Monday, November 15, 2021

ENSNARED The inescapable reality of fatigue

Maybe you want your doctor following this to understand your stroke fatigue instead of telling you you need to get cardiovascularly fit.  My doctor told me I  needed to get more cardiovascularly fit to overcome the fatigue. Of course he never measured my fitness to prove how massively wrong he was. 

Three years after my stroke I had a physical where my resting heart rate was 54 at the age of 53. That means my cardiovascular fitness was that of an athlete, even after doing nothing on it for 3 years. Yet I was still completely fatigued everyday.  

Statistics on stroke fatigue:

At least half of all stroke survivors experience fatigue Or is it 70%?

Or is it 40%?

ENSNARED: The inescapable reality of fatigue

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