Did PAXLOVID also relieve your arthritis and autoimmune symptoms?

jbsheen,
OMG ! You have made my day, my week, my year!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and to follow up!!!! I can't use enough exclamation points. You have given me HOPE !
It was brilliant of you to print out these posts. The more evidence the better. So many scientists reject anecdotal evidence out of hand. There is power in numbers.

My daughter's name is Jane 🙂

Please keep us posted, even if it is bad news.
THANK YOU!!!

I'm so glad I posted. I live in the Virgin Islands. I find that sometimes because the medical community is relatively small, we tend to have closer relations b/w Drs and patients. Many of us have both personal and professional relationships.

I was named after my mother.

I'm Jane - I posted maybe a year ago or more indicating that Paxlovid had completely eliminated my pain from erosive arthritis. I continue to be essentially pain free. I shared that info with my rheumatologist and other Drs. All of them took me seriously and agreed with the autoimmune idea. I also made contact with a friend who is also a scientist for Pfizer. She paid attention to me and asked lots of question. She also contacted me later and had me write a complete description of my diagnosis and my experience with paxlovid. I did so and also sent her a printout of all comments on this thread. That contact was within the last couple of months. I have heard nothing further, but will try to follow up.

Paxlovid also gave me back my taste but I lost it again when off the meds. I truly believe the anti viral will be found to improve symptoms

I'm Jane - I posted maybe a year ago or more indicating that Paxlovid had completely eliminated my pain from erosive arthritis. I continue to be essentially pain free. I shared that info with my rheumatologist and other Drs. All of them took me seriously and agreed with the autoimmune idea. I also made contact with a friend who is also a scientist for Pfizer. She paid attention to me and asked lots of question. She also contacted me later and had me write a complete description of my diagnosis and my experience with paxlovid. I did so and also sent her a printout of all comments on this thread. That contact was within the last couple of months. I have heard nothing further, but will try to follow up.

Yes I have an undiagnosed autoimmune illness with Fatigue and joint pain that started after I had a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. Everyone said it was a result of the cancer treatments and surgeries. I had Covid and took the Paxlovid and for the first time in 18 months I felt like my old self. My fatigue and joint pain were greatly diminished. I told all my Doctors..primary care Dr, Rheumatologist, my oncologist and my plastic surgeon. They were not able to draw any conclusions. I contracted Covid again about a month ago and had the same results while taking the Paxlovid. I have been trying to research why it mitigated my joint pain and fatigue. . I’m not sure of the mechanism in my situation, however, it makes me wonder if this antiviral medication which is designed to decrease the viral replication/load, therefore also would then decrease inflammation due to said lesser viral load and provocation, as C-19 causes immune response inflammation.

Hi Nance - I am trying to reconstruct how I sent the info to my friend. I may have just sent a link to the entire discussion. To do that you click on the 3 dots that appear at the end of every post. If you scroll up a bit ( be patient) you will come to a spot where you can arrange the entire discussion from oldest to newest. You could do that and just print the entire discussion (have plenty of paper available.) I experimented and that will work, but every page has some extra stuff like emails address etrc and that. come out vertical. The whole discussion will take 8 pages to print. Why don't you try both saving the link and printing and see what works best for you.

Good luck! Get back to me if you have any problems.
J
Jane