Recovering from pneumonia and when to start training again

Training
1

Hello TR friends,

I am writing to ask for help and also to share my frustration.

I should be dismissed tomorrow from hospital.

I was admitted 2 days ago with pneumonia as influenza complication.

Oxygen levels were never below 95 so I guess it was not very bad.

Nevertheless it is a serious condition which I expect to take some time for full recovery, especially for 54 years old like me.

And this is really frustrating as I was coming from great training results recently.

As a training addict I am already think about how long it will take to get back to some kind of training, even just zone 2.

I would appreciate if anyone has similar experience to share.

If recovery of lungs would take longer, I was thinking also about taking the opportunity to spend time on strength training.

any help or suggestion is really appreciated.

2

Ask your doctor.

3 Likes
3

That is obvious. I was not planning not to ask.

I was just asking for people who might have had similar experience so I know what to expect.

1 Like
4

What @KevinKlaes says

If your serious about training, then the only thing you should be thinking about is recovery, and you should treat it like it’s your job

”neumonia recovery varies, but most people feel better in 1-2 weeks, with fever gone in days, while full energy and cough resolution can take weeks to months, often around 3 months for significant improvement and up to 6 months to feel completely normal,”

So I would be looking for TV series to bing watch, at least for 2 weeks, and re-evaluate, doing ANYTHING is only going to set you back, I’d be working towards trying to recover in 3 months, not keeping fitness, keeping fitness is going to make it 9 months to recover

(56 and had serious covid two years back, tried to get back on the bike …. did me no favours)

1 Like
5

You can get on and see where your heart rate lands at recovery pace; I was able to tell when I was healing by when my heart rate finally dropped to normal levels. The point was to gauge, not actually train though. It’s been proven that training will only slow your recovery.

2 Likes
6

Welp, early sixties, I had the flu, recovered, and was riding as normal. I had a followup at the doc and she didn’t like what she heard listing to my chest. Got a chest x-ray and I had pneumonia. She put me on an antibiotic, I kept riding as normal, and didn’t notice any adverse effects. A month or so later a follow up x-ray was clear. Obviously that wasn’t a very serious case.

1 Like