{"id":47863,"date":"2020-06-23T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=47863"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:26:18","slug":"paul-garner-covid-19-at-14-weeks-phantom-speed-cameras-unknown-limits-and-harsh-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/06\/23\/paul-garner-covid-19-at-14-weeks-phantom-speed-cameras-unknown-limits-and-harsh-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Garner: Covid-19 at 14 weeks\u2014phantom speed cameras, unknown limits, and harsh penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf my husband had said he was still sick with covid-19 after a month, I\u2019d say he was milking it.\u201d Straight talking from a Liverpudlian woman on one of my WhatsApp groups in April when I had been ill for a month; what would she say to me now at 95 days? I am unable to be out of bed for more than three hours at a stretch, my arms and legs are permanently fizzing as if injected with Szechuan peppercorns, I have ringing in the ears, intermittent brain fog, palpitations, and dramatic mood swings. Am I milking it? Is the virus still there? Or do I have CFS\/ME?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am cautious about labelling conditions, particularly with a new virus that has many different effects on our bodies. I tried to avoid the term \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/05\/19\/paul-garner-covid-19-and-fatigue-a-game-of-snakes-and-ladders\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">post-viral fatigue\u201d in an earlier <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article as fatigue was there from day 1, and I was concerned the term could lead to people underestimating other covid related symptoms indicating life-threatening effects. Now, at week 14, my symptoms have progressed. The waves of mind boggling headaches and severe prostration have ebbed. An excellent hospital consultant examined me. \u201cPost-viral fatigue\u201d, he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t need an echocardiogram or CT scan. I recommend rest and pace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I committed to rest in my last article, but let me tell you, pacing is not easy. I held two opposite ideas in my head: the need to convalesce, and that I could truncate the recovery by pushing my limits. But it was as if I was being followed by phantom speed cameras. You don\u2019t know the speed limit and you don\u2019t know when the penalties will arrive. You find out that when they do they are harsh, stopping you in your tracks for days.\u00a0 I have had to reframe my life practically, psychologically, and spiritually. I thank Anna, a friend who is a physiotherapist specialising in rehabilitation, who helped me learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anna explained that the \u201cbusts\u201d can be experienced as a reprint of their entire symptom complex in the acute phase. I had fatigue, headaches and tingling nerves as my main symptom, and that\u2019s what comes back when I overdo it. For a neighbour, who pushed herself to get a contract in to secure her salary, her collapse manifested as severe abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and a sore throat: a complete re-enactment of her initial illness. I learnt that in convalescence after a severe assault, the body goes into protect mode, so if it isn\u2019t getting space to recover, it shuts you down by bringing an embodied memory of the illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once I recognised this pattern, some of the angst among the thousands of \u201clong haulers\u201d on Facebook is explained. Some clearly have symptoms that need investigation and management, and troubling late manifestations of the disease; but for others the return of symptoms, that may include shortness of breath, sore throat, this could be a manifestation of post-viral syndromes. I suspect people recovering at home and their doctors may not recognise this, and thus do not realise it may be exertion\u2014both mental and physical\u2014that is causing their symptoms to return. Without instituting careful pacing, people suffer, and their recovery is delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is worse is that there is increasing evidence that some doctors are dismissing this illness. People write, \u201cI am desperate! My doctor says I have anxiety, but I know this stuff is real\u201d. Health services are largely institutionally prejudiced against people with chronic fatigue and ME, and in some cases these attitudes are framing the service response to covid-19. Yet for us \u201clong haulers\u201d the symptoms are the same, the management schedules are the same, even if we don\u2019t quite fit the somewhat arbitrary definition of \u201cchronic\u201d at 4 months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A post-viral tsunami is hitting our health services right now, yet in the UK it doesn\u2019t even seem to be on the national agenda. NICE have issued 28 rapid reviews and guidance on covid-19 this year, but their guidance on the chronic fatigue syndrome\/mylagic encephalomyelitis is 13 years old. There is little evidence in the UK of a co-ordinated response, that is truly multidisciplinary, involves organizations such as the ME Association, and includes patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Society is acknowledging the \u201clong haulers\u201d but part of the picture is missing. What about people less privileged than us articulate middle classes mobilising ourselves, writing to MPs, and talking to journalists? What about the minority groups, the single parent households, people on zero hours contracts, where long convalescence is not an option? These people are trying to navigate an illness that bites back like a demon if you overdo it, batters you physically and mentally, and leads you to doubt your own sanity. Pushing themselves because they have no choice will lead to further illness, suffering, and distress. They are being left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This stuff is real. People are ill. Doctors need to stop diagnosing this as anxiety. We have messed up before, lets\u2019 not do it again with long term covid-19 illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Paul Garner<\/strong>, Professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is Director of the Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health and Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulgarnerwoof?lang=en\">@PaulGarnerWoof<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>: None declared<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thank Anna Bulley, specialist physiotherapist (rehabilitation and chronic conditions), for her help in my rehabilitation, pacing and teaching me about post-viral illness.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf my husband had said he was still sick with covid-19 after a month, I\u2019d say he was milking it.\u201d Straight talking from a Liverpudlian woman on one of my [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/06\/23\/paul-garner-covid-19-at-14-weeks-phantom-speed-cameras-unknown-limits-and-harsh-penalties\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-perspectives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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