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Anyone experiencing muscle atrophy/muscle wasting due to Long COVID?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Dec 29, 2024 | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
@catfishgrazis44 the muscle atrophy is progressing, and I am not able to build muscle at all with weight training. Just when I think I can't lose more muscle, I do. I've tried everything, including physical therapy. I also have brain fog and have developed sleep apnea and asthma after the covid infection 2.5 years ago. I don't know how this happened, but I have mitochondrial dysfunction from the virus, it somehow has altered my body at a cellular level. It is devastating, I am so depressed.
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Just a tidbit here - my 4-year long journey would take up too much space. However, I thought to mention that I am a female, 82 years old and am just now noticing what I consider muscle-wasting (maybe it also has to do with my age...) but, anyway...I take *a lot* of supplements: Astragalus for muscle strength, L-Carnisine and other amino acids for mitochondrial support (plus PQQ) And, after reading this thread, I am considering some creatine.
I tried it way back in the beginning but didn't notice anything positive (nor negative). But now...4 years later, it might help me. My best to you.
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Wow, I never gave it a thought there was any correlation between long Covid-19 and developing COPD, sleep apnea, asthma and muscle atrophy progression. None of my care givers even suggested any of it was possible. (I guess they still do not know a lot about long covid's effects)
One additional item, I contracted a severe case of covid on 8 December 2020 and since then, I have been slowly developing all of the above issues. I might add that when I contracted double lung pneumonia covid, I had quit smoking 29 years earlier and had no issues with breathing until I went into a pulmonologist and was diagnosed with COPD.