Any connection between long COVID and tendinitis?

@I'm right there with you. My immune system went haywire after COVID in 2021. Things that never bothered me now cause me to itch all over - foods and beverages with a lot of histamine, over the counter vitamin supplements (even if they are hypo-allergenic), gluten now causes breathing difficulties. I do think it's the immune system.

@lkirnbauer Same for me...all pain increases with gluten, dairy, sugar, corn products and cheese with mold (like blue cheese). Never had food allergies like this until COVID. And red wine gives me bright red cheeks now! I am on 24 hour allergy pills to stop H1 -alone it does not stop the complete over production of mast cells but I prefer not to take a H2 blocker like Pepcid which helps but minimizes the acid in my stomach needs to digest food.

I'm also struggling with tendon pain and the overall life altering effects of LC. The tendon pain in my ankles has been going on since my last Covid infection over 6 months ago (I've had it 3 times with the 1st and 3rd infections being the worst). I've had complex, chronic pain with paresthesias, muscle pain, joint pain, and this tendonitis pain. My PCP has a laundry list of blood tests, none abnormal, won't refer me to a specialist because there is no "identifiable cause" for my symptoms. Aside from the pain this disease ravaged my body and brain and the frustration of it all is sometimes worse than the physical symptoms. I wish you the best with your specialty appointments. I wish for us all that LC research will improve and someday provide insight and answers for what is affecting us, crippling us and upending what had been otherwise normal, healthy lives.

I’ve had more tendinitis since having Covid in 2020 and 2021. I feel like I’m constantly stretching to relieve it. Yoga is helpful too. I pretty much attributed it to getting older, but it did escalate after being infected with Covid.
I wish you all the best!

@celia16
Sports Medicine doc

For me the connection between Long COVID and worsened tendinitis is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which I first heard of in Dr Teitelbaum's book _From Fatigued to Fantastic_ but have had all my life. LDN, photobiomodulation, and a slew of nutritional supplements have all helped me a great deal, and I now have less connective-tissue pain than I did before COVID.

(I'm posting this information to alert others to the overlap between pre-existing hypermobility/connective-tissue issues and Long COVID. It doesn't sound as if EDS is what's going on for the person who posted this question since that person's tendinitis is confined to a specific location and is due to a structural abnormality.)

Before Covid in 2020 (I was 73) I was hiking 5-10 miles in the mountains of southern Arizona. During Covid I could not digest food although my lungs were unaffected. I lost 25 pounds (200 to 175) in 10 days and lost 4 teeth due to calcium loss. During the next 11 months I worked up from 1 mile to 3 miles on flat ground. One day I tried 4 miles with about a gain of 200 feet in elevation. I felt unbearable pain in my left groin for the last mile and could not walk for several weeks afterward. I then spent 3 months in therapy at the VA and worked back up to 1 mile. Since then I have slowly increased my hikes and yesterday walked 9 miles with slight elevation gain. My goal is to hike 10 miles next week on my 80th birthday. I still have tendon problems in my left groin and x-rays show I have osteoporosis in my hips and knees although that pain is slight. Sometimes I will be sitting in a chair and feel unbearable pain in my left groin tendon (not pain in my hip) and have to wait until it subsides before I can stand up. This event is irregular, unpredictable and very annoying. I rarely but sometimes have the same symptoms in other joints. Anyone else have a similar hstory? Please poste here because when I tell my doctors, they just shrug their shoulders. fishwithak

@celia16 Try Acupuncture. I did when I lost taste and smell. Took a long time but it helped. Also will help with arthritis. Now have tinnitus probably from covid again. I’d say long covid.

@gnana6 , I’ve had acupuncture before for other things, so I know it can be quite beneficial. I would like to return, but it’s all out of pocket and can be expensive with a series of visits.

@fishwithak

Long COVID has definitely exacerbated my pre-existing tendinitis, though my trajectory and symptoms don't sound parallel to yours. My tendinitis is in my hands and wrists and is part of a whole-body weakness in connective tissue from undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I'm guessing that what we're both experiencing is post-viral inflammation expressing itself wherever we happen to be particularly vulnerable due to past injuries.