On top of that, he described feeling worn out after exercising. He said he'd lost his "kick" – his ability to rapidly accelerate.
About three weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, he started running again, but the results were discouraging.ĭuring his first run after contracting the virus, it took the athlete 35 minutes to cover 6.4 kilometres – a distance that would have taken 28 minutes prior to the infection. Doctors ran blood and ECG diagnostics to rule out a heart attack or heart disease and released him. His acute symptoms faded after about six days, but that's when his struggle with post-infection symptoms began.įirst, he suffered from three episodes of left-sided chest pain, the second of which was serious enough to land him in an emergency room. At the time, he was not vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. The unnamed "elite distance runner" tested positive for COVID-19 in February 2021, after experiencing some of the most common symptoms of an infection: dry persistent cough, shortness of breath, fever, fatigue and sore throat. "Distinguishing between patients suffering from significant cardiopulmonary pathology, those suffering from a typical post-viral fatigue syndrome or dysfunctional breathing can be challenging." These symptoms, commonly experienced post-COVID-19, are also hallmark symptoms of myocarditis," the study reads. "Following an apparently mild initial COVID-19 presentation, patients frequently suffer prolonged symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness and chest pain.
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Not only does the case offer insight into how post-COVID-19 symptoms affect athletes, but the researchers wrote that it improved their understanding of how to distinguish serious post-COVID-19 side effects like myocarditis – a potentially serious heart condition associated with COVID-19 infections – from other, less deadly post-COVID conditions. In the paper, researchers from the Academic Department of Military Rehabilitation, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Brompton Hospital present a case study involving an elite athlete in his late 30s whose athletic performance suffered for months after a mild case of COVID-19.
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