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Long Covid joint pains
Does anyone have joint pain? I’ve had joint pain since having Covid 11/2020. It started in my hips, big toes, and thumbs. It was random and would come and go. Today, I am bothered with it constantly. My hands with the thumbs being the worst and the rest of the fingers seem to come and go. The ball of my feet are pretty constant. My hips are very painful where I need to move slower when changing positions like sit to stand. A few of my labs are abnormal but nothing my providers are alarmed with, likely indicate inflammation. Honestly, this whole long covid has progressively gotten worse for me (fatigue & brain fog are still terrible). I have stayed off Dr. Google or searching for long covid issues because I didn’t want to talk myself into any symptoms. Unfortunately, I have so many of them. I do feel alone. I almost feel like an outcast because I “look” ok and yet this is debilitating. (I have not worked since 5/2021 and have been thankfully supported by my husband). I sort of stopped venting or talking about myself because most people can’t relate and they are fatigued of hearing about it. I am tired of me not feeling well too.Will this ever end? (Sorry, my thoughts have strayed.)
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I’m here with you! Most people don’t understand unless they are experiencing it themselves. I do understand
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1 ReactionI’m here with you! Most people don’t understand unless they are experiencing it themselves. I do understand . I had fibromyalgia and Lupus. I had my last vaccine and everything went wrong. It’s a struggle
Yes! Same symptoms, pain in: hips, lower back (L4), one big toe, one thumb. I was diagnosed & treated with low dose steroids for PMR. Now have arthritis, level 3 (of 4) in left hip. Knee pain also. Now on a nerve blocker. Getting acupuncture, going to chiropractor, have done PT and am continuing with all three!
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1 ReactionFor the past year plus I’ve been having joint and muscle pains throughout my body. I had Covid and a Paxlovid rebound in late 2024. It’s been very painful in places, but always where I’d had injuries or surgeries in the past. When I finally had a consult with a large Covid clinic, they explained these pains from the neuro-inflammation in my PACS ME/CFS diagnosis. I’m now on low dose naltrexone (LDN). I’m only a month into LDN with doctors slowly increasing dosage, but I’ve noticed much of these pains reducing. The Covid clinic explained all of my pains are long covid symptoms they’ve seen in others and their research. My bigger issues are daily chronic migraines and occipital nerve pain with associated vision, brain fog and debilitating dizziness. It will be months before I know if LDN addresses that, but I do know that treating the symptoms with standard migraine and occipital neuralgia medications only helped temporarily, then lost efficacy.