Originally Posted by
paulo
Hi Mike
yes it's rare but it does happen and both myself and my fell running pathologist friend have seen it (he has seen several cases over the years) - so why chance it? Then there's the potential link with DCM and CFS..... I'm taking the ABx prescription as a likely indicator of severity and/or duration of infection rather than likely causative agent - which IME is often the way it happens (not a side swipe at GPs - think you may be one? - maybe more a reflection of what comes to us with sequae etc). We do of course also see myopericarditis cases who have had a bacterial resp infection. Not trying to cause general panic, just giving my own approach based on some specialist knowledge and experiences - YMMV as they say - but I do shudder a bit to see the widespread "you'll be reet" attitude to training whilst virally ill
Cheers P