The patient, a nurse, went from being “bedridden for more than half of each day” to going back to work.
Treatments
- instructions on eating habits and supplements;
- cognitive and behavioral modifications for coping with physical, emotional, and cognitive fatigue;
- instructions on conditioning exercises to improve deconditioning due to fatigue and dyspnea
- pharmacotherapy with amitriptyline and hochuekkito , a Japanese herbal (Kampo ) medicine
Symptoms
- severe fatigue
- post-exertional malaise
- dyspnea
- pain
- cognitive dysfunction
- tachycardia
- exacerbation of fatigue on physical exertion, which persisted for more than 6 months after her recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia.
- She was bedridden for more than half of each day