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Has anyone else had their chronic pain disappear while on Paxlovid?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 24 12:50pm | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
Hello, I hope you are healing quickly! I have had chronic body wide pain for about 28 years, and was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2000. I have been treated for it by a few MD doctors, ever since. Although Lyrica, Oxycodone, muscle relaxers and Cymbalta do help my pain levels, and I could not survive this disease without these meds, I am never ever pain free. BUT. When I contracted Covid in December 2020, my pain completely disappeared. I got so sick with Covid symptoms. But my pain was gone, I did not feel ANY pain. After about 10 days, as my Covid symptoms disappeared, my "regular" pain gradually came back. There was no Paxlovid and I was taking only certain vitamins that my MD recommended. That was all the treatment I was offered at that time. My doctor later told me that maybe my brain was consumed with covid, and so the pain signals were blocked.
Sorry this is poorly written. i am filled with Fibro fog today.
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I will agree with your doctor that your brain solely focused on covid and that took center stage. Sorry you got hit with covid, I did too during Christmas and it stunk! I also have a centralized pain syndrome but did not take Paxlovid and felt a shift from primary pain awareness to covid sickness awareness.
Living with chronic pain, I've had examples of distraction in life that can bring my brain away from my symptoms, which I call a brain vacation, and allow me to focus on something else that brings joy, gratitude, humor perhaps. Not saying pains ever completely gone but it takes the back seat. Just making the case for how savvy our brains truly are -our central command centers. Given the fact that pain stems from the brain and chronic pain is when there are permanent upregulated changes in our central nervous system sending false fight or flight signals via spinal cord to the brain. The brain is powerful.
Another possibility to think about is the medications that you currently take... how long have you been on them? Sometimes medications such as opioids lose efficacy over time.. Could it be possible that adding a new medication like Paxlovid might have helped diminish pain signals as it was new to your system? I''m no doctor or scientist but it makes me wonder... hmm?
Again, so sorry you ended up with covid, but it sounded like a very interesting experiment for you to experience. You traded one thing for another. 🙃
I'm curious, do you agree with your doctor's analysis or do you have a different opinion or thought?
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Thank you. Someone should do a study about this, and any other illnesses that stop chronic pain temporarily too. I appreciate the reality check. It's likely the same thing here with me and best that I know it's not the Paxlovid.