Did PAXLOVID also relieve your arthritis and autoimmune symptoms?

Yes, I was on Paxlovid for Covid and I noticed I was having 0 pain. I have severe scoliosis and arthritis, so I am used to daily pain. As far as I know, I haven't been diagnosed with any autoimmune diseases. By 2-3 day of Paxlovid, I realized I was not having any pain and I started moving around testing things that normally caused pain for me. A couple of days after completed Paxlovid, my normal pain returned. I went online to see if anyone else had experienced this which is where I saw this post. Hopefully, some day they can figure out why and how to utilize it.

I just reported my results to them and plan to repost this info on social media to help spread the word. Fingers crossed for all of us!

Hi jjmboy, (I'm in bad body mode--this might sound rude. sorry in advance)
social media is a great idea!
May I suggest? Please post very specifically that this is about people who already had a diagnosed autoimmune disease/arthritis BEFORE covid and paxlovid AND they got relief from the paxlovid.

People who GOT body aches/autoimmune/arthritis AFTER covid and/paxlovid are a different category.

I don't know how rude it would be to say that if you don't fit into our category, please don't post here. Don't post about any other topic, either. Acknowledge that there are a lot of strong feelings related to the situation (Long Covid, anti-vaxers, pharmaceutical-haters, etc) but not in this post, This is NOT about Long Covid--they are already researching Long Covid, so we need to keep the focus here.

Can you put some kind of link here in Mayo to your social media?

I don't use any social media...too many teachers have gotten burnt, long story.

Please excuse my abruptness today (and to other folks the last few days for not responding)-- ive had a series of bad body days, very tired

Thank you!

No worries dear…you were not rude at all. My social media post does say what you mentioned. I was simply excited and in a hurry on my lunch hour when I posted on here. I do in fact fit into your category. I was diagnosed with an unspecified or mixed (can never remember the difference) autoimmune disease 26 years ago. I have had mild Covid 3 times, and 4 months ago, I took Paxlovid for the first time and noticed complete relief from all of my symptoms which lasted 5-6 days before they all came back. I immediately got online to see if anyone else had the same experience, and I found you guys. I have checked on here frequently and saw the post today about calling Pfizer, so I did! I will see if I can figure out the social media thing for you this evening. Have a good day!

My chronic pain in my joints went away after taking paxlovid. What causes this wonderful side effect

My Paxlovid relief from arthritis lasted approximately 4 months. I was basically pain free from 20 years of pain in my right hip. It's back now at the same level as before the Paxlovid, but the 4 months of relief was wonderful.
I also called and reported this to Pfizer, answered some questions but that was it. No follow up since the call.
My pain is worse when waking up in the morning. My leg almost collapses from the pain. After 20 mins or so the pain dissipates and I am good to go. I found that a heating pad during the night helps tremendously.

I’m on my last day of Paxlovid, following a covid diagnosis, and was rather amazed to wake up this morning with unswollen hand joints and eyes that weren’t puffy at all.

I have experienced sore hands and a sore arthritic big toe during covid (I haven’t been very sick at all), but it was definitely unusual not to have have any swollen joints this morning.

I’m on day 5 of Paxlovid after Covid & the inflammatory wrist issues seemed to have disappeared!! I’ve been taking steroids daily for years to keep the inflammation down. It’s like I don’t even need the steroids since starting Paxlovid. Is it possible that a systemic virus has been behind all of my tendon problems? Will this resume after stopping Paxlovid? I only have one more dose. This is an absolute miracle as nothing has helped me more than the last few days on the Paxlovid. I will follow up to inform if symptoms return as the medication leaves my system 🙏🏻 I’ve been trying to figure out what has been causing this for years now. A couple of years ago, they put me on methotrexate and it was HORRIBLE and it didn’t even help me. I do still wonder if a slow chronic tooth infection could be behind this as well. I did notice some relief after 2 implants replaced root canals. I have one more to go.

I also noticed that my arthritis pain and my knee pain were virtually non existent while taking paxlovid. A few days after finishing the COVID treatment I started having pain again.

I saw the post on contacting Pfizer and called them. I answered some questions and hopefully they will call me back since I would very much like to talk with them about this.