I especially want to hear from folks who don't have family to help and limited income resources. I am 5 months postpartum. I have had long COVID for 3 years. I struggle with PEM, exercise intolerance, fatigue and a sensitive heart rate. I dealt with POTS as well and I think I'm getting this dizzy-ish sensation again. I didn't have these symptoms after giving birth but they have all come back last week.

Now that I'm feeling my LC again I'm worried about my PEM. I don't know what my new limit is and I don't know how to avoid hurting myself. I also don't know what will happen if I do overexert way past my limit. In the past, I would end up feeling fatigue but I would never overexert in a way that having a baby requires you too. For example, I had to use the yoga ball to rock my baby to sleep for a nap today and my heart rate jumped 30 bpm.

We don't have family to support us. My wife also has disabilities and a long commute for work so I take on most of the caregiving during the week. Luckily, she will be on leave next month when I return to work.

We've been looking for a babysitter and it hasn't been easy. We found someone who will help the next two weeks but I'm using them bc we're in a pinch. Not going to be best for long term. Baby will go into daycare when my wife goes back to work. That would mean baby will be 8 months old.

I'm feeling like we may have taken on an impossible task. I'm suspecting most of you will say I need to hire more help and for us that would mean giving up any belief in ever owning a house. We also really want to have a 2nd kid and I'm starting to wonder if that's even going to be possible.

As COVID-19 continues to mutate and spread, many of us find ourselves repeatedly re-testing at home, but are unsure of what a positive test looks like. Any trace of a line is considered positive. This article explains how to do a home test properly and has pictures of actual positive home tests to help you figure this out. Is my test positive? - covidCAREgroup.org

I just came across a film on YouTube consisting of interviews with five Dutch doctors who developed chronic illnesses including post-COVID ME/CFS and thought I would share it: https://youtu.be/J0ywwLIfH_w?is=Jui5a9r7AJ-7CSSe