Long covid course

long covid course introduction

Welcome to the long covid course. This course has been designed to help you pace your well-being journey and take one positive step at a time. There is a checklist in each module that will automatically tick as you watch the videos. Once you have watched all of the content, the next module will be made available to you in the menu. Once you have completed this page, please head over to the ‘Health Practitioners’ page in the menu above or select the ‘Next’ arrow button at the bottom of this page.  Remember, you can come back and visit any of the content as many times as you would like. 

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What is long Covid

Long Covid is the body still reacting to the residue of Covid 19 infection. The body displays the signs and symptoms of chronic fatigue that has been caused by the body fighting a viral infection Covid 19.

Chronic fatigue is a feeling of extreme exhaustion that interrupts or stops you from doing everyday activities. The usual things that once refreshed you such as sleep, doing a favourite activity or pastime no longer seem to do so. Some people describe fatigue as having ‘brain fog’, ‘flat batteries’, and ‘being unplugged’.

Sometimes people who have had a viral infection such as COVID-19 experience fatigue once the initial infection has passed. The severity of fatigue is different for everyone. There are essentially 3 levels of Long Covid, level 1. people will still be able to go about their daily lives but have general, yet constant feelings of tiredness. Level 2. people could have more debilitating fatigue, which severely restricts their ability to do everyday activities. Level 3. People with severe fatigue can become almost completely inactive as a result. All levels of impact on Mental and emotional tasks (not just physical tasks) can be very tiring for people experiencing fatigue. This might not have been obvious previously but is entirely normal for those experiencing long Covid fatigue. It is also completely normal to find this period of fatigue distressing.

Why do some people get chronic fatigue and long covid? Understanding why you have become fatigued can, quite naturally, feel very important. The reality is that nobody knows exactly what sets off COVID-19 related fatigue Long covid or why some people are more prone to it than others.

The best guess is that it is likely to be linked to the severity of the inflammatory response that occurs when the body tried to fight the initial Covid-19 infection. This can be most evident in breathing response to exercise or physical activity and tiredness and lack of energy like your body is still fighting a residue of Covid 19 which it is.. It can take far longer to recover from the impact of this inflammation than perhaps people expected.

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