– but I have been diagnosed in the past with both post-viral fatigue (on several occasions) and, more recently, with chronic fatigue. So I thought I would write about those experiences in a series of posts, if only to reassure people suffering with similar pro...

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Paul Samael

Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.