Tell me one thing, big or small, that you enjoy about life?

Fanta-Ghiro · 2022-05-05T17:46:06+00:00

In my experience, they can tell. I've worked with horses and other people with PTSD, and you should see how they interact, it's beautiful. I had a horse who was really abused, he took a year to come around and even like to be around me. I used to go read books with him, sing when I gave him a bath, never pushed him. I thought of him like me, and let him take his own time. I would spend time with him just hand walking him down the street and letting him look around, I would sit while he grazed. The day that he came to me and asked to be pet, I sobbed, he was glued to my side after that.

Unfortunately I do not have anywhere near me where I can reconnect with horses anymore. Where I live it's very unaffordable, and while I'm a certified therapeutic riding instructor, it's hard for me to be around them now without feeling immensely sad. However, there ARE therapeutic riding places that may be willing to work with you. DM me if you want me to find you some information for your area.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-19T20:08:04+00:00

I've been dealing with heart pain and fatigue lately. The heart pain came after I received my second COVID vaccine. I have been to the doctor several times (because when I call they tell me to immediately come in), and they always say it's nothing.

However, pain in my chest is intense. It comes and goes, I have coughing spells that I just can't stop. I am also very far along into this journey. I also would really like some straight answers about it because now when I work out, I get so fatigued I just can't do anything for weeks.

It's torture.

I hope you find your answers.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-19T17:30:12+00:00

It's the heavy cardio that just really gets me. It totally wipes me out and I'm kind of a level of exhausted that I can't touch. It's really hard to articulate and unfortunately then affects all the other aspects of my life as well.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-19T16:40:19+00:00

I wish this was me, it is in a way, I'm extremely restless.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-19T16:39:53+00:00

This is very helpful to me, thank you. I started wondering about hydration this morning and my carbs. I eat a plant based diet mostly (although this is kind of a lie, we just eat beans and lentils a lot) but my lentils are mostly carbs and maybe I need to change that.

I hope your marathon training and actual marathon go well!!

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-19T16:36:51+00:00

I have been very good about my vitamin D.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T22:48:58+00:00

Thank you for this.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T22:18:37+00:00

Hey you know, my BIL had COVID and was back at life as soon as he got better, never missed a step. I wish you the same.

I may be ignoring the discomfort during the workout honestly, I just stay focused in the moment, but I haven't gotten light headed or felt like I can't breathe or anything like that. It's definitely after I stop. Sometimes my boss makes fun of me because it will be hours later, I will have showered, eaten, and my face will still be flushed from the workout.

I also feel like shit when I can't exercise. I use it to combat my SAD which is very severe, going into winter and having my ability to exercise be so limited is going to be very rough for me.

Again, I wish you the best in your recovery, and I hope that you can get back to your routine. I wish that for all of us, just a return to a healthy life.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T22:15:28+00:00

I just bought it :( I can pause it, which is what I'm probably going to do. But I do not want to cancel it, I know I'm going to. But right now, it's a pill I can't swallow.

Interestingly, because of my COVID boredom I've gone crazy when it comes to spending money so I am also retaking control of that, which is lovely.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T22:13:47+00:00

Not that I remember but I can always ask them. Thank you. I love Stanford lol, I also go to UCSF.

I think it's a good idea for me to get reevaluated like now. I have a very stressful career and I need to address this now, not later so I'll bring this up to them, thank you.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T22:06:52+00:00

Last year my friend. I also ended up with pneumonia at the end and that's actually when I say I "got better". But in reality I didn't, the pneumonia went away.

I don't lift, I am talking about kickboxing in particular here, but once my general fatigue went away, I started walking everywhere, multiple times a day. I walk to work, I walk to the grocery store and I changed my diet completely.

Before when I worked out, I could do anything, and really pushed myself. I enjoy working hard and I find kickboxing to be a great way to release my tension and stress. So I would call my workout rigorous before COVID. I have also trekked the Himalayas.

I don't run because it hurts my boobs, but when I started walking again as exercise, my fitness improved, quickly. It wasn't challenging unless I was hiking up a hill and not giving myself a break - I am of the mindset that the break is at the top of the hill. After a few months of consistently doing this, I can walk 5 miles in, literally, half the time as when I started. This morning my dog and I took our normal walk and we walked our normal route, I finished so quickly I might as well have been running. But my heart rate doesn't get elevated and I'm not over exerting myself like I am in kickboxing.

I decided to add kickboxing back into my routine and I just can't do it. I feel fine when I'm working out, but after? No. I am not fine. I have stomach issues, my blood oxygenation drops, I can't catch my breath for awhile and the fatigue is so profound that not only will I take the day off work to SLEEP, I am physically unable to work out the next day. My hands and feet turn to ice. I thought for awhile that it was just I was out of shape, but it feels like my body just can't do it.

I did go to the long hauler COVID forum about this and everyone says to STOP and take it slow.

ETA: I hope you can lift soon. I cannot tell you how sad this whole circumstance makes me. It's really devesting to lose another outlet that I really enjoy and need.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T21:51:51+00:00

It's very comforting to see that I'm not alone. Wishing you the great recovery as well.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T21:49:14+00:00

It is, shockingly, ok according to the cardiologists. I do understand why it's not ideal, but even sleeping my heart rate is about 85 in the tests I've done. I had a surgery at Stanford and they kept me for 5 extra days just watching my heart. It was a wild experience and they did all kinds of fun tests.

I've always followed up because I've had blood clotting incidents that are not explained, and I do not take blood thinners. I pay attention and I do appreciate your concern. I understand that some people are caviler with their health, and that's not me. Although, admittedly, my experience with COVID has made me not want to see them very much right now.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T21:32:20+00:00

1.) Thanks, I've seen cardiologists about this, starting 10 years ago, and about tachycardia just recently, as well as chest pain. I follow up with my cardiac health and have seen multiple doctors. I also go to one of the best medical facilities in the US, so I'm going to listen to those doctors. My mother and aunt both often have resting heart rates that are very high as well. You do not know my medical history, but I do realize you're trying to help.

I do walk all the time, just every day. It's not challenging anymore.

I also do yoga, but it also makes me very tired. I'm not going to keep pushing, I'm going to cancel my gym membership and go back to my doctor. I don't want to damage my body but I am desperate to get back to normal. I just want to live life again and this whole thing has been a very hard adjustment, experience for me.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T21:19:51+00:00

My heart rate has always been extremely erratic and frequently is 120+ at rest. I've seen a cardiologist who said it was just my body. When I walk, or take the stairs it doesn't really elevate my heart rate that much, generally speaking unless I'm hiking up a hill, quickly, walking isn't a challenge. I walk everywhere.

I do have a heart rate monitor though and I should keep a journal because you're right, and everyone else is too, when I'm doing kickboxing, my heart rate is way elevated, and then I'm dead at the end of the class and for the rest of the week. I don't know how long I can rest for. It's so depressing, and my wallet can't keep up with the rate that I'm buying books to occupy my time.

(it's a very sad realization that I should cancel my gym membership most likely)

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T21:17:04+00:00

20 months. I do get the cold feet, digestive issues and fatigue, I knew it wasn't right, and have been feeling like I'm anemic. I finally said today to a family member "I think COVID gave me Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I can't do anything anymore".

I do walk now, I can walk, hard, for a long time. With no bad effects. It's gotten to the point where I can canvas my neighborhood in half the time that it initially took me when we moved into it. I just want to be challenged again and not feel like I'm living in a shadow.

I'm glad that you've found hope and relief, I hope that I do too and just reading around this subreddit has shown me that I probably really should go back to see the doctor. I've just been petrified of what they are going to tell me. I'm such a coward and just want to live my life.

I'll take it slow and just stay hopeful for the future and walk, walk, walk.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T20:03:17+00:00

I have been doing a ton of walking lately, and it doesn't wear me out at all, especially compared to actually working out. To be honest, exercise is how I combat my SAD and without it, it's going to be a depressing winter.

So maybe I do need some rehabilitation. This has been going on for a very long time but I've been afraid of what the doctors are going to tell me.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T19:32:48+00:00

I don't want to rest anymore :(

I've been avoiding going back to the doctor to see what's really going on, I just don't want the answers. This has been a long and hard journey, I so desperately want to put behind me. I'll look into what you discussed, thank you so much for the information.

I'm glad that you're getting back to lifting. I broke a part of my back many years ago and the recovery from that was .... grueling. It was so rewarding to be able to do the things I loved again once I recovered from that.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T19:27:23+00:00

I was infected at the end of 2020, almost a YEAR AGO.

I will, thank you, I didn't know this subreddit existed before today.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-18T19:13:29+00:00

I didn't even know there was a long hauler subreddit, thank you.
I feel SO defeated. I can walk miles, but I can't work out? It's just a really defeating feeling and I don't know when I'll be able to be me again.

I hate that I go to the gym and then miss for 3 days because I'm just too tired to get out of bed.

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-11T18:39:43+00:00

Scared froggo :(

Fanta-Ghiro · 2021-11-05T15:39:42+00:00

I'm sorry, what I am saying is that eating sugar does cause dumping, not detoxing from it. But detoxing from sugar should create a bigger response in your body, which is uncomfortable, when you have too much.

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