So one big piece of the puzzle was that my iron was too low for too long... I had been midly anemic in sep 2016... and went iron pills, but my ferritin as an endurance
athlete was not high enough (never got above 42 and ideally would have been at least 50)... so they put me back on iron pills and b pills... and a multivitamin... i am mostly
vegetarian female endurance
athlete... so this nutrition issue definitely contributed to my overtraining... I am feeling hugely much better after three months of resting... walking is getting easier at longer distances... I may start
doing steady state stuff for 15mn at a time... nutritionally my body was in the hole... and it may take longer still to recover... but at least now I feel normal most of the time... and all tests have been normal...