YES! I experienced the same relief from my osteoarthritis pain when I began my course of Paxlovid for a recent case of Covid.
It was wonderful! I hadn’t been pain free in years except for those few days on Paxlovid. I have osteoarthritis just about everywhere. It helped immensely with the Covid symptoms also, while I was taking it. They returned when I finished the 5 day treatment, but not as bad.
I had held off on taking the Medrol prescribed to me, as I don’t like the after effects of prednisone. I did start taking it when Covid symptoms were still bothering me. It caused A LOT of bone pain. My legs, all my joints, neck and shoulders, back, were very painful. Headache also.
Pain slowly improved days after I stopped taking Medrol.
I’ve looked online and can find nothing that explains why Paxlovid would help so much with arthritis pain.
How to get medical profession to research this? Or approve off label use? I read the response about government blocking off label use and reasons. Not good news for arthritis sufferers.
If it helps millions of people with relief of osteoarthritis pain, it should be available by prescription. Many people can’t take NSAIDs or Opioid medications. This would hopefully be a safe alternative for them.