Pumping Iron... Or Failing to.
I've been feeling really rubbish lately. Headaches, fatigue, not sleeping well... all symptoms that could be attributed to many different things: a bug (it's that time of year), menopause, fatigue from training. I've been waking in the night, unable to get back to sleep. My HRV has been low, and my resting heart rate high. I've felt tired during the day, and felt like I've been underperforming in training. My heart rate has seemed higher than normal, and I've felt as though my lungs (and the rest of me) just haven't been quite right. Then last week, I sort of fell off a cliff. Felt as though I couldn't function. Felt the need to sleep during the day. I took time off work, assuming I had the beginnings of the flu. We've been to plenty of patients with flu and various other respiratory bugs recently, so it wouldn't be surprising. But flu symptoms never materialised. What the heck is going on? I decided to go to the doc a...