People affected by post-COVID-19 fatigue recover more slowly than those suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, Rossello, 2021, current study

[Sly Saint]

The researcher of the Biological Foundations of Mental Disorders group and head of the Central Sensitisation Syndrome section at the University Hospital of Santa Maria de Lleida, Lluís Rosselló, has presented the study.

‘Evaluation of respiratory, metabolic and metabolomic physiological characteristics in patients with fatigue post COVID-19, compared to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome', this is the title of the project led by the researcher of the Biological Foundations of Mental Disorders group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida) and head of the Central Sensitization Syndrome section of the University Hospital of Santa Maria de Lleida, Lluís Rosselló. The first conclusions of the study indicate that there are important differences between the physiological and metabolic assessments between COVID-19 patients and those with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy patients, pending the metabolomic study that could provide more information on the mechanisms.

To date it has been observed that people who have passed the COVID-19 have lower oxygen utilisation values than those of chronic fatigue syndrome, already described in our previous studies; that most of the COVID-19 group do not reach the level of maximum effort due to muscle claudication, and that post-exertion recovery is slower than the other two groups, as explained Rosselló, at a press conference at the Diputació de Lleida with the president of the Diputació de Lleida, Joan Talarn, accompanied by the deputy of Public Health, Albert Bajona.

full article here:
https://www.irblleida.org/en/news/1...those-suffering-from-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

eta: "The work has been done on 22 people from a post COVID-19 group, 22 patients with symptoms of chronic fatigue"

 

[Wonko]

This seems 'unlikely' and is probably the result of 'research' carried out at the behest of....

I have ME, I have had ME since 1987.

I have not 'recovered'.

The number of pwLC who have not recovered after 34 years is nil.

Therefore.....

Maybe this is talking about chronic fatigue, and not chronic fatigue syndrome, ME, ME/CFS, or even CFS/ME?

In which case.....

 

[EzzieD]

Er, what? As Wonko rightly pointed out, nobody has had LongCovid for decades yet, so how can the two recovery rates be compared? This indicates that they don't know what chronic fatigue syndrome is, which does not instill confidence in the rest of the study...

 

[Trish]

I think they are talking about recovery from episodes of PEM, not complete recovery back to healthy.

 

[Wonko]

I think they are talking about recovery from episodes of PEM, not complete recovery back to healthy.

So people without years of experience in minimising PEM, who don't know at least some of the warning signals, tend to be in PEM for longer than people who have lived with it for a 'while'?

Seems a 'redundant' study in that case.

To me.

People who've had a year or 3s experience driving cars probably have less accidents than someone who, up until a few months ago had no idea what a car was, as well.

 

[Forbin]

So people without years of experience in minimising PEM, who don't know at least some of the warning signals, tend to be in PEM for longer than people who have lived with it for a 'while'?

Pretty much what I was thinking: Were the CFS patients as newly diagnosed as the LC patients? I know CFS patients can decline over the years, but the first 2 or 3 were the worst for me. Also how does possible recent lung injury in LC play into oxygen utilization?