sebaaa
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I know this is similar to another thread by @rvallee but I think the poll warrants its own thread.
I don't think I can properly recover from exercise. I feel like I never improve. It doesn’t matter if it’s swimming, running or pushups and pullups. I feel the lactic acid, and I always seem to move back to the baseline but never beyond. This has been the case for the last 10 years of my ME/CFS. I don’t know if this is connected to PEM or not.
If people with ME/CFS were able to recover from exercise why would GET be problematic? It seems like you could just push through the PEM symptoms as long as your muscle recovers. To me the fact that GET is harmful means that there has to be something fundamentally wrong with muscle in ME/CFS. I think the cases of permanent worsening of symptoms from GET are related to this.
Hanson’s urine metabolomics study might have something to do with this “inability to recover” issue.
Edit: By "exercise," I mean activity that increases capacity to exert. The goal should be to move past the baseline, hence the recover AND improve part. Where the baseline is, should not matter. An example would be weightlifting or running, and improving at those activities, which implies recovery of course. You should improve regardless of the intent of the exercise. That's how it should work for a healthy person.
Also, the title and poll refers to muscle recovering and improving. A localized effect. I'm not referring to the disease itself improving from exercise.
I don't think I can properly recover from exercise. I feel like I never improve. It doesn’t matter if it’s swimming, running or pushups and pullups. I feel the lactic acid, and I always seem to move back to the baseline but never beyond. This has been the case for the last 10 years of my ME/CFS. I don’t know if this is connected to PEM or not.
If people with ME/CFS were able to recover from exercise why would GET be problematic? It seems like you could just push through the PEM symptoms as long as your muscle recovers. To me the fact that GET is harmful means that there has to be something fundamentally wrong with muscle in ME/CFS. I think the cases of permanent worsening of symptoms from GET are related to this.
Hanson’s urine metabolomics study might have something to do with this “inability to recover” issue.
Edit: By "exercise," I mean activity that increases capacity to exert. The goal should be to move past the baseline, hence the recover AND improve part. Where the baseline is, should not matter. An example would be weightlifting or running, and improving at those activities, which implies recovery of course. You should improve regardless of the intent of the exercise. That's how it should work for a healthy person.
Also, the title and poll refers to muscle recovering and improving. A localized effect. I'm not referring to the disease itself improving from exercise.
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