Quoting Reddit user on giving up work

Reddit user on giving up work

One clue was spending about half of my summer holidays asleep and the other half resting and still not feeling recovered from a busy time at work after two weeks of doing that.

The other clue was the increasing symptoms that seemed to pop up out of nowhere: near constant headaches, palpitations, lightheadedness, brain fog, insomnia, lack of appetite, a nagging nervous/anxious energy and having migraines (i.e. PEM crashes) nearly every weekend. I also fell asleep anytime I wasn’t working or actively doing something else and even had to take lunchtime naps to get through my days.

I didn’t put it all together with my prior covid infections for ages, because initially my threshold for PEM was quite high (I only crashed after really intense workouts) and I assumed my new migraines were caused by working too much after starting a new job.

I figured, maybe I was burned out and quit my job to look for something with a better work life balance, but my symptoms still kept getting worse until I was referred to a post covid clinic and learned about pacing.

Knowing what I know now, I’d recommend to stop working before it gets to that point.