Nick Knowles: The 59-year-old revealed details of his Covid ordeal on ITV’s Lorraine. He said: “I’m good now. I had it really bad at the start of lockdown, I got Covid pretty bad. And me being impatient tried to get straight back into exercise directly afterwards. There seems to be some correlation or suggestion now that actually going too hard, exercising too soon after Covid, can actually cause you problems.” Nick was told by doctors he had long Covid, which went on 10 months after the initial infection.
He said: “You’re just like no energy at all. Absolutely knackered the whole time.
“But I didn’t want to tell anybody because I might not get a booking for work. I kept it to myself.
“So I’m climbing up huge buildings, seven storey buildings, and having to stop every two ladders, ‘I’m just taking in the view’.
“But I managed to get through it actually, amazingly about seven or eight months ago started to feel better and I’ve started on the fitness again.”
The NHS says how long it takes to recover from Covid is different for everybody. While many people feel better in a few days or weeks and make a full recovery within 12 weeks, for some people, symptoms can last longer.
The health body lists common long Covid symptoms as:
- extreme tiredness (fatigue)
- shortness of breath
- chest pain or tightness
- problems with memory and concentration (“brain fog”)
- difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
- heart palpitations
- dizziness
- pins and needles
- joint pain
- depression and anxiety
- tinnitus, earaches
- feeling sick, diarrhoea, stomach aches, loss of appetite
- a high temperature, cough, headaches, sore throat, changes to sense of smell or taste
- rashes
If you’re worried about symptoms four weeks or more after having coronavirus, contact a GP.
The NHS states: “Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and the impact they’re having on your life.
“They may suggest some tests to find out more about your symptoms and rule out other things that could be causing them.
“These might include blood tests, checking your blood pressure and heart rate, and a chest X-ray.”
Another time Nick opened up about his health was in 2017, after suffering a healthy scare.
He told Good Morning Britain at the time he’d “taken up yoga, given up meat and even went a week without eating food at all.”
The lifestyle change came after he appeared on BBC show The Retreat, which followed Nick for four weeks as he adopted a plant-based diet.
Speaking to Express.co.uk about his health makeover he revealed: “A year and a half ago I was really, really, unwell.
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