Post Covid/Long Covid: Anyone else experienced bladder issues?

I totally agree with you. Long covid inflammation. I eat Activia AM and PM for anti-inflammatory prebiotic. Has helped I feel. Good luck.

For those with bladder pain, see your gynecologist. Long covid may be inflaming the lining of the bladder and can cause severe pain. There is treatment, such as an estrogen cream. And others.

I totally agree with you about the inflammation from COVID. I turned 65 in January of 2021, got COVID with very mild symptoms in February 2021 and both Moderna shots in March and April 2021. The reactions to the shots were worse than having the virus. From then on, everything went haywire. Every place I ever had an injury to a joint started acting up. Yes, and bladder issues of having to go very often. There is the usual fatigue, hair thinning, and brain fog. I still have some problems with taste and smell. Physical therapy has helped with regaining some of my pre COVID strength and endurance. It has also helped with my joints. I knew that just because I turned 65 everything wasn't supposed to go haywire all at once. I have 33 acres to take care of by myself. I certainly don't have time for this evil that was unleashed on us. I'm not going to let it beat me. I pray for everyone who is having to go through all this.

I've had bladder issues for a long time, but got Covid the last week of Sept. More bladder issues now. I'm taking Oxybutynin and a UT support from my naturopath, which is helping.

Thank you for sharing this info. I have so many crazy symptoms after Covid. I hope they will come up with something that helps for all of us eventually. I will look into the anti inflammatory diet.

You sound like you might be a candidate for low dose naltrexone. It's used for addiction but is showing great promise for autoimmune and long covid. Just a thought.

I have had sudden onset of bladder pain, tea color urine and urgency since experiencing some other out of expected COVID symptoms. For me…inflammation of cardio vascular system, COVID toes and kidney/bladder damage has been my experience.

I saw this comment. Look up Pepcid(famotidine)for covid an long covid. I read it does help some with symptoms an it's unknown why except it is apparently antiviral against covid spike. My 87 yr old Mother was already on Pepcid 1x a day an got Covid Dec 15th fr my Sister, 58, who got it 5 days earlier. I had read abt Pepcid. 80mg a day is what I told my Mom to start taking. 2 at lunch an 2 at bed on day before she was tested so symptoms had barely started. She did get sick but it was like upper respiratory illness. Mild/Medium. Got zpak(has Pulmonary Fibrosis so didn't want lung infection), Albuterol for nebulizer(dud use that day 10 to get final sm gunk out of chest. Only abt 7/8 times). Dr did give DUMB Paxlovid day 5(why I don't know cause she was getting better by then not worse!) She is diabetic on insulin. Took 2 doses an had severe g.i. issues. Couldn't hardly get out of bed to even eat or check sugar. Not good. Hypoglycemia. So I told her to stop it. She lives with my sister in another nearby state(N.M.)So continued 80 mg Pepcid fr day 1 till day 6 or 7. By then she was much better an just had gunk in upper respiratory or throat an very upper lungs. No big concern. Also did steam in bathroom couple times a day cause she is alone during day while sister at work. But Sister got waaay sicker than my old Mother. Sister did take Paxlovid but started it 4 days before my Mom tested. So Mom was 5 days behind Sister. Way sicker. Then day 14 or 15..Sister rebounded big time. Everything all over again. REAL sick. Had to go back to Dr an get rocephen shot an antibiotic. So was sick like 3-4 wks. Mom sick abt 11 days an symptoms nit as bad. So I believe pepcid helps. Doesn't hurt to do a quick research on it an try. Also, my Mom gets UTI frequently. Like 2-3 a yr. Well abt 8 days ago started getting pain in bladder area when urinating an had uti. Given Doxycycline(allergic to alot of antibiotics unfortunately)100mg 2x day 7 days an just finished. Still has pain in bladder area. Not worse. A tad better but that usually isn't a symptom of hers when she gets one. She is incontinent abt 50%. Changes pads 4x a day. Urinating every 2 hrs*(don't hold urine longer than that. Bacteria grows)takes D-mannose an cranberry supp. I'm in med field so I try to help her an also research alot. Look into Pepcid for long covid. An We all DID NOT get vax. I believe now that is a poss other factor on recovery an frequency of getting covid again. I believe it causes immune system to malfunction. Just my opinion in my research. Goodluck.

I have a different bladder problem. I had a preexisting urethral stricture (I think caused by a cold like virus many years ago, though no one knows for certain) and had been dilated a few times but it wasn't causing me any significant problems and I'd had a check up from the urologist shortly before I had COVID in July. A week into COVID, as I started doing better, I had acute urinary retention and had to have a catheter inserted in ther ER. I had a catheter for 7 weeks, then was doing OK without it. Similar experience when I got the bivalent booster in November. I never had a problem with the vaccines/boosters before I had COVID, perhaps the disease "taught" my immune system to do something very unhelpful in terms of bladder/urethra inflammation. I'm considering low dose naltrexone. I don't have much pain, so if it is IC it is a different variation of it. I haven't heard of anyone having this kind of an experience but would be interested to hear if anyone has.

I've been dilated more extensively now and it has been a couple of months since the booster. Doing fine right now but have a suprapubic catheter for a little while to be sure everything continues to work OK. It has been a long process and it is disconcerting not knowing what to expect (whether other viruses could cause this to flare up again, whether other things could, etc.).

YES. 1 month out and experiencing exactly that- did not realize it's so common!!