I am NOT a doctor, and please do NOT take this as medical advice, but do know that mild LVH is a normal physiological adaptation/response to exercise in many people, myself included.
What caused you to be diagnosed, if you don’t mind me asking?
Thanks for the reply
I was having heart/left side of heart niggles and minor pain from August 20. Something which i have never suffered from. After visiting my GP, I was referred for a heart scan, not the full on one. GP said everything was fine, other than the mild thickening of the left ventricle.
I asked if I could start traing again including running, GP stated yes.
Still not right, I feel as though I`ve aged 10 years since last March, I genuinley dont think the long covid will ever go to be honest.
The light headedness is killing me, from reading up on the topic, it sounds like a cytokine storm kicks off after moderate exercise… fun times
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I’m hopeful that for those of us experiencing longer-term issues from the virus that our health will mostly return eventually. It may take 2-3 years, and we may not be able to treat our bodies as extreme exercise machines like before. But I think we’ll be able to be active within limits. No more 5 hour bike rides, marathons or Ironmans, more like 30-45 minute moderate sessions on the trainer. New hobby time, my friend.
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I had nine months of believing that I’d never get back to where I was, though I’m starting to believe that I can now. For some it may take a chunk longer, but I definitely wouldn’t give up hope.
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I need to do an FTP test to be sure, but I believe I’m basically back to where I was before getting COVID (at least in longer term power output). Possibly psychological, but I really do believe that the vaccinations made a difference.
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Has anybody had any eye issues since having covid? The week before I got covid my eyes were super red and goopy…I thought I may have caught it through my eyes. Ever since my eyes have been very dry and dont tolerate contact lenses for more than about 8 hours. Had a scare 2 weeks ago after my doctor tried both anti biotic and allergy eyes drops to cure the redness…I got an inflamed cornea which caused cloudy vision in that eye.
All, curious on how you other long haulers are doing, any updates?? I’m late to the party here and got covid (likely delta) in late Dec. 2021. 11 weeks into recovery and I can’t really do much other than a 10-15 min slow walk or an easy roll around the block on the mt bike a couple times a week. If I overdo it symptoms return in full force. Throughout this long covid I’ve had chest burning, anxiety, SOB, fatigue, brain fog you name it. I seemed to have turned a corner last week and seeing progress but really slow. Needless to say this has been a mental and physical battle and has tested me to the core. I’m 49 and have been on the bike racing and training for about 20 years so I feel the rug has been pulled out from under me but I’m hopeful and expecting a full recovery but having to be patient.
@2fst4u , that’s brutal. Keep your chin up. I know “it could have been worse” is poor encouragement, it is still very true. Don’t add to your list of problems by coming back too hard too soon.
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I was 58 when I caught it July 2021. I’m unvaccinated. Consider myself very fit for age. My wife (56), also caught it and is also unvaccinated. She doesn’t exercise and is probably unfit.
Came on suddenly on the Monday whilst on a 2 hour hike with the dogs. I started to feel unwell with a banging headache.
Had a very poor sleep that night due to the bad headaches. Headache disappeared Tuesday morning. Totally lost all sense of taste and smell which took around 4 weeks to return. Tuesday onwards for about 3 days I had flu symptoms which then started to improve.
We had moved house the month before so training was taking a backseat but looking at calendar I started resuming cycling after 9 days (resumed daily 2-3 hr hikes after 3 days).
At the time it was the Delta variant going around.
I next ramped beginning of August on AT after 4 months of outside unstructured training. Ftp 283 which was in the ball park and currently 327 due to the brilliance of AT!!
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Appreciate the encouragement, will do.
I hope you getting healed up, curious of how you are coming along?
So you’re about 2 1/2 months in? Still hope for you. Now I’m about two years in, slowly improving. Am able to do limited amounts of light-to-moderate exercise without too much consequence as long as I rest and recuperate if I feel the fatigue beginning to mount. Best advice I can give you is to go after sources of inflammation in your diet, and begin working on leaky gut and healing your gut. If you don’t have MCAS symptoms, go straight after fermented foods that have probiotic qualities like kombucha, kimchi, kefir, etc. on a daily basis. That was a game changer for me with the burning lungs. Fasting / autophagy is helpful for some. Rest and pacing is important until you kick the fatigue, otherwise you can dig yourself a deep hole. Sorry you find yourself in the world of long-haul covid, but at least there are many ahead of you in recovery and much more information available in support groups that wasn’t available back in the earlier days.
Man, hang in there and keep positive, I really think that you’ll get back to 100%. I too am sorry you’ve been dealing with it this long. This ordeal made me realize my mental game sucks… I’ve been reading “change your brain change your life” book by Daniel Amen its helping me to identify and change negative thinking patterns and deal with anxiety related to covid symptoms.
Still having a rough go of it at times. Thanks for sharing your experience and suggestions, much appreciated and Godspeed in regard to your recovery.
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Everyone is different but I have had costochronditis since, my vaccine and now after covid. It’s an inflammation of the joint between the sternum and ribs. It gives you a tight chest feeling and chest pain and feels worse on the left. So does feel like heart issues. One thing that helps to figure if it’s this is the pain can be made worse by pressing on the area.
Not saying this is your issue but something else to take note of. So it does get worse with higher excertion as you will move your chest more to get more oxygen in.