Too late.

I'm not sure most people knew what a turbocharger was to begin with.

we put a turbo in your turbo

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

- https://www.specialized.com/il/en/turbo-levo-4-pro/p/4218703...

- https://turbo.hotwired.dev (Drifts right back to turbo charger, but using one as the logo)

Or it can be used to amplify as in "Turbo Clippy":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865194

In these conditions it’s more likely that mitochondrial dysfunction is part of the chain of events leading to the fatigue, not necessarily the root cause of the condition.

Also I have to tread very lightly on this topic to avoid giving the wrong idea: Be a little cautious when taking statements about Long COVID and ME/CFS from individuals, as it’s not uncommon for people to present hypotheses as more concrete than the research suggests. With all due respect to Dianna Cowern, some of her past updates on the topic have blurred the lines between conjecture and fact and she’s collaborated with at least one Long COVID / ME/CFS organization that is known for having members that are sometimes less than scientific about their personal theories. It’s a very difficult and complex topic and it can be hard for patients to stay on top of all the different directions the research is looking.

I went through a bout of cronic fatigue after a nose surgery that lasted ~4 months and it was utter hell. It really feels like the life has been drained from your body and on top of that, random things go wrong with your body seemingly every day. One day you’ll have strange stomach bloating and feel nauseous, another day you’ll barely be able to stand without fainting, another day you’ll feel heart palpitations, etc.

What made it so much harder to deal with was it’s an invisible illness. Nobody knows about it, and it generally doesn’t show up on tests. The only test that showed anything significant was a tilt-table test where I fainted in the middle of it.

Otherwise I went to the hospital multiple times because I thought I was having a heart attack, I’ve had doctors get angry at me for “wasting their time”, thinking I’m faking it, and friends/family not understanding.

Not to mention having to pretend everything was fine at work. There were times I had to lie down on the bathroom floor to keep myself from fainting or due to heart palpitations. Luckily we had clean, private bathrooms.

As I said, I slowly got better over the course of months, and not everyone is that lucky unfortunately. Honestly if I didn’t get better I probably wouldn’t be here to write this…

Not to trauma dump but a lot of people don’t know about these illnesses or think they’re fake so I wanted to relay my experience.