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Table 3 Example of functional ability and the emerged illness trajectory

From: From good health to illness with post-infectious fatigue syndrome: a qualitative study of adults’ experiences of the illness trajectory

Category

Illness trajectory

Sub-categories

Trajectory phases

 

Prodromal

Downward

Turning

Upward

Chronic

Category

Functional ability

“Only fourteen days after I got Giardia… I was knocked out”

“If I walked a short distance, I needed several stops”

“I gradually got worse until… bedbound”

“I have gradually started to become better”

“Now it is fifty-fifty for me, working 50%… 50% welfare benefits”