How to get through Covid fatigue - have patience and rest or push on through?
Getting covid for the first time was a bit of a shock, having managed to escape it for two and a half years. I had just come back from a nourishing Ayurvedic retreat in Herefordshire and had been feeling relaxed and well. A few days later, however, I rapidly felt ill with the classic signs: sore throat, fever and aching muscles. I just knew that I finally had covid. It was definitely more flu-like than a sniffly cold and took well over ten days to be out of bed very much. But nearly six weeks on, I am still on the slow path to recovery... I keep telling myself that I am slowly improving. The constant headache around the front of my head finally subsided which was a relief. The muscle aches are less common. I still cough, especially if I overdo things. But the main thing left is the fatigue. Like fatigue I have never experienced before. It is not being tired nor low energy. It feels like a strange creature has come to hang out in my body for a while. Yet the fatigue also f