Covid Legs and Toes
Hi Everyone,
Long hauler since November 2020, I am still experiencing pain and weakness in my legs along with my toes turning purple or red. Sometimes my toes will feel hot. My doctor said to stretch and this is not helping. Anyone have any tips or experiencing the same thing? I’m ready for this long Covid to be done I have other symptoms but figured I would start with this.
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Yes!!! It’s so hard to go to sleep because I’m so uncomfortable
Thank you, @rose5 for the hug. Back atcha.
I tried today, in a message to someone who retired from my industry, to explain this, and it's incomprehensible to those who have had no symptoms or never tested "+".
I had COVID a few months after it broke. Vaccines had not been developed yet. I had the symptoms but didn't get really sick. About a month later I started hurting all over. My legs got very weak and I stayed tired all of the time. All symptoms progressively worsened.
My legs hurt all the time and felt so heavy they felt like post. I could barely get around at times. I took all sorts of circulation supplements, vitamins, antibiotics.
My head hurts all the time. I got short of breath. I had to sleep sitting up to breath well. I used my parents old oxygen machine and sleep apnea also
Since then my blood pressure now runs real high at times, other times very low as does my oxygen levels
My feet look black at times, get really red. Now I'm having sugar issues like diabetes. My sugar runs over 200 at times. I can't eat salt at all my legs swell even worse
I hurt in my arms I think I'm losing usage of my right arm. It hurts bad.
I have intense headaches. I hurt in my chest a lot now. I hurt all up and down my body, intense pain in my neck and head.
My vision is getting blurry at times and really bad in my right eye.
I get really weak and nearly pass out and if I do anything much, I get tired I just have to sit down or drop on the bed and fall asleep for hours. I mostly sleep now
I can't get approved for disability or anything I have no healthcare. No way to go to the doctors. My family has helped me all they could but I can't get any help from disability in my state. They won't even send me to a doctor. .
I don't think I have a lot of time left anyway but I wonder if most of these things are caused from covid
Every where I go I find people with some or all of the same symptoms I'm having.
Good luck getting help people. I don't think there's much of anyone in the ERs or anywhere else that knows what they're dealing with. COVID caused all of minem
Review: COVID March 2020. Raynauds diagnosis March 2021. Examined at my foot doctor "You have COVID toes" Diagnosis at hospital vascular lab. Toes and fingers become cold when the temperature is below 50 F. Then will turn purple if I don't get them warmed. Never had ANY of these issues before COVID. Last winter (2023), two dermatology appts, PCP and urgent care. Fingers on right hand swollen, in pain, red and sometimes split and bleeding. "You have contact dermatitis". "You have hand eczema" PICK ONE LOL. Nothing worked. Better by April, cured, then in Dec 2024 it was back. It was the Raynauds. I'm 70 now. What works: Don't go outside if the temp is below 30 F. ALWAYS wear winter rated winter gloves and boots. I bought new boots. Danner 800 g Thinsulate. FANTASTIC. I can't use heat inserts. Too hot, they damage my feet. New gloves Saranac Glove mittens.It's a glove in a mitten FANTASTIC. Best results if you dont let your hands and feet get cold in the first place. Warming them up dosen't repair the damage. It's not that simple. House temp in winter had to be increased 2 degrees.
I have restless leg syndrome since I had Covid in December of 2022. I bought a product called Theraworx Relief for Muscle Cramps and it literally works! I also get horrific cramps in my legs if I get to warm under the covers. What also helps is taking a Tums chewable tablet or two. The calcium in the Tums is what helps. I have Hashimoto’s so I don’t eat gluten, dairy or soy products. That has also helped. Sorry you are suffering and hope this helps in a small way.